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By Ali'sha Harris|June 18, 2024|0 Comment
A big, 40-minute Nintendo Direct is set to air tonight. Still, before the main event, Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto took to the company’s Japanese Twitter/X account to reveal the release date of the next Super Mario animated film in Japan. The tweet reads: “Hello, this is Miyamoto. We will be broadcasting a Nintendo Direct tonight, but bef...
By Alleef Ashaari|March 10, 2024|1 Comment
We're almost one year after the premiere of Nintendo and Illumination Entertainment's Super Mario Bros. animated movie back in April 2023. Now, Nintendo has finally confirmed that there will be a new animated movie based on the world of Super Mario Bros. planned for release on 3 April 2026. https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/176681533458...
Due to the success of the Super Mario Bros. Movie (grossing US$1 billion worldwide since April, by the by), it's only natural for publisher Nintendo to start using its other IPs for the big screen. The next logical choice would be The Legend of Zelda, and it seems as if things are going the way of our blonde elf hero Link and his adversary Ganon...
By Alleef Ashaari|May 15, 2023|0 Comment
The Super Mario Bros. Movie will launch on digital platforms on 16 May 2023 in the United States of America (USA). You can pre-order the Super Mario Bros. Movie on Amazon (and other Universal-backed digital platforms) for US$29.99, which will be available from 16 May 2023 at 12 am ET (which is 12 pm GMT+8 on 16 May 2023 in Southeast Asian countries...
Play all the victory fanfares for Mario here; Nintendo, Universal, and Illumination have hit the question block jackpot! The Super Mario Bros. Movie has levelled up its worldwide box office earnings to beyond US$1 billion since its 6th April launch. The film has been showing in theatres worldwide for more than three weeks. The film has become...
By Jon Leo|April 18, 2023|10 Comments
Review originally published on 7th April 2023. Brought forward to coincide with the film's release in Malaysia on 20th April. 30 years ago, Nintendo was traumatized from ever making live-action film adaptations of its treasured properties after the disaster that was the Super Mario Bros. movie in 1993. The company could have taken the same sta...
*cue Mario victory theme when you touch the flagpole We previously brought up huge opening sales numbers of the Super Mario Bros. film when it aired on 6th April onward. Now we can confirm that those numbers are beyond the millions worldwide, to nobody's surprise. The Super Mario Bros. Movie passes US$500 million on a global scale, becoming t...
Mama mia! Nintendo and Illumination's first film adaptation of the Super Mario Bros. franchise since 1993 has raked in US$203 million for the past 5 days in US markets (US$146+ for the first three days, another US$57 million as of right now). The film came out on 6th April. The movie's overall overseas box office sales are at US$173 million (exc...
If you want to hear awesome remixes of Koji Kondo's 80s and 90s Mario music, look no further than this recent Spotify update. Digital music streaming services like Spotify has released the Super Mario Bros. Movie soundtrack on Spotify. No, not the licensed music nonsense: the show's actual soundtrack that features Koji Kondo's music arranged by ...
By Jon Leo|April 7, 2023|2 Comments
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is out now in the US and most parts of the world, but it's only coming out in Malaysia on 20th April. It's worth the wait especially if you're a big Nintendo gaming fan; here's our review. As such, you can expect a heckaton of Nintendo-filled homages, references, easter eggs, and callbacks in the film. Here's a list o...
By Alleef Ashaari|February 13, 2023|0 Comment
During Super Bowl 2023, the Super Mario Bros. Movie unveiled a new teaser ad featuring the infamous Mario Rap from the Super Mario Bros. Super Show! It was a live-action animated hybrid TV series that originally aired back in 1989. What's funny is that the number for Super Mario Bros. Plumbing (that's featured in the teaser) actually works if yo...
Nintendo and Illumination's upcoming Super Mario Bros. Movie is coming out later this April, and we're seeing the marketing machine starting its promo up. This means a ton of lovely posters featuring our heroes and villains. We'll post up the ones that are up recently as well as some old ones from last year. We definitely dig the new ones featur...
By Alleef Ashaari|January 30, 2023|0 Comment
We're only a few months away from the upcoming Super Mario Bros. animated movie from Illumination and a new teaser has finally revealed Seth Rogen's voice as Donkey Kong. What does he sound like? Well, he sounds exactly like... himself. Seth Rogen is essentially being Seth Rogen in the role, but that's not a surprise. The brief teaser also revea...
Nintendo just revealed the second Super Mario Bros. Movie trailer, featuring the first appearances of Donkey Kong and Princess Peach. Donkey Kong is voiced by Seth Rogen while Princess Peach is voiced by Anya Taylor-Joy, who was last seen in the black comedy satire film The Menu. The trailer spotlights her role in being a competent ruler of the ...
Nintendo will premiere the second Super Mario Bros. Movie trailer tomorrow on Tuesday. The trailer will be out in a special Nintendo Direct on 30th November 6am GMT+8. Based on the teaser image below, we will be getting the debut movie appearance of Princess Peach, voiced by Anya Taylor-Joy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohJrpHUoZ10 http...
Nintendo of America has unveiled the first look at the upcoming Mario Bros. movie. And it looks about as faithful as it can get as a Nintendo film using the plumber's visage and world. The trailer features Bowser (Jack Black) in the gruffest voice possible torching down an ice kingdom ruled by penguins. It then cuts to Mario (Chris Pr...
By Alleef Ashaari|October 4, 2022|0 Comment
The Super Mario Bros Movie is getting its own Nintendo Direct presentation on 7 October 2022 at 4.05 am GMT+8. It will introduce the world premiere of the animated movie's first trailer. However, Nintendo also confirmed that this Nintendo Direct live stream will not be featuring any video game news or information at all. Back in April 2022, N...
By Alleef Ashaari|June 28, 2022|1 Comment
There's no denying how much of a commercial juggernaut the Despicable Me or Minions franchise is. Both 2015's Minions and 2017's Despicable Me 3 garnered more than US$1 billion worldwide during their respective releases. With the new Minions The Rise Of Gru, it's pretty much what you'd expect from another installment in the series: a fun ride fo...
You can't keep a long-anticipated movie like Nintendo's animated Mario film a secret for too long. After being delayed to 2023 via an official word from Shigeru Miyamoto, plot details for the film have allegedly leak (via ResetEra). We won't spoil anything in these earlier paragraphs; scroll down if you want to see the full synopsis. Here's the ...
By Jon Leo|April 26, 2022|2 Comments
Sad news for those expecting to watch the new Super Mario Bros. movie this holiday season. Nintendo of America has announced that it's pushing back the Illumination-produced film from its holiday release period to Spring 2023. The film will be out on 28 April in Japan and 7 April in North America. As the holiday period is pretty important for ki...
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