With a budget of $48 million and a box office haul of only $20.9 million, the movie was a huge failure.
Now, fresh off the heels of Assassin’s Creed‘s failure at the box office and Super Mario Run‘s success on the App Store, CBR has discovered that the Super Mario Bros. movie is getting re-released as a Steelbook Blu-ray in the UK.
Decades before Assassin’s Creed became the latest in a long line of video game movie flops, there was Super Mario Bros. Based on the massively popular franchise, the 1993 movie starred Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo as the titular heroes as they discover an ancient evil, an underground city, and their true destiny.
The results seemed to split the difference, offering a tonally-confusing final product that both Hoskins and Leguizamo then spent years criticizing.