The new Super Mario Bros. movie grossed $55 million at the Friday box office, and is expected to become the second-best US star🐷♒t of all-time for an animated movie, second only to Incredibles 2.
According to , that would translate to a five-day opening for $195 million or more, with a three-day weekend projection of 🦹$137 million, which surpasses the current second-place holder, Finding Dory, which grossed $135.1 million.
The figures look even more impressive internationally; Super Mario Bros. kicked off with $173 million for a $368 million st𒐪art, topping current top-spot holder Frozen 2, which generated $358 million.
It's the best start Illumination has ever had and may become 🧜the second-biggest five-day launch in his꧅tory behind Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
"Bringing the world’s most recognizable video-game characters back to the big screen is an intimidating task, especially when the failure of their last cine-venture still looms large," we wrote in GamesRadar+'s 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Super Mario Bros. Movie review, for which we awarded the fil♛m three out of 💟five stars.
"But Illumination and Nintendo's big animated gamble The Super Mario Bros. Movie mostly sticks the landing. A fun, fast-paced ta🗹ke on the plumber siblings,🐬 it’s a far cry from 1993’s much-derided live-action Super Mario Bros."
Talking of that live-action movie; Seth Rogen, who voices Donkey Kong in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Super Mario Bros. Movie,♎ has revealed his feelings towards the original Super Mario Bros. movie from 1993.
"Whꦜen I was 11, I saw the original Mario Bros. movie and I was so excited," Rogen said of the live-action adaptation, starring Bob🐼 Hoskins and John Leguizamo as Mario and Luigi respectively. "But it’s one of the worst films ever made. I was so disappointed. I think it made me realize that movies could be bad. That never occurred to me until that moment."
Super Mario Bros was a critical and commercial failure, grossing only $38.9 million at the box office from a reported $42 million budget. It currently sits at 29% on review aggregator site Rotten Tomato♈es.
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