‘Super Mario Bros. Movie’: Top 10 Easter Eggs and References to the Games
variety.comSPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” in theaters now. With “The Super Mario Bros Movie,” Mario has officially entered Hollywood, as the adventurous mustachioed plumber takes on Bowser alongside Princess Peach for the first time on the big screen.
The animated blockbuster from Illumination, Nintendo and Universal has shoveled in a whopping $400 million and counting within its first week at the global box office, shattering records and scoring the biggest worldwide opening for an animated film.
The last time Super Mario Bros. was adapted into a film was in 1993, when Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel’s gritty live-action take on the video game franchise strayed a little too far from the source material for general audiences.
In Variety‘s cover story featuring Chris Meledandri, CEO of Illumination, and Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Super Mario Bros., “The Super Mario Bros.
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