{"id":132988,"date":"2023-04-07T04:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T04:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-147692"},"modified":"2023-04-07T04:25:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T04:25:00","slug":"mario-movie-just-the-beginning-of-nintendo-illuminations-rewarding-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/04\/07\/mario-movie-just-the-beginning-of-nintendo-illuminations-rewarding-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Movie Just The Beginning Of Nintendo &amp; Illumination&#8217;s &#8220;Rewarding Collaboration&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/67aa77460668c\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/67aa77460668c\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"The Super Mario Bros. Movie\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/67aa77460668c\/the-super-mario-bros-movie.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/67aa77460668c\/the-super-mario-bros-movie.900x.jpg\" alt=\"The Super Mario Bros. Movie\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo, Illumination<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s still early days but The Super Mario Bros. Movie is already shaping up to be a <em>huge<\/em> success based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2023\/04\/mario-movies-opening-box-office-predicted-to-be-the-biggest-of-2023-so-far\">industry predictions<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2023\/04\/the-mario-movie-has-top-animated-launch-day-ever-in-multiple-countries\">early box office data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For Nintendo and Illumination, it means the partnership will likely continue on. During an interview with Screenrant, Nintendo&#8217;s Shigeru Miyamoto confirmed this &#8211; mentioning how he was &#8220;sure&#8221; the two companies would stick together going forward.<\/p>\n<p>Illumination CEO and founder Chris Meledandri reaffirmed this, going on to describe the partnership with Nintendo as &#8220;a really rewarding collaboration&#8221;. He also noted how he had previously been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2021\/05\/illumination_founder_chris_meledandri_set_to_join_nintendo_board\">invited to join the Nintendo board of directors<\/a> and said the companies were already &#8220;working together into the future&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve already seen the Mario Movie, this news probably isn&#8217;t a surprise that there&#8217;s more to come, but it also means there could be much more than just Mario on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>Although Miyamoto and Meledandri both seem to be interested in working together again in the future, right now they agree there&#8217;s &#8220;nothing&#8221; they can really share at this time about any other Nintendo themed projects.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/super-mario\/related-articles:147653,147632 @ 2023-04-08T04:12:00+01:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>What kind of movie would you like to see from Nintendo and Illumination beyond Mario? Give us your thoughts below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo, Illumination It&#8217;s still early days but The Super Mario Bros. Movie is already shaping up to be a huge success based on industry predictions and early box office data. For Nintendo and Illumination, it means the partnership will likely continue on. During an interview with Screenrant, Nintendo&#8217;s Shigeru Miyamoto confirmed this &#8211; mentioning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}