`The Super Mario Bros. Movie` makes $368 mn global debut, sets record – Moviesapple

Calling it "a box office Koopa d`etat", `Variety` reports that the `The Super Mario Bros. Movies` continues to super smash its opening projections, drawing $55 million from 4,343

theaters in North America on Friday. Released on Wednesday (US Time), the film has already earned $137 million in domestic ticket sales. "If every dollar were a coin, that would

amount to 1.37 million 1-Up mushrooms. That's a lot of extra lives," `Variety` noted. The Universal and Illumination film is still on track for a $195-million opening in North

America over the five-day Easter weekend frame. That's way ahead of the $150 million projections that were being reported at the beginning of the week. Even more impressively,

`Super Mario Bros.` now looks to leap to a $368-million global debut. That would be the biggest-ever opening for an animated film, though, to set the record straight, the current

record holder -- 2019's `Frozen II` -- earned $358 million over a traditional three-day window. Also Read: `Snowfall` star Damson Idris set to work with Brad Pitt in Formula One

racing movie `The Super Mario Bros. Movie` features a voice cast that includes Chris Pratt as Mario, Charlie Day as Luigi, Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach and Jack Black as

Bowser. Unlike, however, the hit Nintendo video game series that it's based on, the film hasn't earned glowing reviews, drawing a 44 percent rating from top critics on aggregator

website Rotten Tomatoes, notes `Variety`. The animated adventure, though, has landed well with super fans of the video games as well as family audiences, who, says `Variety`, have

been starved of a wide release targeted at them since the debut of `Puss in Boots: The Last Wish` over the holidays, more than three months ago. This story has been sourced from a

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