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#5,557 All-time worldwide
#79 1993 releases

Movie profile

Super Mario Bros.

1993 · 105 min · Hollywood Pictures

Adventure Fantasy Comedy Family
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $20.9M
Budget $48.0M
Gross minus budget -$27.1M
ROI 0.44x

Domestic gross

$9.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$11.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Super Mario Bros. ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #5,557 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1993 releases #79 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 1993. Studio / company #16 Hollywood Pictures of 34 titles Position inside the mapped Hollywood Pictures movie set. Primary genre #1,305 Adventure of 2,138 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did Super Mario Bros. (1993) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Super Mario Bros. (1993) earned a reported $20.9M worldwide against a reported $48.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$27.1M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.44x. In this database it currently ranks #5,557 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #79 among 1993 releases.

Worldwide gross
$20,929,518
Budget
$48,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$27,070,482
ROI
0.44x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They're the only hope to save our universe from invasion by the dino dictator, Koopa.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
May 28, 1993
Production
Hollywood Pictures, Cinergi Pictures, Allied Filmmakers
Countries
GB, US

Related indexes

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1993, Super Mario Bros. is positioned in this dataset as a Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy title from Hollywood Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $20.9M, reported production budget is $48.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$27.1M, ROI is 0.44x. For comparison, it currently sits #5,557 all-time in the current chart set and #79 among 1993 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.