This weekend saw Mario Day arrive, appropriately enough, on March 10—Mar10, Mario; get it?—and Nintendo had some announcements to go along with it. Chief among them was the reveal of a new Super Mario Bros. animated film, serving as a followup to the smash hit …Read more »
Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron, Makoto Shinkai’s Suzume and The Super Mario Bros. Movie have just been nominated for several awards, and sometimes they’re in competition with one another. First off, The Boy and the Heron and The Super Mario Bros. Movie are …Read more »
Hayao Miyazaki just won a Golden Globe for The Boy and the Heron, the first time an anime has received such an award. The next question many people are asking: can The Boy and the Heron, or another anime movie, take home an Oscar? The …Read more »
The nominees are out for the Saturn Awards, which is the “official awards group of The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films” for more than half a century! There are three otaku interests among the titles. The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Suzume …Read more »
The two 2023 movies doing best in Japan this year are The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Detective Conan: Kurogane no Submarine (translated as Detective Conan: Iron Submarine). In fact, they’ve basically tied in how much money they’ve earned, with each raking in about $95 …Read more »
This ain’t no game: it’s a live-action thrill ride. Super Mario Bros., the much maligned, highly underrated 1993 film based on the video game series, will be shown in theaters across Japan for its 30th anniversary. The screenings, ostensibly inspired by the success of that …Read more »
The Super Mario Bros. Movie has been a global blockbuster, and it has a new claim to fame: it has now out-earned Frozen at the box office! The Super Mario Bros. Movie has brought in $1,288,321,030 and is still going. Frozen, on the other hand, …Read more »
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is currently in theaters, but at least nine million people also watched it on Twitter. This is because of an illegal, pirated upload put up by the Twitter handle “vids that go hard.” Every time a few minutes passed, about …Read more »
The Super Mario Bros. Movie has officially raked in more than one billion dollars in less than a month, and the worldwide blockbuster just opened in Japan. Shigeru Miyamoto, Mario’s original creator, spoke with the Japanese press about the movie. “At first, I drew him …Read more »
Ticket sales for The Super Mario Bros. Movie dropped 41% since its opening weekend, but that doesn’t mean it’s doing poorly. It was the number one movie in the box office for the second weekend in a row, bringing in another $87 million and crushing …Read more »
After the massive opening weekend success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Rolling Stone interviewed original creator Shigeru Miyamoto and original composer Koji Kondo to talk about what made the movie work. A lot of credit went to Illumination, the studio they worked with. “Our …Read more »
The people behind The Super Mario Bros. Movie were hoping they could have the biggest opening for a feature film based on a video game. But as the movie’s opening weekend is over and the numbers are being crunched, we can safely say it succeeded …Read more »
The Super Mario Bros. Movie from Nintendo and Illumination is here! According to Deadline, it netted about $26 million during its first day (and this doesn’t include previews that took place Tuesday). Crunching numbers, pundits are expecting it to bring in $127.5M from yesterday (Wednesday …Read more »
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is set to open on April 7 in the U.S. and April 28 in Japan, and ahead of that we’re going to get one more good look at the adventure to come. Nintendo announced plans to host a Nintendo Direct …Read more »
During the Super Bowl yesterday a new commercial dropped for the upcoming The Super Mario Bros. Movie from Nintendo and Illumination. But instead of being a trailer showing clips of the movie, it’s a silly ad for the Super Mario Bros. Plumbing company. It includes …Read more »
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