'Super Mario Bros. Movie' tops $1B, first film to cross the milestone in 2023
Drew Angerer
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (NASDAQ:CMCSA) has become the first movie of 2023 to surpass $1B in global box office receipts. Only five films since the COVID pandemic have also crossed the milestone, including, Avatar: The Way of Water, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Top Gun: Maverick and Jurassic World: Dominion.
The stats outline how moviegoers are once again heading out of their houses to the cinemas. While the figures are impressive, things have still not fully recovered, with nine movies surpassing the billion-dollar mark in 2019 alone. 
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is a collaboration between Japanese videogame company Nintendo (OTCPK:NTDOY) and Universal Pictures' (CMCSA) animation unit Illumination Entertainment. 
The film also became Universal Pictures' seventh-biggest film ever, and is now both the No. 1 animated film and the fourth-biggest hit since 2019 in terms of global box office numbers.
Nintendo's (OTCPK:NTDOY) stock price has risen about 6% since the movie released. The movie reached $377M on its opening weekend, the biggest-ever globally for an animated title. 
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