‘Super Mario Bros’: Illumination Nintendo Movie Heads To Easter Weekend 2023
deadline.comUniversal and Illumination’s Nintendo movie Super Mario Bros about the famed videogame plumbers, kart drivers and squashers of turtles is zipping from its Dec.
21 release date this year to April 7, 2023, which is Easter weekend.I hear the move simply stems from optimizing the family audience for that film on that holiday.
Meanwhile, Universal will backfill Dec. 21 with Dreamworks Animation’s highly anticipated sequel, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish; that pic moving from its Sept.
23 release date.Mario will now go up against Sony’s untitled George Forman biopic and an untitled WB Event movie.The Super Mario videogame franchise for Nintendo has grossed well north of $30 billion according to reports.Directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic (collaborators on Teen Titans Go!, Teen Titans Go!
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