The Super Mario Bros Movie Is Now The Second Biggest Animated Movie Ever

The Super Mario Bros Movie is now the second highest-grossing animated film ever at the global box office. 

Pop Crave on Twitter ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ has surpassed ‘Frozen’ to become the 2nd highest-grossing animated movie of all time. pic.twitter.com/mXd79auVYR— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) May 31, 2023 Pop Crave Twitter

That's according to a site that collates movie ticket sales data, The Numbers, which states that the Mario movie has grossed $1,294,577,622 since it was released worldwide in theatres back in April. In terms of all-time worldwide animated box office, that leaves the list as follows:

1. Frozen II - $1,453,683,476
2. The Super Mario Bros Movie- $1,294,577,622
3. Frozen - $1,284,540,518
4. Incredibles 2 - $1,243,705,359
5. Minions - $1,157,271,759
6. Toy Story 4 - $1,073,064,540
7. Toy Story 3 - $1,068,879,522
8. Despicable Me 3 - $1,032,809,657
9. Finding Dory - $1,025,006,125
10. Zootopia - $1,002,462,578

This also makes the Super Mario Bros Movie the highest-grossing movie of 2023 so far, with only Guardians 3 coming anywhere near the numbers it has produced. In direct response to the success of the Mario movie, Eiji Aounuma, producer of The Legend of Zelda series, stated his interest in making a movie adaptation:

"I have to say, I am interested. For sure. But it's not just me being interested in something that makes things happen, unfortunately"