Out of all the superhero roles that Chris Pratt has played in his career, the role of Mario might be his favorite. After all, the fans have immensely loved how the actor has voiced the character. This was evident when the Nintendo game-based movie hit the theatres it had blown away the box office predictions becoming one of the highest-grossing movies of the year. And only after five days of release The Super Mario Bros. Movie grabbed the title of the biggest opening weekend for an animated movie.
Even though Chris Pratt’s movie was immensely popular in the USA, the animated film was brutally beaten in Japan by a popular anime franchise. And, no, it is not Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball film or Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece that has recorded the highest-earning film in 2023. The 26th film in the Detective Conan franchise has marked the highest opening in 2023.
Chris Pratt’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie Was Beaten By The 26th Detective Conan Film
Detective Conan is also known as Case Closed, the show aired its first episode in 1996, and in nearly three decades it has gained countless fans, and it does not plan to stop, as it is going strong with more than 1070 episodes, and 26 films as part of the franchise, and an estimated worth of $69 million.
Chris Pratt’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie has earned a total of $94.9 million (13.53 billion yen) in Japan, but Detective Conan: Kurogane no Submarine, which happens to be the 26th film in the mystery thriller anime series has smashed its rival as it earned $105.8 million.
Pratt’s movie is the 20th highest-earning film of all time in Japan and the highest-earning Universal Pictures in Japan. However, despite immense success in Western countries the animated film struggled to have a decent box office record in Japan.
Chris Pratt Got Emotional Watching The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Before shattering box office records in the USA, The Super Mario Bros. Movies faced immense online backlash from fans. Naturally, Chris Pratt was immensely nervous as he had been cast for the iconic role, and he was worried about how the movie would turn out to be. Pratt had confessed how nervous he was and had doubts about how the finished movie would turn out to be.
During an exclusive interview with ET, the Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom actor stated his fears and how he got emotional watching the film for the first time.
“There had been a lot of backlash and people talking about the casting. And I was like, “Oh, man. I hope it’s good.” And then it’s so good. It was just such a relief. I was as nervous as everybody else that this was going to get screwed up and I was grateful that it didn’t.”
The project was immensely important for Pratt because as a kid, the actor had played Mario games for “probably a thousand hours,” if not more. Fittingly, when the Guardians of the Galaxy actor would play the game with his siblings, he would choose the Italian Plumber. Hence, it was immensely important to make sure that people would love his performance in the animated movie.
Source: Anime News Network | Kogyotsushin
