Nintendo’s “Super Mario Bros. The Movie” hits $1 billion at the global box office – small tech news

IT House News on April 29th, Hollywood announced that the global box office of “Super Mario Bros. Movie” exceeded 1 billion U.S. dollars this Sunday (IT House Note: currently about 6.92 billion yuan), becoming the total box office in the history of game-adapted movies champion. The specific box office figures for the weekend of the film have not yet been released. As of this Friday, the global gross is 970 million US dollars, including 483 million US dollars in North America, 487 million US dollars outside North America, including 140 million yuan in mainland China.

“Super Mario Bros. The Movie,” released in Mainland China on April 5, is co-produced by Illumination Entertainment and Nintendo, directed by Aaron Horvath & Michael Jelenik (“Teen Titans Attack”), with Matthew・Fogel (“Minions 2”, “The Lego Movie 2”) screenwriter.

IT House previously reported that Nintendo’s legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto revealed in an interview that after the “Super Mario Bros. Movie”,Nintendo has more movie plans in the pipeline. He stated that Nintendo has many other “actors” that can be used to make movies or animations. According to the characteristics and popularity of different characters, an appropriate method can be selected to adapt the movie.