The Super Mario Bros. Movie Beats The Incredibles 2 to Be 3rd Highest-Grossing Animated Film of All Time

Written by on May 25, 2023

 

Mario and friends in The Super Mario Bros. Movie have jumped up superstar to bronze place on the worldwide animation charts, overtaking The Incredibles 2 to be the third highest-grossing animated film of all time, sitting only behind both Frozen films. In Mario’s home country of Japan, the film rose nearly 20 spots to also be the 63rd highest-grossing film of all time in the country, passing a staggering 9 billion yen.

 

As of Sunday, May 21, The Super Mario Bros. Movie has grossed 9.14 billion yen (US$67.88 million) in Japan on the back of 6.43 million tickets sold. It now sits behind Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith in 61st place on the all-time Japanese box office charts.

 

The Super Mario Bros. Movie is also now the highest-grossing video game adaptation in Japan, matching its worldwide mantle, passing both Pokémon The First Movie and 2014’s Yo-Kai Watch Movie: It’s the Secret of Birth, Meow!

 

RELATED: The Super Mario Bros. Movie Jumps onto JP Box Office’s All-Time List at 81st

 

The Lego Movie 2 story writer Matthew Fogel wrote the screenplay for The Super Mario Bros. Movie, with Teen Titan’s Go! To the Movies‘ Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic co-directing. Shigeru Miyamoto and Chris Meledandri at Illumination produced the film for Universal Pictures distribution.

 

Sources: Kogyo Tsushin, The Numbers

 

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Daryl Harding is a Senior Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs a YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza, and posts photos of his travels on Instagram.


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