'The Super Mario Bros. Movie' Sets Netflix Streaming Date

The four months on Peacock are up! Now it's onto Netflix!

Okay so apparently things are going to be a little different. It’s almost been 4 months since this year’s billion-dollar hit The Super Mario Bros. Movie finally hit Peacock, which means the next phase of its pay-1 window is set to begin. But it’s not going to Prime Video, but Netflix. Yeah that’s my oversight. It’s probably just the live action that goes to Prime Video while Illumination and DreamWorks go to Netflix.

Wasting no time, The Super Mario Bros. Movie arrives on Netflix on December 3. Fortunately, it’s not leaving Peacock either, allowing all the special features its arrival came with to remain accessible on the streamer. The announcement comes just a little over a week after Sony Pictures Animation’s 2023 release, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, arrived on the service following its own impressive ox office performance. Originally opening April 5-7 for most of the world, The Super Mario Bros. Movie would earn the biggest opening weekend of the year and earned $204 million in the first five days of release. That has culminated in over $1.3 billion ($573.6 million US/Canada, $777.4 million elsewhere) for its entiire theatrical run, making it the highest-grossing video game adaptation of all time, the year's highest grossing film, and the third-highest grossing animated film in history. The film comes from Universal Pictures, Illumination Entertainment and Nintendo, based on the long-running video game franchise.

An origin story for the two Brooklyn plumbers, brothers and best friends Mario and Luigi, voiced by Chris Pratt and Charlie Day, their plumbing business is struggling when they wind up in a whirlwind adventure through Mushroom Kingdom, meeting familiar characters and uniting together to defeat the power-hungry Bowser, voiced by Jack Black.

The movie also stars Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach, Keegan-Michael Key as Toad, and Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong, with supporting roles from Fred Armisen as Cranky Kong, Sebastian Maniscalco as Spike, Kevin Michael Richardson, Khary Payton and Charles Martinet as Mario and Luigi’s dad and Giuseppe, in his final roles for the franchise before retiring. It was directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, with a script by Matthew Fogel. Pierre Leduc and Fabien Polack served as co-directors. Illumination’s Chris Meledandri and Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto produce, with Brett Hoffman, Bill Ryan, and Yusuke Beppu serving as executive producers.

Source: Deadline