Mario Movie Surpasses Disney's Animated Hit Frozen At The Box Office. The Super Mario Bros. Movie has been a huge success for Nintendo and Illumination since it made its debut in April, and now it has achieved yet another milestone.
What is the highest-grossing animated film of 2023?
#1: The Super Mario Bros. Movie
The first billion-dollar global earner of 2023—and only the fourth since 2020—The Super Mario Bros. Movie leveled up at the box office, surpassing Frozen II as the biggest global animated opener of all time.
While you may associate all things animated with Disney, The Super Mario Bros. Movie comes from Illumination Entertainment — the animation studio behind the Minions movies. Illumination is under the wing of Universal Pictures. Therefore, Peacock has exclusive streaming rights to the star-studded film.
Let me make it clear that Disney buying Nintendo will NEVER happen. A number of factors come into it including the fact that Disney has never developed video game consoles before. In fact, software development is the furthest they've gotten in terms of creating technology.
It was through Nintendo's work with Universal to create Super Mario World that Miyamoto met Illumination CEO Chris Meledandri, and the two hit it off so well, that Miyamoto chose Illumination to make the film. As for Disney, they would never have been interested in such a venture.
The Super Mario Bros Movie 2 still hasn't been confirmed, but perhaps we don't have too long to wait now. The first movie took a lot of gold coins at the box office, grossing $1.36 billion worldwide following its release in April 2023.
Movie' as year's biggest film in North America. Greta Gerwig's fantasy-comedy, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, has generated $575.4 million at the domestic box office, overtaking the Nintendo mascot's animated film as the 2023 champion.
Mario is a character created by the Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. He is the title character of the Mario franchise and the mascot of the Japanese video game company Nintendo.
Mario Time is still not over, as the animated film has broken another record, becoming the first film of 2023 to pass the $1 billion mark at the global box office.
Movie has exceeded Illumination's previous production budgets, due to a number of factors. Firstly, The Super Mario Bros. Movie has a truly impressive voice cast, which is sure to be one of the film's largest expenses, especially if Chris Pratt earns a figure similar to Steve Carrell in Minions: The Rise of Gru.
“Barbie” has topped $537 million, making it the highest-grossing domestic movie in Warner Bros. Discovery's 100-year history. The previous record holder was Christopher Nolan's “The Dark Knight,” which generated $536 million in 2008. The bubblegum pink collaboration between Greta Gerwig, Mattel and Warner Bros.
Going by pick rate alone, Sonic has Mario beat by a landslide. The reason for this is that Sonic is just faster and more able to pull off insane combo maneuvers than Mario is. While Mario's attacks hit harder in the game, Sonic can dance around enemies while employing the Death By A Thousand Cuts approach to combat.
If there's no items then Sonic wins. Mario power ups are the only thing that can make Mario keep up with Super Sonic; for example, if Sonic goes Super, Mario could use the white tanooki or white cat suit to stall until it rans out. Mario doesn't stand a chance against Super Sonic.
Mario and Luigi's abilities are pretty much evenly matched. For every area that Luigi is slightly better in, Mario has something he does better than Luigi.
Though we don't get a green Yoshi in a major role in the film, we do get a quick glimpse of some other-colored Yoshis in the flick — and one dinosaur-sized hint of what's to come during a post-credits scene.
Since Daisy doesn't live anywhere near the Mushroom Kingdom, The Super Mario Bros. Movie could easily avoid her, but the story presents the film with an easy way of including her regardless. According to the trailers, Bowser poses a threat to multiple kingdoms.
Disney's Sonic The Hedgehog is a collaboration between SEGA and Walt Disney Animation after the success of Sonic's cameos in Wreck It Ralph. This movie is different than the one from Paramount, as this is Disney's move to make a movie that's not their property.
