‘Super Mario Bros.’ Is Decade’s First $1 Billion Animated Hit, Dwarfs Box Office Newcomers
thewrap.comAs has been the case since the start of April, Universal/Illumination’s “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” has lapped the box office competition, becoming the first animated film of the 2020s to gross $1 billion worldwide while competitors search for vastly smaller opening weekends among niche audiences. \Another strong hold of just a 33% drop has given the film a fourth weekend total of $40 million domestic and $108 million worldwide, pushing the film’s overall totals to $490 million domestic and $1.02 billion global.
In the coming week, “Mario” will join “The Incredibles 2” and the “Lion King” remake as just the third animated film to gross over $500 million domestic.
With approximately $130 million more, it will pass the $1.15 billion of “Minions” to become Illumination’s highest grossing film ever.
In second is Warner Bros./New Line’s “Evil Dead Rise,” which is holding respectably with a $12.2 million second weekend to give the horror film a 10-day total of $44.4 million.
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