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Variety reports:

“The Super Mario Bros. Movie” continues to super smash its opening projections, drawing $55 million from 4,343 theaters on Friday. Released Wednesday, the film has already earned $137 million in domestic ticket sales. Replace every dollar with a coin and that would amount to 1.37 million 1-Up mushrooms. That’s a lot of extra lives.

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 start 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.

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— Variety (@Variety) April 8, 2023