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NBCUniversal’s 2025 Upfront Showcases Expansive Entertainment, Sports and News Offerings

NBCUniversal’s 2025 Upfront Showcases Expansive Entertainment, Sports and News Offerings

www.nbcuniversal.com

An exciting range of films from Universal Pictures, Focus Features, DreamWorks Animation and Illumination were presented, including Megan 2.0, Nobody 2, Bad Guys 2, How to Train Your Dragon, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, Black Phone 2, HIM, The Phoenician Scheme, Super Mario World, Shrek, and Minions.

 

[cash_longfellow]

That's original!

 

[Come On Tars]

I like it. Name the movies the same as the games if you can

 

[VaultBoy101]

I like it. Name the movies the same as the games if you can

So, for example...Super Mario Brothers 2?

 

[kevboard]

what if this is all a setup for Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island????

 

[Adapting]

 

[Dirk Benedict]

I'll watch it in Japanese.

 

[AJUMP23]

Should name it smb3. Add hill sliding.

 

[kevboard]

I'll watch it in Japanese.

it would be funny if they called it Super Mario Bros 4: Super Mario World in japan, just as a joke

 

[Pimpbaa]

Should have made a SMB2. Take a completely different movie that has nothing to do with the Mario franchise and then stick Mario characters in everywhere in place of the old characters.

 

[saintjules]

Finally...

Spoiler

/s

 

[blacktout]

I didn't enjoy the original movie enough to want to see the sequel, but I do like that Nintendo is returning to the "World" branding with this and Mario Kart World. It's nice when their names convey some sense of grandeur and scope rather than just slapping a number or "New" onto an existing brand.

 

[MrCunningham]

Finally...

Spoiler

/s

No joke. I actually saw the original Super Mario Bros. movie at the theatre when I was like 12, on its opening day back in 1993. I saw it with a friend, and the theatre was practically empty except for maybe half a dozen other people. There were these two kids who were younger than me throwing popcorn and cheap candy at each other for half of the film. They weren't even watching the movie. One kid literally hit me in the head with a 5cent chewable candy.

I feel like, I am one of the few who actually paid money to watch the movie at the cinema. Because it bombed hard at the box office. When I was 12, I hated it. I thought it looked 'cheap' and generic... the only elements that I liked were Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo... I guess Dennis Hopper was mildly amusing too.

These days, I don;t hate the movie as much as I did back then. I think I was just spoiled. Fuck. I sat in the same theatre a week later to watch another movie featuring Dinosaurs called: Jurassic Park. Jurassic Park played to a full house on opening night. It was so full that people were sitting on the side isles because there were no seats left. The owner of the cinema gave no fucks.

 

[Pasta la Vista]

Finally...

Spoiler

/s

There's a documentary about the making of this movie, it's pretty hilarious, basically everyone hated working on it.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

There's a documentary about the making of this movie, it's pretty hilarious, basically everyone hated working on it.

I still have a newfound appreciation for the movie.

 

[ntropy]

check the link again, the listing of the movie is gone

 

[Shubh_C63]

If they naming as per game names, then omg. At this rate I don't think we will live to watch 63 Mario movies.

 

[Robb]

Looking forward to seeing what they do with it.

 

[Trunx81]

Finally...

Spoiler

/s

Still a better film than A Minecraft Movie

 

[ValiantInstance]

The first movie was made with a suprising amount of care, plenty of great references to the older games throughout. No politically correct nonsense either. Looking forward to this.

 

[E-Cat]

Should name it smb3. Add hill sliding.

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