Behind live-action blockbusters like “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” “Avengers: Endgame,” and “Jurassic World,” the animated film, Super Mario Bros. Movie created additional history by earning the seventh-biggest second weekend of all time domestically.
Hollywood studios announce their films’ anticipated weekend box office totals every Sunday morning.
Except in cases where they have a massive hit or a huge miss on their hands, such estimations are typically rather accurate.
The first category includes The Super Mario Bros. Movie. The Illumination and Universal film surpassed Frozen II to record the best second-weekend performance of all time for an animated film and the ninth best of any movie, without accounting for inflation, according to figures released on Sunday for the April 14–16 weekend.
The results abroad are likewise impressive. After completing Sunday with a foreign haul of $339.8 million and a home haul of $353.3 million for a 12-day global tally of $693.1 million through Sunday, the PG film crossed $700 million in worldwide ticket sales.
Super Mario beat out Frozen II to boast the biggest animated global opening of all time and the second best domestic opening behind Incredibles 2 in its long Easter holiday release.
In contrast to a PG-rated cartoon film aimed at families, Mario continues to play more like an all-audience tentpole, and more particularly, superhero entertainment.
This achievement is credited by analysts to the Mario video games from Nintendo, which are enormously well-liked across generations.
The top 10 second weekends at the North American box office according to Comscore are listed below along with their percentage declines, which have not been adjusted by inflation:
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, $149.2 million (-40 percent)
Avengers: Endgame, $147.4 million (-51 percent)
Avengers: Infinity War, $114.8 million (-55 percent)
Black Panther, $111.7 million (-47 percent)
Jurassic World, $106.6 million (-49 percent)
The Avengers, $103.1 million (-50 percent)
The Super Mario Bros. Movie, $92.5 million (-37 percent)
2017’s Beauty and the Beast, $90.4 million (-48 percent)
Top Gun: Maverick, $90 million (-29 percent)
Frozen II, $85.9 million (-34 percent)
