'Super Mario Bros. Movie' set to top $1 billion at box office
Chris Pratt, Jack Black and Anya Taylor-Joy voice Nintendo video game characters in movie adaptation
"The Super Mario Bros. Movie" continues to boom in theaters as the animated movie is slated to top $1 billion at the global box office.
The movie adaptation of the popular Nintendo video game earned a massive $92.5 million from its second weekend premiere.
The film had the seventh-biggest second weekend premiere of all time, according to Comscore via The Hollywood Reporter.
With its impressive box office numbers, "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" is heading to the billion-dollar worldwide box office club.
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Chris Pratt voices Mario, while Anya Taylor-Joy plays the Princess Peach character. (Universal Studios / Fox News)
"The Super Mario Bros. Movie’s" billion-dollar mark will rank the film fourth behind "Avatar: The Way of Water" ($2.31 billion), "Spider-Man: No Way Home" ($1.92 billion) and "Top Gun: Maverick" ($1.49 billion).
Major Hollywood films that have grossed more than $1 billion include "Frozen II" ($1.45 billion), "Frozen" ($1.28 billion), "Incredibles 2" ($1.24 billion) and "Minions" ($1.16 billion).
"As Mario continues his amazing cinematic journey, audiences clearly want to go along for the ride, and with an epic second weekend boasting one of the smallest drops for a movie opening with over $100 million domestically, the film is dominating the movie marketplace, redefining the box office potential for a video game movie adaptation and setting the stage for a perfect summer movie season," said Paul Dergarabedian, the senior media analyst for Comscore.
The movie adaptation of the popular Nintendo video game starring Chris Pratt earned a massive $92.5 million in its second weekend premiere. (AP/Getty Images / AP Images)
"Mario Bros." massive success smashed records for video game adaptations, passing "Warcraft’s" $210 million, and animated films, making it the biggest opening of 2023 and the second-biggest three-day domestic animated opening behind "Finding Dory" since its April 5 release.
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Pratt voices Mario, while Charlie Day plays his sidekick Luigi, Anya Taylor-Joy is Princess Peach and Jack Black is the character Bowser.
Sebastian Maniscalco; Jack Black; Seth Rogen; Charlie Day; Anya Taylor-Joy; Chris Meledandri, CEO of Illumination; Chris Pratt; and Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto attend a special screening of Universal Pictures' "The Super Mario Bros. Movie." (Getty Images / Getty Images)
"This partnership between Nintendo and Illumination is just incredible and led to this extraordinary performance," said Jim Orr, Universal's president of domestic distribution.
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Dergarabedian previously said the release date was "perfect" and gave audiences enough time to gear up for Pratt in "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3," which opens May 5.
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FOX Business' Tracy Wright contributed to this report.