Super Mario Bros. The Movie : the success of 2023
The success of Super Mario Bros. The Movie It was impressive. Released in theaters in 2023 (April 5 in France and April 7 in the United States), the animated film exceeded expectations. Naturally, given the importance of the video game license, we suspected that a large audience would await this adaptation with curiosity (or fear). However, from there to come and compete Frozen 2the current biggest hit of all time for an animated film, we wouldn’t necessarily have bet on it. However, that’s exactly what happened since, at the time of its release, Super Mario Bros. The Movie He has made the best box office start for an animated filmso ahead of the Disney feature film.
The famous plumber has thus accumulated 377 million dollars in revenue in its first weekend of operation. This has allowed Illumination, Nintendo and Universal to immediately earn their $100 million investment (including the film’s budget but not the marketing cost). But the film obviously didn’t stop there. After 10 days of activity, Super Mario Bros. the movie had already grossed $500 million worldwide. Enough to become the most profitable adaptation of a video gameespecially before Detective Pikachu and Sonic.
It must have been hard to miss Mario, who in this adventure discovers the Mushroom Kingdom and agrees to help Princess Peach fight Bowser, determined to expand his territory. After several weeks, Super Mario Bros. THE the film concluded its run with 1.361 billion dollars raised worldwide. Which currently puts it at #16 on the box office, under $100 million. Frozen 2 ($1.453 billion). And of these figures, a good part comes from the French market, since the feature film also impressed 7.3 million entries. It was also, for us, the biggest success of 2023, well ahead Barbie (6 million) and Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Kingdom (4.6 million).
A surefire success for Netflix?
There is therefore no doubt that the addition of Super Mario Bros. The Movie in the Netflix catalog will further strengthen the popularity of the animated film. The streaming platform put the film online on July 5 at midnight. Although we found the proposal funny but anecdotal, it remains an effective family film which is suitable for both adults and children. This time we will not be surprised to see it at the top of the top 10 films of the moment, as was the case of Sonic last May.
As a reminder, one of the great qualities of Super Mario Bros. The Movie comes from his dubbing. At least in French. Because if Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day or even Jack Black lent their voices to the original version, in France it was not the movie stars who did it, but professional voice actors such as Pierre Tessier, Benoït Du Pac, Audrey Sourdive, Jérémie Covillault and Emmanuel Garijo. A choice applauded abroad.
Source: Cine Serie
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