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Illumination founder and CEO Chris Meledandri and Nintendo Co., Ltd. announced that the title of the Super Mario Bros sequel will be The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.
The movie’s previously announced release date of April 3, 2026, via Universal, remains unchanged. That’s the U.S. date and select territories. The pic hits Japan on April 24, 2026 with select offshore territories opening throughout April.
In addition, it was announced that the returning voice actors for the characters will be: Mario (Chris Pratt), Princess Peach (Anya Taylor-Joy), Luigi (Charlie Day), Bowser (Jack Black), Toad (Keegan-Michael Key), and Kamek (Kevin Michael Richardson).
Additional characters and voice cast forThe Super Mario Galaxy Moviewill be announced down the road. The sequel was announced in March 2024.
Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic are directing from a screenplay by Matthew Fogel.
The movie is being co-financed byUniversalPictures and Nintendo and distributed theatrically worldwide by Universal.
Melendandri and Shigeru Miyamoto, Representative Director, Fellow of Nintendo are producing.
Super Mario Bros Movie, released in 2023, is the third highest grossing animated movie ever at the global box office with $1.36 billion. The movie opened over Easter and posted the second best 3-day for the holiday at $166.4M stateside behind Batman v. Superman ($181M). Deadline exclusively reported that the movie netted $559M in profit after all downstream revenues.