The Super Mario Bros. Movie is set to outgross the original 1993 live-action film's box office gross by a huge factor in just one weekend.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie's opening weekend will destroy the record set by the original live-action film. Hollywood has strayed away from adapting the Mario games into feature films after the 1993 movie Super Mario Bros., which starred Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo as Mario and Luigi, became a notorious flop.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Per Deadline, the Super Mario Bros. Movie cast has reason to celebrate this weekend. The film is set to rake in an enormous worldwide gross of $300 million by the end of the weekend, with its international gross exceeding $160 million. While this is just a projection and the full total won't be known until the end of the week, the film has the opportunity to exceed the 1993 film's $20 million gross by a factor of 15.
Has Hollywood Finally Cracked the Video Game Adaptation? Although there have been some hit films adapted from video games like 2001's Lara Croft: Tomb Raider or the Resident Evil franchise, the genre has been rife with failures for years. Most attempts to bring video games to live-action were met with critical derision and, at best, a lukewarm box office. However, the tide has begun to turn in recent years.2020 kicked off with one of the genre's biggest successes, Sonic the Hedgehog.
2023 has done even more to push the blockbuster video game adaptation forward. This kicked off in January with the post-apocalyptic HBO series The Last of Us, which garnered an even higher viewership than the Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon. Now The Super Mario Bros. Movie has swooped in with these dazzling numbers to show that the genre isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
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