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‘Ruiner’ Video Game Movie in the Works from Universal, Wes Ball
Wes Ball is set to direct an adaptation of Reikon’s popular video game Ruiner for Universal Pictures, with Michael Arlen Ross on board to pen a screenplay. Universal Pictures picked up the adaptation rights for the action shooter game, and tapped Ball, whose credits include Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes and the Maze Runner trilogy […]
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Chris Pratt Explains How ‘Garfield’ Voice is Different From His Past Animated Characters: “Going Back to Andy Dwyer From ‘Parks and Rec'”
After voicing the leads in The Lego Movie franchise, The Super Mario Bros. Movie and now The Garfield Movie, Chris Pratt has established himself as a go-to voice for iconic animated characters. But after doing these multiple roles, how does he make each voice unique? At the Los Angeles premiere of Garfield on Sunday, Pratt […]
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‘Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Announces Sequel Set for 2026 With Same Directors
The Super Marios Bros Movie will return with a sequel, Nintendo announced on Sunday. The film, set for release on April 3, 2026, will come almost exactly three years after the release of the original movie. Nintendo game director Shigeru Miyamoto and Illumination’s Chris Meledandri announced the news during a Mario Day video, celebrated annually […]
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Anime and ‘Godzilla Minus One’ Push Japan’s Box Office Higher in 2023
Japan’s box office climbed 4 percent to a post-pandemic high of $1.5 billion (221.5 billion yen) in 2023, driven again by a strong slate of anime and a steady return to theaters. Hollywood films maintained the same market share of around 31 percent as the previous year, though a very weak yen reduced earnings in […]
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Streaming Ratings: ‘Young Sheldon,’ ‘Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Reap the Netflix Effect
Three weeks after premiering on Netflix, Young Sheldon has ascended to the most watched show on streaming platforms in the United States. A platform switch to Netflix also sent The Super Mario Bros. Movie to its biggest streaming week to date. The two titles, which rank second and third on Nielsen’s streaming chart for the […]
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2023 Box Office: Global Revenue Clears Estimated $33.9B in 31 Percent Gain Over Prior Year
It was a Barbenheimer and Super Mario world in 2023. Barbie, The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Oppenheimer led the pack of films propelling global box office revenue to $33.9 billion, according to estimates released Thursday by leading U.K.-based analytics firm Gower Street. That’s a gain of 31 percent over 2022, but was 15 percent […]
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Where to Stream the Golden Globes-Nominated ‘Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Online
Previously available on Peacock, the Nintendo video game-inspired box office smash earned three awards nominations and is available to watch on Prime Video with exclusive bonus content.
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French Cinema Admissions Rise 19 Percent in 2023, But Remain Below Pre-COVID Numbers
France closed out the cinema year on a high note, recording 181 million theater admissions for 2023, a 18.9 percent jump compared with 2022. The official box office figures, released Tuesday by state cinema body CNC, are still down double digits — 13.1 percent — from average admissions in the pre-COVID years between 2017 and […]
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2023 Box Office: Domestic Revenue Clears $9B in Post-Pandemic First (Thanks, Barbenheimer)
Phew. Domestic box office revenue was able to clear $9 billion after all, despite a dismal fall season at the multiplex, according to Comscore. That’s the best showing of the post-pandemic era, with revenue in U.S. and Canada up 20 percent over 2022’s $7.5 billion. But movie ticket sales are still down sharply from pre-pandemic […]
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Everything Is Peachy With Jack Black: Actor-Singer on Hit ‘Super Mario Bros.’ Song, ‘School of Rock’ Turning 20, Taylor Swift and AI
Jack Black’s performance of the emotional piano rock ballad “Peaches” as Bowser leveled up the box office hit The Super Mario Bros. Movie when it released earlier this year. But the hit song almost never happened. Black says when he signed on to the film, which hit theaters in April, music wasn’t part of the […]
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Box Office: $4 Ticket Day Boosts ‘Blue Beetle’ and ‘Ninja Turtles’
The results are in for the second annual National Cinema Day. On Sunday, more than 3,000 theaters across the U.S. and Canada offered patrons the chance to see any movie in the theater, in any format, for only $4. That’s a huge discount, considering the average movie ticket price is at least $10.53, while the […]
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Movie Theaters Offering $4 Tickets on Aug. 27 for Second Annual National Cinema Day
National Cinema Day is back in time to ring out summer. On Aug. 27 — a Sunday — thousands of theaters across the U.S. will slash movie ticket prices to $4 or less for any title in any format. The second annual National Cinema Day hopes to build on the success of a similar offering […]
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