'The Super Mario Bros. Movie' crosses $1 billion mark - Check what this movie is about

The Super Mario Bros. Movie crossed the $1 billion mark on Sunday. The video game-based film earned an estimated $40 million for the Friday-through-Sunday period in the United States and Canada for a domestic total so far of $490 million, industry Watcher Exhibitor Relations reported.

The overseas earnings are now at $532 million, and its accumulated global total has hit $1.02 billion. The Super Mario Bros. Movie is the biggest entertainment release of 2023

About Super Mario Bros

The Super Mario games are set primarily in the fictional Mushroom Kingdom, typically with Mario as the player character. He is usually joined by his brother, Luigi, and often by other members of the Mario cast. As platform games, they involve the player character running and jumping across platforms and atop enemies in themed levels. The games have simple plots, typically with Mario and Luigi rescuing the kidnapped Princess Peach from the primary antagonist, Bowser. The first game in the series, Super Mario Bros., was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1985.

About Super Mario movie

The Super Mario Bros. Movie is a computer-animated adventure film based on Nintendo's Mario video game franchise. Produced by Universal Pictures, Illumination, and Nintendo, and distributed by Universal, the film was directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic and written by Matthew Fogel.

About Super Mario Bros. Movie voice cast

The ensemble voice cast includes Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key, Seth Rogen, and Fred Armisen. The film features an origin story for the brothers Mario and Luigi, Italian-American plumbers who are transported to an alternate world and become entangled in a battle between the Mushroom Kingdom, led by Princess Peach, and the Koopas, led by Bowser.