The first weekend of The Super Mario Bros. Movie's release will break the box office record for all movies ever. Since the infamous failure of the 1993 film Super Mario Bros., which featured Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo as Mario and Luigi, Hollywood has shied away from translating the Mario games into feature films. In contrast, the new film featuring Chris Pratt as Mario, Charlie Day as Luigi, Anya Taylor-Joy as Peach, and Jack Black as Bowser released in theaters today thanks to a collaboration between Illumination Entertainment and Nintendo.
Deadline reports that the actors of the Super Mario Bros. Movie will be celebrating this weekend. The picture has already made more than $160 million overseas, putting it on track for a massive global total of $300 million by the end of the weekend. The final tally won't be known until the end of the week, but early estimates put the film's domestic gross at at $40 million, which would be 15 times more than the 1993 original's $20 million.
Movies based on video games have had some successes, such as 2001's Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and the Resident Evil franchise, but the genre has also had its fair share of flops. Attempts to adapt video games into live-action films have typically been received with critical skepticism and lackluster box office results. But things have started to turn around in recent years.
One of the genre's major hits in 2020 was Sonic the Hedgehog. The audience loved it, and it ended up becoming the third highest-grossing movie of the year. As a result, additional video game adaptations, such as Paramount+'s Halo series (which has been renewed for a second season) and 2022's No. 14 highest-grossing picture Uncharted, were able to find success in the marketplace.
The popular video game adaption has been brought forward by 2023 even farther. The post-apocalyptic HBO series The Last of Us began things out in January, and it quickly surpassed the audience of the Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon in terms of total viewers. Here comes The Super Mario Bros. Movie with these flashy musical sequences to prove that the genre is here to stay.
Deadline reports that the actors of the Super Mario Bros. Movie will be celebrating this weekend. The picture has already made more than $160 million overseas, putting it on track for a massive global total of $300 million by the end of the weekend. The final tally won't be known until the end of the week, but early estimates put the film's domestic gross at at $40 million, which would be 15 times more than the 1993 original's $20 million.
Movies based on video games have had some successes, such as 2001's Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and the Resident Evil franchise, but the genre has also had its fair share of flops. Attempts to adapt video games into live-action films have typically been received with critical skepticism and lackluster box office results. But things have started to turn around in recent years.
One of the genre's major hits in 2020 was Sonic the Hedgehog. The audience loved it, and it ended up becoming the third highest-grossing movie of the year. As a result, additional video game adaptations, such as Paramount+'s Halo series (which has been renewed for a second season) and 2022's No. 14 highest-grossing picture Uncharted, were able to find success in the marketplace.
The popular video game adaption has been brought forward by 2023 even farther. The post-apocalyptic HBO series The Last of Us began things out in January, and it quickly surpassed the audience of the Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon in terms of total viewers. Here comes The Super Mario Bros. Movie with these flashy musical sequences to prove that the genre is here to stay.
