The Super Mario Bros. Movie Beats Out Frozen to Become the 2nd Highest-Grossing Animated Film of All Time
Mario really jumped up superstar this week with The Super Mario Bros. Movie overtaking the worldwide box office gross of Frozen to become the second-highest-grossing animated film of all time. The Nintendo/Illumination production took out the milestone on June 1 and took down the behemoth of an animated film.
According to The Numbers, The Super Mario Bros. Movie has made US$1.29 billion worldwide, with US$563 million coming from North America and US$732 million from the rest of the world. The Japanese box office gross for the hometown video game hero, as of June 1, is at 10.33 billion yen (US$75.39 million) and is currently the 40th highest-grossing film in the region as well as the 18th highest-grossing animated film, including Japanese anime.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is also the 19th highest-grossing film ever worldwide and is now only behind Frozen 2’s mammoth US$1.45 billion worldwide box office takings on the animated charts.
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: Oricon, 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.
