movie The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) | Chris Pratt | $1.3B WW | Out now on digital

[mystery]

32 minutes ago, Rence said:

Wtf 
 

 

Jesus, this is going to be the highest grossing movie of the year and most likely the biggest animated film ever. Frozen is going down.

[dabunique]

my 8 year old self is losing it at how big this movie has become

[99sandthe2000s]

 

[Shawn]

It actually turned out slightly higher than the guy mentioned. 

 

$92.45M second domestic weekend (Top Gun Maverick was $90M). An insane -36.8% drop following Easter weekend.

 

 

Deadline: 

MONDAY AM: The cash keeps flowing through the pipes for Illumination/Universal’s Super Mario Bros Movie which had a better Sunday than expected with $30.5M, sending its second weekend to an awesome $92.45M. That’s still a record second frame for an animated movie, but also the 7th highest second weekend of all-time at the domestic box office. The pic’s running total stands at $353.2M.

 

3 hours ago, Rence said:

Wtf 
 

 

 

[Gwendolyn]

I wonder when Nintendo is gonna announce the next IP getting a movie.. any bets?

[Pink Ranger]

39 minutes ago, Gwendolyn said:

I wonder when Nintendo is gonna announce the next IP getting a movie.. any bets?

Knowing Nintendo it will be during a direct in the summer or fall I’d imagine 

[ebaby]

haters lost 

 

[Shawn]

Overseas came in bigger than the original estimates as well (by like 10 million). 

 

 

[Da Vinci]

Right now, Mario's gross in China is at $11.9M with predictions for a final gross of $21M and it's not doing any better in other Asian countries where Mario games/Nintendo are also huge and iconic  

 

Meanwhile, Japan is stanning their own anime movies instead of Hollywood movies/animation (as they should! ) Their top 5 of 2022 had 4 anime movies

And now the newly released Detective Conan movie is blowing up and smashing as we speak and will be fierce competition for Mario, taking up most of their screens

Minions 2 (the previous Illumination movie) did $32.6M in Japan with fierce competition from the massive One Piece movie released a month after it

 

Interestingly enough, China and South Korea also prefers Japanese anime movies over Western animation with Suzume and The First Slam Dunk both outgrossing Minions 2 in those countries (Suzume grossed $109M in China in less than a month while Minions 2 only did $34.7M overall)

 

So looking at all that data, I would be really surprised if Mario smashes in Japan

[MAKSIM]

3 minutes ago, Da Vinci said:

Right now, Mario's gross in China is at $11.9M with predictions for a final gross of $21M and it's not doing any better in other Asian countries where Mario games/Nintendo are also huge and iconic  

 

Meanwhile, Japan is stanning their own anime movies instead of Hollywood movies/animation (as they should! ) Their top 5 of 2022 had 4 anime movies

And now the newly released Detective Conan movie is blowing up and smashing as we speak and will be fierce competition for Mario, taking up most of their screens

Minions 2 (the previous Illumination movie) did $32.6M in Japan with fierce competition from the massive One Piece movie released a month after it

 

Interestingly enough, China and South Korea also prefers Japanese anime movies over Western animation with Suzume and The First Slam Dunk both outgrossing Minions 2 in those countries (Suzume grossed $109M in China in less than a month while Minions 2 only did $34.7M overall)

 

So looking at all that data, I would be really surprised if Mario smashes in Japan

You do realize the Mario movie is half funded by a Japanese company….

[Da Vinci]

6 minutes ago, MAKSIM said:

You do realize the Mario movie is half funded by a Japanese company….

What does that have to do with Japanese moviegoers' tastes?  

The Sonic movies were also funded by a Japanese company and both did only $1M each in Japan (final grosses)

[MAKSIM]

1 minute ago, Da Vinci said:

What does that have to do with Japanese moviegoers' tastes?  

The Sonic movies were also funded by a Japanese company and both did only $1M each in Japan (final grosses)

Because you’re comparing the gross of the creator of the most popular Japanese film ever (Your Name) to extrapolate data for Mario. Like no ****, Japan likes anime. They also have tons of Pixar and Disney animated films in their top films year after year. 

 

[Da Vinci]

28 minutes ago, MAKSIM said:

Because you’re comparing the gross of the creator of the most popular Japanese film ever (Your Name) to extrapolate data for Mario. Like no ****, Japan likes anime. They also have tons of Pixar and Disney animated films in their top films year after year. 

It's a fact that Mario isn't smashing as hard in Asia as it is in the US/Europe

Frozen 2 dropped hard in Japan while anime movies like Demon Slayer, One Piece, etc. broke records whereas pre-2020, it would've been the other way around cause anime movies/sequels never reached Your Name/Ghibli levels before

 

So with that logic, seeing how Mario isn't even outgrossing Minions 2 in Asia, I don't see how Japan will stan it when they're already rejecting Hollywood movies in favor of anime sequels unlike last decade. Avatar 2 straight up bombed there even when that outgrossed Avatar 1 in China for example. And if China prefers anime over Mario, what more for Japan? Like I said, Mario is gonna compete with Detective Conan that's currently smashing. At least Minions 2 had a month to itself before One Piece snatched it.

[Lovett]

[Broken]

 

 

[Life Savers]

Yes Princess Peach, yes success. 

[Japan]

2 hours ago, Da Vinci said:

Right now, Mario's gross in China is at $11.9M with predictions for a final gross of $21M and it's not doing any better in other Asian countries where Mario games/Nintendo are also huge and iconic  

 

Meanwhile, Japan is stanning their own anime movies instead of Hollywood movies/animation (as they should! ) Their top 5 of 2022 had 4 anime movies

And now the newly released Detective Conan movie is blowing up and smashing as we speak and will be fierce competition for Mario, taking up most of their screens

Minions 2 (the previous Illumination movie) did $32.6M in Japan with fierce competition from the massive One Piece movie released a month after it

 

Interestingly enough, China and South Korea also prefers Japanese anime movies over Western animation with Suzume and The First Slam Dunk both outgrossing Minions 2 in those countries (Suzume grossed $109M in China in less than a month while Minions 2 only did $34.7M overall)

 

So looking at all that data, I would be really surprised if Mario smashes in Japan

You seem don't understand that Super Mario and Nintendo are Japan's national treasures

 

And no, you just can't compare Japan to other Asian countries when talking about Mario/Nintendo popularity

 

Actually Nintendo is a very small and conservative company (it has like 7K employees worldwide, less than EA, Activision, Ubisoft and many other "normal" publishers)... So before Switch generation hit it didn't even had an official presence in many parts of the world/Asia. There was no games localization etc. I mean, Switch launched in South Korea without korean UI (it was added later)...

 

So no, Mario and Nintendo are not as huge in Asia outside of Japan as they are in Japan. And it was never the case.

 

The truth is outside of Japan there is just around 10 Nintendo publishing offices around the world...

 

    Nintendo of America Inc. (Treehouse)
    Nintendo of Canada Ltd.
    Nintendo of Europe GmbH (Germany)
    Nintendo France S.A.R.L.
    Nintendo Benelux B.V.
    Nintendo Ibérica, S.A.
    Nintendo RU LLC. (closing due to the war and sanctions)
    Nintendo Australia Pty Limited
    Nintendo of Korea Co., Ltd.
    Nintendo (Hong Kong) Limited

 

In Mainland China Nintendo doing business with Tencent since Switch era.

 

Today Nintendo is trying to translate its high-profile games into Korean and Chinese, but 15-20 years ago this was out of the question.

 

And in India and the Arab world Nintendo does not exist at all at the official level.

 

So in many regions of the world people didn't grow up with Mario in the same way as Japanese, Americans or Europeans

[Da Vinci]

1 hour ago, Japan said:

You seem don't understand that Super Mario and Nintendo are Japan's national treasures

 

And no, you just can't compare Japan to other Asian countries when talking about Mario/Nintendo popularity

 

Actually Nintendo is a very small and conservative company (it has like 7K employees worldwide, less than EA, Activision, Ubisoft and many other "normal" publishers)... So before Switch generation hit it didn't even had an official presence in many parts of the world/Asia. There was no games localization etc. I mean, Switch launched in South Korea without korean UI (it was added later)...

 

So no, Mario and Nintendo are not as huge in Asia outside of Japan as they are in Japan. And it was never the case.

 

The truth is outside of Japan there is just around 10 Nintendo publishing offices around the world...

 

    Nintendo of America Inc. (Treehouse)
    Nintendo of Canada Ltd.
    Nintendo of Europe GmbH (Germany)
    Nintendo France S.A.R.L.
    Nintendo Benelux B.V.
    Nintendo Ibérica, S.A.
    Nintendo RU LLC. (closing due to the war and sanctions)
    Nintendo Australia Pty Limited
    Nintendo of Korea Co., Ltd.
    Nintendo (Hong Kong) Limited

 

In Mainland China Nintendo doing business with Tencent since Switch era.

 

Today Nintendo is trying to translate its high-profile games into Korean and Chinese, but 15-20 years ago this was out of the question.

 

And in India and the Arab world Nintendo does not exist at all at the official level.

 

So in many regions of the world people didn't grow up with Mario in the same way as Japanese, Americans or Europeans

With that logic, Pokémon: Detective Pikachu should've made $100M+ in Japan instead of just $27M

 

This Mario movie, like Detective Pikachu, is written, directed, voice acted, edited, scored, etc. by mostly Americans (white people) primarily FOR Americans and a global audience. Its success in Japan just isn't guaranteed unlike anime movies where everyone involved in the process is Japanese, creating and working primarily FOR a Japanese audience

 

Nobody is disputing Nintendo and Mario's icon status in Japan.... as video games

Movies about those video games are a different thing

[MDS]

6 hours ago, Gwendolyn said:

I wonder when Nintendo is gonna announce the next IP getting a movie.. any bets?

Knowing Nintendo, maybe the next decade, if we´re lucky

[lovecatt]

7 hours ago, Gwendolyn said:

I wonder when Nintendo is gonna announce the next IP getting a movie.. any bets?

We'll probably get a DK spin off (see the current theme park expansions) & a Mario sequel before another IP gets a movie

[XAMJ]

Frozen (an original IP with a 1/4 of the relevance) finally going down to Mario, what  a run.

[znake]

Coming for 1 billion by end of this weekend   I fear 

[arceus]

We need that Smash Bros Cinematic Universe. Not just limited to Nintendo's characters!!!! 

[bliaz]

My niece was very excited to see the movie. She said she liked it. All the little kids in the movie theater dressed as Mario characters 

[arceus]

main pop girl