Despite some mean critic reviews, The Super Mario Bros. Movie still managed to earn more than a billion in the box office, and is set to be one of the highest-earning animated films of all time.

Though the film marks a huge success for Illumination, Disney CEO Bob Iger says the film’s achievements are good for the movie industry overall. During an earnings call (via Video Games Chronicle), Iger said, ““Good afternoon everyone… Allow me to digress for a moment to congratulate Universal for the tremendous success of Super Mario Bros.. It certainly proves people love to be entertained in theaters around the world, and it gives us reason to be optimistic about the movie business.”

Admittedly, there has been a huge debate on whether movies are still going to be viable in theaters, but the numbers for Super Mario reveal that audiences are still very willing to come to cinemas post-pandemic.

Super Mario’s success is also particularly huge for animated films in general. With Disney delegating Pixar movies like Luca and Turning Red to straight-to-streaming releases, a lot of audiences thought that the studio had lost their fate in animation, but Super Mario pretty much proves that animated films can still make bank in the box office.

Here’s the movie synopsis:

A Brooklyn plumber named Mario travels through the Mushroom Kingdom with a princess named Peach and an anthropomorphic mushroom named Toad to find Mario’s brother, Luigi, and to save the world from a ruthless fire-breathing Koopa named Bowser.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie is set to release on digital in five days.