Maybe Disney could learn a lesson here...
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SMB made another $5.8 Million Monday night, which was quite a bit more than any other movie in the top 10 made on Friday, Saturday or Sunday night, including all 6 new wide releases.
The closest any movie came all weekend to Mario's Monday night was John Wick 4's $3,474,751 on Saturday night.
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Okay. Just pout then. 
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Just a hair short of $725 Million worldwide in only 14 days. 
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Cheap Seat Tuesday Results:
SMB (Day 14): $7,402,565
ALL 22 other movies currently in the theaters now: $5,624,803
https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-chart/daily/2023/04/18
The Super Mario Bros. Movie just pulled in $1,777,762 more than every single other movie in the US Box office yesterday combined.
I won't say that's never happened before since I don't see anybody else saying it right now, but it's certainly the only time I've ever seen it since paying attention to The-Numbers.com.
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Today's audiences are Super Nostalgic for the 1993 version of Super-Mario-Bros:
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons/Super-Mario-Bros
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I loved the original SMB movie before it was cool. 
I've posted about it quite a bit in these cinema threads over the years and have been completely unapologetic for loving it. I put it right up there with both Costner's The Postman and Waterworld as great movies that were extremely underrated before the Internet and unfairly targeted as "Bad" movies after the rise of sites like YouTube.
The same thing happened to the Atari 2600 game E.T. when the Angry Video Game Nerd took a dump on it and 1,000 other channels on YouTube made videos about how it was the worst Atari game ever made and was single-handedly responsible for the video game market crash in the mid-80s. Neither of those statements are even true.
Hell... Even NPR has an article about it called "Total Failure: The World's Worst Video Game"
https://www.npr.org/2017/05/31/530235165/total-failure-the-worlds-wors
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I got a lot of enjoyment out of E.T. when I was a kid, and I figured out the way that you could know early on if you were going to win the game if you played well or if you should just reset the system and try again. I liked it at the time because it was way different than any other game I had played before at home and it made you think creatively to solve it and to reliably beat it. Instead of spaceship/man shoots aliens/soldiers or thing moves around maze while picking things up and avoiding bad guys, it was more like cracking the code to Solitaire, the single-person card game that can be reliably beat once you slow down, temper your impulses and play right.
To find out that the dude who made it only had like a month to finish it before the holiday season and he hardly got any sleep was impressive. To find out that his entire career was ruined and he ended up shouldering most of the blame for killing the home video game market at the time was depressing.
I know a LOT about video games. Probably more than most people out there since I'm somewhat of a historian on them.
Was E.T. a great game? Probably not... at least I would say that it for sure was the wrong game to put the E.T. Franchise wrapper around after paying tens of Millions of dollars for licensing rights before a Christmas push without doing any audience testing first. But if it were to stand alone on its own merits without any expensive copyrighted material in it and sky-high expectations, I think it would have been much more well received.
It certainly wasn't the worst game ever made though. It wasn't the worst game Atari ever made. It wasn't the worst game on the Atari 2600. It wasn't the worst game that came out on Atari in 1982.
Here's a list of games that came out in 1982:
https://gamicus.fandom.com/wiki/1982_in_video_gaming
Without even having to list "Custer's Last Stand", "Cathouse Blues", "Philly Flasher" or "Beat 'em and Eat 'em" as objectively worse games after the first 30 seconds of the idea of 1982-style digital porn novelty wears off, you can find a whole basket of terrible games that don't compete at all with E.T.
Here's my short list, just from skimming those titles, in no particular order:
1 Any sports game. Period. The technology just wasn't there yet.
2. Backgammon
3. China Syndrome
4. Spider-Man (Cool idea, but basically unplayable)
.... hmmmm
Going through the bad games of 1982 is kind of a waste of time, really. There were some truly standout games released in 1982 like "Turmoil", "Towering Inferno", "Journey: Escape" (licensed by the band and with the song "Don't Stop Believing" in the game, "Demon Attack", "Venture", "River Raid" and "Pitfall!".
They did a lot of arcade conversions that year with WILDLY varying results. The 2600 port of Pac-Man was famously abysmal, as was Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. Gorf was serviceable, as was "Dig-Dug". "Pole Pos
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With 5 more wide releases this weekend, SMB is still going to be on top by a lot. Bruce's model predicts $68 Million this weekend (although he thinks that might be a little high).
That alone would be enough to put it over $800 Million worldwide in just 19 days, not even including with it will make internationally over the weekend, and it would also be enough to leap-frog it from the 52nd highest domestic grossing movie to the 26th.
I don't think it will end up cracking the top 10 Domestic, but I don't think 14th place is out of the question.
Pretty crazy. I knew it would do better than any recent Disney animated flick, but I never would have expected a video game based movie to do this well.
Has anybody seen it? Is it even any good, or are we just so starved for anything resembling entertainment without being preached to that just being competent without The Message is a Billion Dollar affair in 2023?
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
With 5 more wide releases this weekend, SMB is still going to be on top by a lot. Bruce's model predicts $68 Million this weekend (although he thinks that might be a little high).
Yeah. Looks like the projected take this weekend was $58.2 Million. They usually like to err on the side of caution, especially when the movie is new and/or still raking in a lot of cash, so I wouldn't be surprised to see something like $60 Million actual.
Where the projected numbers are now, it puts it in 28th place all time Domestic right behind E.T. and above Toy Story 4.
It should be 25th place, right behind Black Panther: Wakanda Forever before next weekend, and I'd suspect 20th place, right behind Finding Dory and overtaking Frozen II by the end of next weekend.
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Where the projected numbers are now, it puts it in 28th place all time Domestic right behind E.T. and above Toy Story 4.
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