Mario Movie Surpasses Disney's Animated Hit Frozen At The Box Office

To think a video game movie would come this far! And it’s Mario! Sniff it beautiful!

Question : Have you contributed to the Mario Movie's box office success?

Me : Of course. I have watched Super Mario Bros movie for four time at my local cinema XXI last month.

That's pretty sad. I love Mario, probably my second favorite videogame franchise, but that movie was straight dog water. I'd rather watch the live action Mario movie, it was a bad adaption but at least it was entertaining. Frozen is quite good even if people think it's overrated.

Lion King 2019 making 1.6 billion just reminded me that their “remakes of classics” actually made serious money of being consistently over a billion.

It’s just the current Little Mermaid one [and Mulan of course] that is the outlier and from what I’m hearing it deserved that flop.

I think what's amazing about this is how the 70+ year old's with the stings in Hollywood have spent at least 20 years making awful video game adaptations, thinking that all the IPs were good for was to fleece the hardcore fans that will pay for anything associated with it.

Then Iron Man happened and that should have been the moment where they realized a lot of what used to be niche had moved past pop-culture and was just part of our culture as whole. But the old guard just kept on keeping on, and didn't see the opportunity.

The only thing shocking about a Mario movie making a billion dollars in 2023 is that it didn't make a billion dollars in 2013.

@HeadPirate

I always got the impression that it was Nintendo that was relcutant to make another Mario movie after the 1993 disaster.

Really enjoyed this one, and hope we get sequels.

Impressive! Surpassing Frozen is no small feat.

I still haven't watched it, but now that it's available in some digital formats, I'll likely watch it with the family next time we get together.

Suck it Disney.

That's a very impressive milestone and accomplishment, a video game adaptation has surpassed $1 billion. Critics underestimated the appeal of Super Mario!

So proud 🥹 the movie deserved all the success!

@Anti-Matter Yep! I watched the film on April 26.

@Omi-bros1

did you work on the movie?

@Dev9417

Mario surpassed Mickey Mouse in terms of recognisability (if that is a word) since Mario Bros. 3, so it's long overdue really.

@Arawn93
Flop? I thought it was doing fairly well

Frozen 2 and the Lion King remake are the two highest grossing animated films of all time? Good lord.

@Purgatorium

You can thank the kiddies and the parents for Frozen 2's success, actually for the franchise overall. Also, Frozen 3 is coming and it will be just as huge at the box office whether you like it or not.

Compare the ticket from now with what you payed in 2013 and you know why they broke that record.

@Arawn93 I don't really care about The Little Mermaid or Disney's live action remakes in general, but how can you call it a flop? It has been out for a week and has already made 200 million $ world-wide.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie is the #16 biggest blockbuster animated film of all-time at the North American box office adjusted for inflation (i.e. # of tickets sold).

It may not reach #15, 1955's Lady and the Tramp by the end of its run.

SMB is the 4th-biggest post-pandemic movie at the North American box office (after Spider-Man: No Way Home, Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar: The Way of Water).

Now, it won't reach Frozen II, but I've been looking at all the numbers, and there's actually a chance The Super Mario Bros. Movie could climb to become the 15th highest grossing movie of any kind of all time when its time in the box office finally ends, surpassing Black Panther's worldwide box office gross of $1,347,280,838--that's adding another roughly 10-15 million for America, roughly 10-15 million for the rest of the world other than Japan, and another roughly 20-30 million min for Japan, which is about as high as the movie overall can realistically get--and by God would that be an achievement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films

PS. To anyone bringing it up, most people don't give a crap about adjusted for inflation as none of the other movies on the same list have been adjusted for inflation either. If you do account for inflation, most of the movies we consider hits today wouldn't even make the top 100. And, regardless, it's a totally different world now in so many ways, from almost everything about the cinema experience to how we consume movies outside of that and the like, so just assuming inflation is the only metric that truly matters is utterly ridiculous and very ignorant. This not adjusted for inflation list is the list everyone is paying attention to, which means that's the one that matters to most people when judging the success of these movies beyond their own personal opinions, and on that list The Super Mario Bros. Movie is utterly smashing it.

If you think telling someone that Gone with the Wind or whatever decades-old movie did better than The Super Mario Bros. Movie when adjusted for inflation, you are a plonker. When adjusted for inflation, Gone with the Wind beats every single other movie ever made. How ashamed we should all be of modern cinema and how big a failure it is that not a single movie could beat a movie from a bazillion years ago when we couldn't even watch films in colour, not even Avatar: The Way of Water. So, let's not even bother considering how well modern movies are doing today, they're almost all relative flops by that standard. And in terms of animation, it's just embarrassing how bad 99.99% of them have done then and how low they would appear on such a list, so let's not even talk about animation at all.

No, it's really not that simple at all.

@countzero The current numbers when compared to so many other movies in a similar situation suggest it's going to lose money at the box office worldwide or maybe roughly break even, which would be a major flop, especially for a tentpole Disney movie:

https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Super-Mario-Bros-Movie-The-(2022)/Frozen-II-(2019)/Incredibles-2/Lion-King-The-(Live-Action)-(2019)/Little-Mermaid-The-(2023)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Super-Mario-Bros-Movie-The-(2022)/Aladdin-(2019)/Beauty-and-the-Beast-(2017)/Lion-King-The-(Live-Action)-(2019)/Alice-in-Wonderland-(2010)/Little-Mermaid-The-(2023)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

So, unless something kinda miraculous happens in the next week or two--very unlikely--it is what it is.

That's how people can call it a flop.

@Arawn93 It's a bit comparing apples to oranges though as Mulan was never released in theatres due to the pandemic.

Four of the remakes have grossed over a billion worldwide while some others were not even close. Dumbo only grossed 350M.

Also, Aladdin opened with similar box office numbers as The Little Mermaid and went on to gross over a billion worldwide, so if word-of-mouth is strong, it could have a similar showing.

@RedXIII Aladdin did waaay better internationally than The Little Mermaid is tracking to do based on this first week. Without the international market it will almost certainly flop or thereabouts. The numbers are above, so do some basic research of your own and you will see beyond the narrative the mainstream media is currently trying to push.

@Phostachio You are free to like whatever you like, but you are completely and utterly ignorant of what constitutes a good [animated, kids and family] movie if that's what you believe about The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

Literally, you don't understand what good cgi art and animation is, you don't understand what good film music is, you don't understand what good character design and world building is, you don't understand what good voice acting is, you don't understand what good action is, you don't understand what simple but good storytelling for the target audience is, you don't understand what good fan service is, you don't understand what good Easter egg inclusion is, you don't understand what a good runtime for the target audience is, you don't understand what good tone for the target audience is, you don't understand composition, you don't understand framing, you don't understand lighting, you don't understand the line of action, you don't understand colour theory, you don't understand timing, you don't understand editing, you don't understand performance, you don't understand foreshadowing, you don't understand humor, suspense, drama, action, mystory, etc.

My 70 year old mum, who walked away with a huge smile on her face after watching this movie, obviously understands most of that stuff better than you.

TLK19 isn't even counted in the lead by Disney themselves since they like to view and promote it as a separate cinematographic entity from animation AND live action. In some senses, its reportedly involved tech makes it sound like a much more literal "video game movie" than Mario itself!😆

As for the animated rankings, I'm as big a Frozen nerd as they come but no box office record was ever worth the salt. Original TLK, the first in my all-time best movie pantheon which would come to include Frozen dilogy and a bunch of others (including the diamonds that didn't make much of a box office splash at all), was once the top grosser as well... until it wasn't - but none of the higher grossing movies in the following years have diminished its offerings. Having sat on top for several years is already material enough for a family album, so to speak. Now, Mario I don't expect to join the ranks of my all-time faves (even the same studio's Sing movies never did, and I rank them very high overall) but it deserves any record it can set [for its own while] regardless of my attitude.

That does remind me i need to see the
Little mermaid.

Disney's horrible remakes made money on name and nostalgia alone. Are little kids seriously choosing to rewatch them though?

@RetroGames No need to be an ass, noticed how I said "could"... nowhere did I say it is bound to do to exact same numbers, just the ballpark of the opening weekend numbers at the box office numbers were fairly comparable. (214.7 million vs. 185 million.)

@Phostachio Nice bait. I love fishermans.

@RedXIII And all I basically said was go actually look at some of the data and get informed about what the truth is so what you say is in line with the facts rather than some misguided fiction.

@RetroGames and you have zero idea how much research I've done or what sources I've looked at, when all I mentioned were how the opening weekends were comparable ... I have zero investment in any of these movies, was merely stating a fact.

@RedXIII Given what you said, I know you didn't do any actual research on The Little Mermaid 2023's box office stats and the comparisons with other similar movies before making your comment, or else you would have said something more accurate and in line with reality around how well it's likely to do, or not as the case is looking very likely indeed. You likely saw some shill mainstream media article and regurgitated the spoon-fed narrative they want you to believe and indeed spread. Again though, the graphs and stats are all posted above for you and anyone else to check out for yourselves and learn the real facts. Then maybe you and anyone else can speak to those instead of the headlines and "news" articles posted by people who did roughly the same amount of work as you before posting their leading "news" pieces.

@RetroGames The comment I was replying to said it was a flop. I looked at the opening box office numbers as I hadn't seen what the movie had grossed, so I was curious if it had indeed flopped (if BoxOfficeMojo is a shill mainstream media source, please let me know.) Because the numbers were fairly comparable to Aladdin, I said, this "could" have a similar showing. Nowhere did I say The Little Mermaid is going to make a billion dollars.

@RedXIII It's around the same as Aladdin in America only. In the rest of the world it is far behind what Aladdin was at during the same time and tracking worse. I assume you're not one of those people who think only America matters here. By those standards it is not off to a good start at all. That's the truth here. What you said pushes a false narrative that only encourages spreading a bunch of gibberish. The movie is on track to flop or maybe break even if it's lucky, which would be a huge fail for a Disney flagship movie, especially one where they've been pushing "the message" so hard too. The Little Mermaid looks like it's going to sink. That's the story here.

@Arawn93 You're wrong. Only four of the remakes has beaten the 1B mark. TLM also beat Aladdin's opening numbers in the US. It's going to do just fine.

@Fiskern No, you are wrong. It's looking like it's going to lose money or break even if it's lucky based on all the current numbers and graphs, which I've already posted above. If it's very lucky it might just turn a tiny profit. The first two scenarios are undeniable flops for Disney, and the last one is a relative flop too, but just most people won't get that.

Here they are again for you:

https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Super-Mario-Bros-Movie-The-(2022)/Frozen-II-(2019)/Incredibles-2/Lion-King-The-(Live-Action)-(2019)/Little-Mermaid-The-(2023)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Super-Mario-Bros-Movie-The-(2022)/Aladdin-(2019)/Beauty-and-the-Beast-(2017)/Lion-King-The-(Live-Action)-(2019)/Alice-in-Wonderland-(2010)/Little-Mermaid-The-(2023)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

Those show only the domestic daily figures, so actually go do some reading and clicking on some of the other tabs and stuff to get an idea of just how much trouble it's currently in internationally.

And then we can all start telling the real story here.

@RedXIII Nowhere was I pushing a narrative, and nowhere did I suggest there is no chance of it flopping. It could flop. Much like it could do better than expected if word-of-mouth is strong.

@RedXIII It could do anything. Everything right now is saying it will either flop or roughly break even if it's lucky. Both are flops by Disney's standards. That's the story here.

@RetroGames Exactly, so I don't know why you felt the need to come at me so hard when nothing on my stance was absolute.

@RedXIII I'm coming at you simply with the truth (and the data to back it up). Trying to make sure we're not all [directly/indirectly/intentionally/unintentionally] pushing misleading and misguided narratives based on ignorance and/or simply drinking the Kool-Aid is a good thing as far as I'm concerned. It's not my fault if that makes you want to run into a safe space or whatever.

@RedXIII Because I found it odd I left one comment that it could do better than projected (keyword: could) due to positive word-of-mouth, and you took it personal enough to suggest I did zero research and was a mainstream media zombie and drinking Kool-AId and feeding a narrative. I really could care less if this movie flops or not.

@RedXIII There's nothing to get over, I have told you I don't care.

@Arawn93 Cinderella, Dumbo and The Jungle Book also made below a billion.

@Arawn93
I watched Little Mermaid live action movie last Sunday and it was quite good in my opinion.
I will watch again next two weeks.

@Link-Hero I didn't claim it was better, but it was definitely more entertaining and at least they had some kind of vision. The guys at illumination took Mario and said "You know that I Need A Hero song from Shrek 2 20 years ago? Let's do that but worse!" So uninspired. At least it looked nice.

Well deserved Frozen is such overrated film wasn't even good one at that. I'm happy Mario movie did well.

Well deserved.
I understand what some people say about the plot, it feels simplistic compared to other animation movies, but that´s the pourpose of this film: to be something entertaining to watch.
I personally loved it. It was a perfect movie for family fun and great for fans who could find references everywhere.
A lot of love and care about the source material was put in this movie. The voice cast, musicians and effects directors did a great job and The Super Mario Bros Movie really deserves all the success.

I was surprised at how good it was….even tho the plot was a little contrived, it seemed to somehow work. It was a nice tribute to the series. Very happy for Nintendo that this worked out….

Well deserved and maybe it could teach filmmakers that fun movies that are just fun movies are something people still prefer to see over hamfisted messages or flimsy set ups to twelve other movies.

Excellent. It's a fun film, so I'm glad moviegoers are voting with their money on it.

Just in case some people don't believe me when I say The Little Mermaid 2023 is looking like it's on track to flop, here's someone else saying the same thing and quoting from mainstream media who are now also starting to get with the program and report the real truth too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2e1xiIQgQc

And it's well and truly earned this kind of result as far as I'm concerned based on everything I know about it and have seen and heard with my own eyes and ears thus far. It's not the kind of soulless, unauthentic, pale imitation, cash-grab movie we should be rewarding Disney for.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie on the other hand is a triumph across the board and deserves every single penny and bit of praise it gets as far as I'm concerned. These are the kinds of beautiful, joyful, reverent, magical and authentic movies I want to see much more of again in modern times, from Disney and Pixar too.

Good on Nintendo and Illumination for doing things the right way, and may the money continue to pour in if they absolutely deliver like this again going forward.

@RedXIII It’s a flop because it’s heavily underperforming everywhere else that isn’t the US. The US can’t carry this film alone with that production + marketing budget. Aladdin and the other billion dollar live action remakes did much better in comparison internationally. Low hundred million range GLOBALLY is not a success in any stretch of the imagination when that is just the production budget nevermind marketing.

Also that film has been having terrible word of mouth since it released and soon it’s gonna have actual fresh competition in box office like Spiderverse 2 so don’t expect it to have any noteworthy legs even in the US.

The reason why the little of mermaid is flopping is because Disney and almost every studio makes movies based on checkboxes. Everything needs to be checked so nobody's feelings get hurt or that they don't feel not included/represented. If you remake a movie, keep the characters as they are. For the rest create New memorable characters and stories, and create new classics.
One of the reasons Mario is doing this great is because it isn't forcing opinions on anyone, it's just a basic story everyone can enjoy.

@BTB20 Cinderella had a significantly less budget that wasn’t even over 100 million [unlike Little Mermaid] so even a more modest 500 million range box office made it so it wasn’t a flop in any stretch of the imagination.

Dumbo estimated to barely broke even when you include marketing at best so depends on what you consider as a flop. They didn’t lose money, but they didn’t get much money that it’s debatable it was worth the time to begin with over anything else. This is the best case scenario Disney is hoping Little Mermaid ends up landing at which is still terrible. Little Mermaid landing in Dumbo territory.

Jungle Book was just shy of making the billion club and was on a sub 200M production budget. That wasn’t a flop in any stretch of the imagination.

The main reason why Little Mermaid is already being written off as a flop [this isn’t some lone fringe hot take from me. Just Google around. Even the regular shiller YTers for that movie are praying this movie can at least crawl to break even] is because it had a notable higher then average 250 Million production budget [they haven’t still crossed that as LM is barely over 200M atm] nevermind the higher then average marketing budget that they still need to cross to break even.

It’s obvious Disney was hoping for this to be another billion dollar club or at the very least be a Jungle Book scenario and just fall short, but still get decent profit.

Keep in mind Little Mermaid launched on a holiday weekend with practically no fresh competition in the theatre so even that best case scenario wasn’t enough for US to single handily carry the film. Other big movies are about to come out too like Spiderverse 2 which kills any chance of miracle legs.

On the bright side I don’t see this flopping as bad as Mulan did. Significantly less revenue compared to production budget + marketing which wasn’t surprising considering the amount of negative controversy that film got before it even released. It made the controversy Little Mermaid got look like a minor inconvenience in comparison. So there is at least that if you want to huff up some copium with the other hopefuls.

The success of this movie would almost guarantee that we'll see a sequel down the line. I'll be looking forward to whatever film Nintendo does next.

@RetroGames
I thought Little Mermaid live action was quite good in my opinion.
I watched the movie last Sunday and I will watch again next two weeks.

Come on everyone let’s give it one more push to make it number 1!

@Anti-Matter Good for you.

My opinion is that in a vacuum the 2023 live-action The Little Mermaid might be considered an okay movie in its own right, if nothing special. In this reality where the brilliant original film already exists though, this live-action version is a soulless, drab, bloated, unauthentic, "the message" pushing, pale imitation cash-grab that does nothing to justify its reason for existing and just sucks people's attention away from the original movie that [still] actually deserves all the love for everything it did first and basically better in pretty much every single way. The original is the movie that was created with genuine passion and reverence and authenticity and respect for the people paying their hard-earned money to see it. The original is an animated masterpiece. The 2023 live-action remake is grey fluff.

I want The Little Mermaid 2023 to flop with an absolute passion, and thank God it's on perfect track to do exactly that.

@Greatluigi It's never going to reach number 1. It just has too far to climb to make that much more money in the time left at the box office and with where the current daily and weekly figures are at now. But your passion and enthusiasm for this awesome movie is great to see.

The movie deserves being successful. Waiting for the next hit will be sweet.

@RetroGames
I quite enjoyed the changes in Little Mermaid live action movie from multi ethnics Ariel's sister, Scuttle changed into Gannet bird for more screen time under water, more Carribean environments near of Prince Eric palace, etc despite I admitted there were some changes I thought it was either hit or miss but overall the movie still quite good for me.

Halle Bailey as Ariel was coincidentally part of Seven Seas themed mermaids as the other sisters represent different seas. Ariel was part of Carribean Sea so I think Ariel got dark skinned and dreadlocks hairstyle was very suit as Carribean peoples. I think it was a creative idea to rewrite the story of Little Mermaid.
And remember, Little Mermaid cartoon movie version was also a fractured version of original Little Mermaid so there was a lot of changes added for cartoon version and of course to see some changes again for the live action movie version, it was very natural. I was expecting some good changes despite there were also the changes that made me a little bit disappointed. I'm pretty sure Little Mermaid live action movie will not flop as you thought.
One support again from me, I will buy another movie ticket for Little Mermaid live action movie and watch them again. 😘

Back to topic about Super Mario Bros movie, I gave my support from watching the movie for four times. I think Super Mario Bros movie can reach the highest chart in the future.

lion king is not in anything it's a live action remake....smh

@Anti-Matter Trust me, with a reported production budget of 250 million and a reported marketing budget of 140 million, it needs to make around 780 million just to break even if we accept that worldwide the cinemas take an average of roughly 50% of all the money the movie makes in theatres--and I certainly do--so right now it's statistically and mathematically and factually on course to being a flop unless some unforeseen miracle occurs.

The numbers do not lie:

https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Super-Mario-Bros-Movie-The-(2022)/Aladdin-(2019)/Beauty-and-the-Beast-(2017)/Lion-King-The-(Live-Action)-(2019)/Alice-in-Wonderland-(2010)/Little-Mermaid-The-(2023)#tab=weekend_comparison

Just follow them to their natural conclusion (both the domestic figures shown there and also the international figures that you can click around to find out more about yourself).

Yeah, The Super Mario Bros. Movie is all good whichever way we look at it. And I'm more than happy about that.

@RetroGames

I think the best it could do anymore is to surpass Fallen Kingdom...and I hope it does, I hated that sequel. As for the rest or even Black Panther, the millions needed are just far too many, the last 50 million jump from Incredibles 2 to Frozen 1 took too much time, it is not going to repeat that feat in june, not with the new Spiderman movie taking all the animation/family public space and interest that the Little Mermaid couldn't do.

As for inflation, you take it far too seriously (but going by this topic, so you do many things). Is just another piece of data, there is a reason why the poster of Gone with the Wind is the first thing shown in the webpage you just posted, the fact that it remains the highest grossing film adjusted for inflation is interesting, as is the fact that the Mario movie is the 16 biggest blockbuster in NA adjusted for inflation, or the fact that the Super Mario Bros movie is the highest grossing of ALL TIME in Mexico going by dollar sales (it was tremendously popular, no doubt...but the reported numbers were helped thanks to a particularly weak dollar exchange rate in the past months), or the fact that Kimetsu no Yaiba Mugen Train is the highest grossing anime film ever and was the wroldwide number one hit in 2020 (thanks to that little problem named covid-19), and so and so. Different numbers, different markest, different takes gives us a better picture always, as you are indeed repeting ad nauseum about the Little Mermaid, marrying to a single number or a single chart would never give us the whole picture.

@RetroGames ...what? Haha, you tell me I'm wrong, and then show a lot of arguments against things I never said? Though a quick glance at the comments tells me you have a weird relationship with that movie. Cheers mate.

@RetroGames i know is out topic your comment. But totally agree the movie needs to have the international support or it will flop.

@Martijn87 Also their remake formula is wearing thin. Like the remakes become practically a case study on why the originals were animated to begin with.

I don't get how many people can put up with iconic songs stripped out of musicals despite being vital parts of the narrative, or the musical scenes that remain being lesser due to limitations of the live-action setting. Like remake Prince Ali blatantly stuck in some small area rather than a sprawling city (which animation allows them to have).

I kind of hope Super Mario Bros does take the #1 slot and TLM underperforms because it should showcase that Disney resting on their laurels is not how they should handle their animated franchises.

@Dr_Lugae yeah they need to stop with the live action remakes. In my opinion they hit a new low by making a live action Moana. I really do not understand why they need to remake that movie. It's perfect as it is.

I fully checked out of pop culture in the mid 2010s so I was totally unaware that frozen 2: froze harder was a thing, thanks Mario 👍

@Yomerodes The ongoing stats, graphs, comparisons, trends, etc., on sites like The Numbers and Box Office Mojo show that it's likely The Super Mario Bros. Movie will make roughly another 10-15 million in the US, 10-15 million in the rest of the world excluding Japan, and possibly around 20-30 million in Japan (maybe even more), which would indeed take it up to and potentially just past Black Panther by the end of its run. I think Japan is the real key here and the market most people aren't paying full attention to. So I'm comfortable sticking with that prediction for now.

Again, people are free to do any of the math on this themselves:

https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Super-Mario-Bros-Movie-The-(2022)/Frozen-II-(2019)/Incredibles-2/Lion-King-The-(Live-Action)-(2019)/Little-Mermaid-The-(2023)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Super-Mario-Bros-Movie-The-(2022)/Aladdin-(2019)/Beauty-and-the-Beast-(2017)/Lion-King-The-(Live-Action)-(2019)/Alice-in-Wonderland-(2010)/Little-Mermaid-The-(2023)#tab=weekend_comparison

And some Japan number comparisons:

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl1077838593/weekend/

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl4207182593/weekend/

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl3835986433/weekend/

Also, the numbers in Poland have continued to actually climb from weekend to weekend thus far rather than go down, which is crazy but cool to see, so it could do a little bit better than we might think there too (this was the last market for the movie to release in, so it's a bit behind the other markets):

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl395281153/weekend/

There's a chance it could pass The Fallen Kingdom even this weekend (it has to make around 13 million across the world to do that, which isn't too far a stretch), and it's still got many weeks left at the box office if it plays out like basically every single other movie these days (it will be a trickle at that point, but every penny counts). So The Fallen Kingdom absolutely isn't end target here imo. I'd say at the very least that Star Wars: The Last Jedi is well within reach:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films

But, for sure, it ain't gonna go any higher than Black Panther no matter what as far as I can see. Regardless, it's a phenomenal achievement however you look at it.

The point with him bringing up the adjusted for inflation numbers around The Super Mario Bros. Movie was clearly to try and take away from what it's achieved as far as I'm concerned, not as some genuine topic point. Maybe he's some jealous and angry Sega fanboy or Disney shill or whatever, but it was too try-hard and gave away his motivations there, and I simply called it out by pointing out there's far more to things than simply throwing around the adjusted for inflation comment. The Super Mario Bros. Movie is absolutely killing it no matter how anyone wants to try and portray it, very much deservedly so, and that's all we really need to understand and indeed celebrate here.

@Anti-Matter

I only went to see it once. Because my local cinema had the English version playing only once, on opening evening and I chose that instead of Finnish dubbed version. Surely big cities run both versions still.

@Phostachio you are wrong. The Mario movie was not high art, but was highly entertaining, I loved it…
Sure, its subjective… but you are wrong

@RetroGames
Here is the thing.
I enjoyed both Super Mario Bros and Little Mermaid live action movies regardless of any negative opinions.
I don't care with what peoples said.
I don't care with the numbers you shown.
If the movies are good for me then I will watch again as many as I want.

I had doubts, and the movie isn't close to being a masterpiece, but I'm happy for Nintendo. They not only made a substantial return to film (Pokémon movies aren't directly influenced by Nintendo), but they also made it very close to the top, and there's a chance they could make it out over the top.

I think some people here need to just lighten up and let Mario enjoy his silver screen moment 💅🏻

Awesome. Such is the Power of Mario!

@RetroGames This is the most pretentious comment I've ever read on this site. Everything okay at home? Are you getting enough validation and attention?

@Kuksenkov Not sure why you're trying to shame someone who actually presents evidence to back up their arguments. And you clearly haven't been reading many comments if you think that was the most pretentious thing here. There's far more obnoxious attention seekers.

Here we GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO