The Super Mario Bros Movie breaks opening weekend records
by Guardian film from Technology | The Guardian on (#6AP2Y)
Families flock in over Easter despite poor reviews, helping Mario collect more than 300m worldwide to become highest grossing game adaptation and animated film over opening weekend
The animated Super Mario Bros Movie has shot to the top of the global box office, taking $377m (304m) worldwide on its opening weekend.
The new film is an origin story about how Brooklyn plumbers Mario, voiced by Chris Pratt, and Luigi (Charlie Day), fall into a rogue pipe and wind up in a world populated by Nintendo's most famous characters.
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