Analyst: Nintendo may earn more than $1 billion from Mario movie

Image: Nintendo; Illumination Entertainment & Universal Pictures

Video game movies were already a hot trend, and then "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" came around and melted box office records.

Driving the news: Nintendo and Illumination's animated feature brought in $377 million in global box office in its first five days of release, through Sunday, according to Comscore.

Numbers: Nintendo may profit more than $1 billion from the "Mario" movie, MST Financial senior analyst David Gibson tells Axios.

Between the lines: Last year's two biggest video game movies, "Sonic The Hedgehog 2" and "Uncharted," took more than two months to earn just over $400 million each worldwide.

Other "Mario" movie notes:

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