The Super Mario Bros. Movie Clears 6 Billion Yen With Ease in Japan
The power of the Brooklyn plumbers knows no bounds with The Super Mario Bros. Movie continuing to make coin all around the world, passing US$1.1 billion over the last weekend with Japan rising to be the 5th biggest territory for the Nintendo/Illumination film in just a little over a Golden Week.
As of May 7, The Super Mario Bros. Movie in Japan has made 6.5 billion yen (US$47.59 million) on the back of 4.67 million tickets sold. Mario crossed 5 billion yen over the last week as the third fastest film to ever do so, tied with Detective Conan: The Black Iron Submarine and JUJUTSU KAISEN 0 at just nine days.
Worldwide, according to The Numbers, The Super Mario Bros. Movie sits at US$1.159 billion, making it the highest-grossing film ever for animation studio Illumination, just above Minions’ US$1.157 billion worldwide gross. It’s also now the 24th highest-grossing film of all time worldwide.
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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.
