Plumber brothers Mario and Luigi arrive in a magical new world where they are separated from each other
Four days following its theatrical release, the new animated film “Super Mario Brothers” broke a historic record. This Sunday, the site “Deadline” published a report showing that the animated film has already earned $ 377.5 million at the worldwide box office, and that it is the highest grossing debut for a movie of entertainment of all time.
According to the site, the film made just over $204 million this weekend in the United States and Canada and an additional $173 million in the rest of the countries where it is screened.
Separately, the film now holds the highest first-weekend grossing record of any movie hitting theaters this year, breaking the record set by ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ with $106 million. .
The highest-grossing animated film in its first weekend of release so far was Finding Dory, which earned $135.1 million in 2016.
“Super Mario Brothers”, inspired by the famous video game of the 1980s, is a collaboration between the Japanese computer game company “Nintendo” and the American animated film company “Illumination”. In the film, plumber brothers Mario and Luigi arrive in a magical new world where they are separated from each other. To help Mario in the search for his brother, Toad and Princess Peach come to the rescue.
