The Super Mario Bros. Movie hit $1.35 billion in revenue.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie hit $1.36 billion in revenue.
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie hits $1.35B in revenue and 168.1M viewers

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The numbers for The Super Mario Bros. Movie keep getting better, with $1.35 billion in revenue and 168.1 million viewers to date.

Nintendo said in its quarterly report today that the box-office revenue numbers are the highest ever for an original film based on a video game, and the second highest for an animated film. The movie has appeal across the globe, including markets such as Asia and South America.

Nintendo said that the film showed success in expanding outside the dedicated video game platform business to create new opportunities to encounter Nintendo IP, invigorating its overall business.

The company also said the heightened consumer interest in Super Mario is having positive effects in a wide range of fields, including growing sales of Mario related titles, and sales of smart device apps and merchandise.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.