The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which has a running duration of about one and a half hours, was published in its entirety online by a meme Twitter account known as “vidsthatgohard.” The unnamed Twitter account holder unlawfully posted the Nintendo and Illumination films to the platform via the microblogging site’s Twitter Blue video feature. Millions of people saw it before it was removed.
On Saturday evening, the film was released in two parts on the Twitter handle. The video remained on his page for the following seven hours before being removed by Twitter censors. According to Forbes, the video became viral, with at least 9 million people watching it.
The leak also triggered a meme-fest on Twitter, with one netizen tweeting, “Thanks for uploading the Mario movie, I got to watch the whole thing.”
Another wrote, “I can’t believe I watched the entire Super Mario movie on Twitter…or a movie at all on Twitter for that matter. Lol” And, one penned, “@vidsthatgohard Can you post Super Mario again I missed it.”
On Sunday morning, the DreamWorks animated picture Bee Movie was uploaded in the identical two-part manner to the Twitter handle. That, too, was removed. Meanwhile, the Super Mario Bros. Movie recently surpassed the billion mark at the global box office, making it the first animated film to do so since the COVID-19 pandemic. (Klonopin)
The animated film has grossed $490 million in North America and $532 million overseas after four weeks of release. It is the fifth film to gross $1 billion since the coronavirus epidemic, behind Spider-Man: No Way Home, Top Gun: Maverick, Jurassic World Dominion, and Avatar: The Way of Water.