animated film the super mario bros movie was leaked online on twitter and remained on the platform for several days before it was removedaccording to the verge a twitter user uploaded the full movie to the microblogging site on friday april 28 openly violating copyright laws over nine million people illegally watched the movie before it was removed reports aceshowbizcomthe user was also suspended from twitter for violating the digital millennium copyright actwhile this isnt the first case of an entire movie being leaked online the latest case brought more attention to twitter which amended laws that have been blamed for enabling such copyright infringementaccording to reports since elon musk took over the company under a 44 billion acquisition in october 2022 he increased the length of videos users can post to the platformtwitter blue subscribers can upload videos up to 60 minutes longthe super mario bros movie required only two posts one with the first hour of the movie and another with the final 32 minutes previously the fast and the furious tokyo drift and avatar were shared in two minute increments across lengthy threadsthe super mario bros movie has continued to thrive at box office both domestically and internationally despite the leak it recently crossed the 1 billion mark worldwide after garnering 4908 million in the us and canada and 5355 million overseasthe adaptation of nintendos video game franchise becomes only the 10th animated film to achieve the feat it has become the highestgrossing film of 2023 and became the highestgrossing film based on a video game after just one week of releaseglobally the movie which features the voice of chris pratt as the titular plumber now ranks as universals seventhbiggest film of all time surpassing jurassic world dominion 2022 and despicable me 2010