The adventures of Nintendo’s famous plumber in overalls had accumulated $ 146 million in revenue in the United States in its first weekend of operation. Some three weeks later the Super Mario Bros. the film broke the 2023 theatrical attendance record by surpassing the billion dollar mark.
With this tremendous success, this American-Japanese production directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic relegates Frozen 2 (2019) to second position.
The icing on the cake, this worldwide success is also successful in France. Super Mario Bros. the film made the strongest start in France in 2023 ahead of, cocorico oblige, a purely Franco-French creation Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Empire.
Super Mario Bros. le film de Aaron Horvath et Michael Jelenic, en 2023
The founder of the Illumination studio, Chris Meledandri, confided two weeks ago that Super Mario. the film was, in a way, abolishing “The border between cinema and video games”. For him, we were at the dawn of a new era: “We are starting to see games with such powerful real-time rendering that the visual quality of the games is simply astounding”. This new world revenue record should confirm his judgment.
