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Released
1993 · FILM

Super Mario Bros.

Brothers and plumber heroes Mario and Luigi must navigate a dystopian parallel world of evolved dinosaurs to stop the tyrannical President Koopa from invading their own reality.

This ain't no game.

Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
105 min
AdventureComedyFamily
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

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 their universe from invasion by the dino dictator, Koopa.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 65+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Mark GoldblattShot by Dean SemlerScored by Alan SilvestriDesigned by David L Snyder

Box Office

1993 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.4× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$20.9M

Budget$48.0M
Worldwide gross$20.9M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $20.9M 100% of worldwide · International: $14K (0%)

Opening weekend: $9.7M 46% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $9.7M46% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,081 theaters

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