"The Super Mario Bros. Movie" continued to rack up coins at the box office, leading ticket sales for the third straight weekend, as the animation hit neared $1 billion after just 18 days in theaters. There was no match for the Universal Pictures' movie, which grossed $58.2 million in its third weekend.
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"The Super Mario Bros. Movie" is setting a torrid pace for an animated movie. This week, it became the highest-grossing animated release of the pandemic era, with domestic ticket sales up to $434.3 million through Sunday and its global tally at $871.1 million. When "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" soon passes $1 billion worldwide, it will be just the fourth film of the pandemic era to reach that benchmark, following "Spider-Man: No Way Home," "Top Gun Maverick" and "Avatar: The Way of Water."
The theatrical industry will have much to celebrate when it convenes Monday in Las Vegas for the annual CinemaCon. Studios, beginning with Sony Pictures on Monday, will hype their summer blockbusters as Hollywood looks to return to pre-pandemic box-office levels.
