Super Mario Bros. movie is in the making, as per details revealed by Nintendo. While there is no official release date as yet, makers are striving to premier the film in theatres on April 3, 2026, as per a report in dexerto.
The upcoming Super Mario Bros. film is set to be produced once again by Illumination which backed the original film in 2023. Surpassing many predictions, the 2023 film emerged as the second-highest-earning movie of the year, dexerto reported.
Meanwhile, a company that was sued by Nintendo for creating software that allowed the mass pirating of video games agreed to pay the «Super Mario» maker $2.4 million in damages and shutter the tool, AP reported earlier in March.
The company behind «Legend of Zelda» and «Donkey Kong» sued Tropic Haze, registered in the US state of Rhode Island, which owns and runs Yuzu, a popular video game emulator.
A video game emulator is a piece of software that can be downloaded onto a PC or smartphone to play video games intended for a specific console, such as the Switch, PlayStation or Xbox.
Initially, emulators were developed to play games that were no longer published on the latest consoles, before vintage gaming became a market in its own right for Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft.
According to a settlement filed with the US federal court in Rhode Island, the defendant agreed to no longer make Yuzu available to the public and hand over all its programming code to Nintendo.
Nintendo would also take