SUPER BOYS ICE BROS MOVIE
This means a wider potential audience than a movie based on Sonic or any other franchise. Mario has wide appeal across multiple generations of gamers, young and old, thanks to an endless run of mostly excellent games. To this day, he remains Nintendo's main mascot, from the Super Mario Bros games to Mario Kart to Super Smash Bros. The plucky plumber has been at the heart of gaming since the 1980s, making his debut (under the name Jump Man) in the 1981 hit arcade game Donkey Kong. But there surely cannot be a household anywhere in the game-playing world that hasn't heard of Mario. Sure, kids today are more likely to be immersed in Fortnite or Roblox. So, why has this big-screen outing in the Mushroom Kingdom done so well?įirst and foremost, Mario is without question the most recognizable face in gaming. Mario has always been great at grabbing gold coins, and his run at the Golden Week box office is only just getting started. In the Japanese version, the same roles are played by acclaimed voice actors Mamoru Miyano, Kenta Miyake, and Arisa Shida. The English voice cast includes big-name stars such as Chris Pratt as Mario, Jack Black as Bowser, and Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach. Many theatres outside of the major cities seem to have prioritized the Japanese dubbed version over the subtitled English version. The movie has opened extremely wide, with theatres across the nation showing it on multiple screens, including their most expensive premium IMAX 3D screens, or with hydraulic moving seats in MX4D. But while Conan in particular is still holding on to some of those screens, Mario now has the lion's share. 3, premium cinema screens across Japan are stretched a little thin. It has continued to draw huge audiences ever since.īetween Conan, Mario, and the upcoming May 3 release of Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. The latest Detective Conan movie took double at around $29 million USD in its opening weekend in mid-April. That said, considering that Mario is originally a Japanese character, its early takings paled in comparison with another Japanese kids' movie. (© 2023 Nintendo and Universal Studios) Grabbing the Golden Coins It is the biggest Hollywood movie opening since the pandemic began, putting it ahead of Frozen 2's opening here, which was itself considered a major success. According to early figures published by IMDb, the movie took $14.3 million USD in its opening weekend.
Judging from the first few days, it's paying off. This is when families have around a week off work and school - and plenty of time to don their Tanooki Suits for a trip to the cinema. Movie's release was timed to coincide with the Golden Week holidays. As if taking a shortcut through a Warp Pipe, it's already the No 15 highest-grossing animated film of all time.Īnd now, at last, Mario has come home. Movie was running and jumping into the billion-dollar club - a feat managed by only around 50 films to date, and only 5 since the pandemic began. By the time it opened here in Japan on April 28 (yes, we got it last), The Super Mario Bros.
It remained at No 1 in the US for at least three weeks. It quickly surpassed expectations at the box office, raking in an astonishing $204.6 million USD in the United States over its opening long weekend and $377 million USD globally. The movie opened in early April in most markets around the world.
It really didn't take Mario long to get there. Produced by "Minions" studio Illumination in close collaboration with Nintendo and Mario creator Miyamoto, this animated film will bring gaming's most famous mascot to the big screen for the first time in 30 years - and the trailers so far look fantastic. There is no doubt that Sonic 2's records will be instantly shattered by the April 2023 release of "The Super Mario Bros. In my 2023 predictions article for JAPAN Forward, I predicted that The Super Mario Bros. The previous record was set in 2022 by Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Movie had become the highest-grossing videogame movie adaptation of all time. Even before it opened in Japan, The Super Mario Bros.
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