The Super Mario Bros. Movie Breaks More Box Office Records Around The World

We love some plumber action down here 🤠

People take their entire families to see it...and families in Mexico are BIG. I for one, my girlfriend, and all my nieces with their parents saw it two times already, once in English 2D and once again in Spanish "4DX". We required an entire row of seats.

@Yomerodes that sounds lovely. I took my kids to the drive in, and that was an Army with 7 of us. Good times. The 4 year old is going to remember that one.

And that’s counting that ticket prices over here are quite cheap compared to other countries … meaning that people are flocking to see the movie

I live in Mexico. I already went with 6 other family members 4 times to watch the movie.

Looks like Mexico is hooked on the brothers.
...I’m shutting up now.

I did just watch it finally this past weekend. It was the 2nd time for my niece and nephew.

Too bad April did not get any GB, GBC, nor GBA additions to NSO. GB Donkey Kong would complement the movie nicely.

It’s a great family experience, I went with my wife, our two kids, two nephews and a niece! My brother took his four kids and they all loved it. I’m in Northern Ireland BTW, not Mexico 😅

It was always gonna be this way as long as it was a fan service movie and it totally is. Delivered on every level and hit the sweet spot for old and young alike. Genius work really.

Keep climbing, Mario....

This movie is truly a gem. The best game to movie adaptation to date. Brought back my whole childhood lol.
Thanks Nintendo and Illulumination.
I hope you guys stay on this route for future movies.
This is a company i can trust with a Smashbros title.
And i have to say, prat did a good job voicing him.

This Mario movie train is unstoppable, hope this becomes the highest grossing animation feature if all time.

That is because the brilliant people of Mexico are AWESOME haha. (I love Mexico!) The film is absolutely brilliant
PS SKY Movies in UK have been advertising on UK TV that the movie will be released to stream and purchase digitally this month (May!) suprised at that when it is still riding so high at the cinema in UK?! I hope they keep it exclusive to cinema for a little longer as they have struggled a lot....Mario saved the gaming industry in 1985 and now is saving the cinema industry in 2023 too, he really IS a super hero

Charliegirl been real quiet ever since this movie has been breaking records. Lmaoooo
Watched the movie, was amazing, I had multiple genuine smiles throughout several scenes.
10/10

@Arkay,

Yes I have noticed that too, bet they are not at the cinema today, watching Guardians of the Galaxy 3...

@EriXz

let's keep it safe for work please.

Nintendo really understands their audience and players. They know we just want pure fun in such movies and games and deliver.

@Olmectron
4 times!!! Amazing!

@Toads-Friend are you sure it wasn’t this one?

https://www.skystore.com/product/mario/9906f7da-0b6f-4f5f-9990-ae3289384123

@Varkster They said a whole row of seats, not the whole theatre.

What you said could be done back in 2021 when people were still shut down in their houses because of COVID. They offered to rent theatres charging per hour and let you put anything on HDMI. Playing Smash Bros. on those screens was great.

Imagine if this will become the most successful animated film of all time. Maybe it will inspire other companies to go the same route.

Congratulations. People around the world have good taste. It would be fun to see the movie in all languages available.

Good that it's doing well in Mexico. It's just such a shame that based on exchange rates, it's not a huge dent in American dollars.

I mean, 1.391 million pesos equals $77,603.89 US

Unless you are saying the revenue is actually $1.391 million US in pesos - which would actually come to 24,932,783.65 pesos.

Of that Mexican revenue, I contributed about 300 pesos for going with my best friend, her nephew and her sister.
I'd contribute another 150 pesos if I could have a chance to go with my other best friend. Hopefully we can go before it stops playing, but her schedule never agrees with mine.

México lindo y querido!

@HammerGalladeBro my tickets cost roughly 1800 pesos converted from USD for the same amount of people - for a noon matinee. That is the biggest reason I'd never see a movie more than once in the theater - least of all this one. 'Twas not worth $100 in any universe.

Nintendo after finding out the movie leaked on Twitter: "We will never financially recover from this."

@GamingFan4Lyf you got your math wrong.

Billions in Mexican Spanish are usually called thousands of millions. This is how they put it here. So, it was really 1.391 billion of pesos if you translate it to how USA people read currency. It seems they just translated some articles without localizing currency naming.

You need to convert then $1,391,000,000 Mexican Pesos to United States Dollars. That's roughly $77,456,958.67 United States Dollars.

Also, if I need to be even more clear. We use commas (,) for separating thousands. And dots (.) for decimals. So, the article's $1*,*391 doesn't mean decimals, but a thousand and 391 millions of pesos, which is 1 billion and 319 millions of pesos, which is what I wrote above.

Speaking with a little more brain and less heart, there is I believe a big factor making this movie a success in countries like mine, our beloved Mexico.

In the past decade and half, not only the rental stores were killed by streaming platforms, but the whole movies in discs market collapsed. How the disc market affects a new theater release like Mario? Piracy, movie piracy was rampant in this country for most of the past 20 years. You could practically buy in any corner store fairly serviceable copies of newly released movies days after the theatre premier, if not before. And they would cost you only a buck or two. Therefore, parents could get their families entertainment giants like Zootopia or Moana for cheap and make everyone at home happy. The practice was so widespread that you would sometimes see public schools or hospitals using those kind movies as officially endorsed entertainment.

But with the pandemic, and the rise of smart tvs, people started to forget discs. Too much clutter you see, why get those pieces of plastic or hook/move/repair your old DVD/blu-ray to give your child entertainment when they can view the same old repeats of Peppa Pig Spiderman or Paw Patrol again and again. And with that we have a market with no easy access to pirate movies, with children that spend two years growing in a world in which the regular state of entertainment is to see a movie like Encanto one...two...three times and many more just because they love "No se habla de Bruno".

And the result is this. Kids like the movie, they want to see it again...and again...and again. Ticket prices are less of a hassle than searching for a serviceable copy of the movie in the web that will likely be taken down in a few hours or days, not to mention hooking the smartphone to the TV, they just don't bother and instead go to the cinema to see it...one...two...and many more times just because they love "Peaches Peaches..."

@Olmectron Ah, very good. Well then I stand corrected. I will keep the original comment for context.

Thanks for that! 👍

@GamingFan4Lyf Don't worry. The article sure reads wrong because they don't translate to say actual billions. Or even better, they should have simply put the amount in USD equivalent already.

@Arkay totally true lol

Proud of you my Mexican amigos.

Hopefully this will shut that original Luigi actor up since this movie aired in Mexico in Spanish dubbed so he should not had any complain right now.

@Serpenterror huh and what did the luigi voice actor say that needs shutting up?

@Eel not voice actor, actor from the 1993 live action @serpenterror meant. He meant John leguizamo, who complained that the new Mario movie did not have any diversity in its casting and he was boycotting it.

@Themagusx1 huh. This would be a weird counterpoint to that, since technically that would make any and every piece of media that has been dubbed to different languages “diverse”.

Like, it’s a given fact that movies dubbed to different languages will be dubbed using different people.

As a bit of a contradicting fun fact, for The Lorax, Danny DeVito voiced his character in Spanish too (and a few other languages as well!). He did it without being a fluent speaker by reading phonetical translations, which gives him a fairly unique sound.

@Eel Four sure. I was just clarifying what serpenterror. Never knew that about Danny Devito though. Pretty cool.

I hope Charles Martinet is getting some sweet residuals seeing as he's in multiple language versions of the film. He definitely deserves it.

With the ticket prices these days it's not really hard to break every record though. Doesn't say that much anymore. Glad to see it doing good, proves that even game movies can be great if they put enough love in it.

Good for them making money, shame it’s a bang average film!

What can I say, we like fun movies.

But, Madre mía, that’s a lot of people going to the cinema.

Oh my, how is this possible when all critics say the movie sucks? Almost as if this is a subjective matter.

@Joriss The movie has 59% on rotten tomatoes. 59% of the critics liked the movie. If all of them said it sucked, it would be at 0%.

@BTB20 I think you need to replace your sarcasm radar.

Speaking of which some very good 16gb torrents have appeared on RARBG.....

@Yomerodes I honestly thought this could be the reason. I am in the U.S but every Mexican American I know has like 300000000000 people in their family haha.

@Arkay yes she does lol 😂

Congratulations! I wonder when the movie will be released on physical media?

Is it me, or does anyone else want an animated crossover film between Star Fox and Star Trek: Voyager? I ask this because in their promotional material for Lylat Wars (Star Fox 64) back in 1997, THE Games Ltd (Nintendo's UK distributer at the time) claimed that the game was set in the Delta Quadrant.

No surprise, Mario is easily a HUGE name in Mexico, much like in Japan, so the movie pulling in huge numbers in Mexico is absolutely not a surprise to me.