This morning we revealed to you that, according to the official numbers, Margot Robbie’s Barbie came ‘only’ second in the ranking of the most profitable films of 2023, and with Oppenheimer sitting in fifth place there was only one candidate left for first position: Super Mario Bros.
For the third time in its history, in fact, it was an Illumination film that won the ‘challenge’ of the most successful blockbuster of the year, with Super Mario Bros which followed in the footsteps of 2014’s Despicable Me 2 and 2017’s Pets: with a clean sweep of the famous 1993 Super Mario Bros live-action film starring Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo, which turned out to be a resounding flop, grossing just $21 million at the domestic box office and only $40 million worldwide against a budget of 50 million dollars, the animated film by Universal, Illumination and Nintendo took home a staggering $1.3 billion at the global box office: this is not the best grossing of the year but the second (the first is for Barbie, at 1.4 billion) but at the same time Super Mario Bros enjoyed a higher net profit than all the other blockbusters, bringing in Universal’s coffers the beauty of 559 million dollars (Barbie’s net profit was ‘only’ 421 million for Warner Bros).
This is because, compared to the revenues received from box office, home video and streaming (959 million), Super Mario Bros ‘only’ cost 400 million (100 million budget, 150 million marketing and other expenses), figures that make it the most successful blockbuster of 2023.
Not surprisingly, Universal has already announced the sequel to Super Mario Bros, which will be released in 2026.
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