{"id":2251922,"date":"2026-01-26T23:04:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T23:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2251922"},"modified":"2026-01-26T23:04:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T23:04:26","slug":"universals-illumination-entertainment-nintendo-drop-the-super-mario-galaxy-movie-trailer-bowing-in-theaters-april-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/universals-illumination-entertainment-nintendo-drop-the-super-mario-galaxy-movie-trailer-bowing-in-theaters-april-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal&#8217;s Illumination Entertainment, Nintendo Drop &#8216;The Super Mario Galaxy Movie&#8217; Trailer, Bowing in Theaters April 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-328895\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Super Mario Galaxy Movie | Yoshi First Look\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SA9ohTuGl4Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<p class=\"author-name\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaplaynews.com\/author\/egruenwedel\/\" title=\"Posts by Erik Gruenwedel\" class=\"author url fn\" rel=\"author\">Erik Gruenwedel<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-date\">January 26, 2026<\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- --><\/p>\n<p>Universal Pictures\u2019 Illumination and Nintendo have dropped the first movie trailer for the upcoming April 1 theatrical release of <em>The Super Mario Galaxy Movie<\/em>. The animated movie will be released in Japan on April 24.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the \u201cSuper Mario Bros.\u201d video game franchise, <em>Galaxy<\/em> follows 2023\u2019s <i>The Super Mario Bros. Movie<\/i>, which generated more than $1.3 billion in revenue worldwide.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_328949\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-328949\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-328949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The Super Mario Galaxy Movie<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Both movies are produced by Chris Meledandri of Illumination and Shigeru Miyamoto of Nintendo. The film is co-financed by Universal Pictures and Nintendo, and will be released worldwide by Universal Pictures.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Super Mario Galaxy Movie<\/i>\u00a0is directed by returning filmmakers Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, from a screenplay by returning screenwriter Matthew Fogel, with Brian Tyler returning to compose the score.<\/p>\n<p>The film stars Chris Pratt as Mario, Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach, Charlie Day as Luigi, Jack Black as Bowser, Keegan-Michael Key as Toad, Benny Safdie as Bowser Jr., Kevin Michael Richardson as Kamek, and Brie Larson as Rosalina.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/dgLnU5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Subscribe HERE to the FREE\u00a0<em>Media Play News<\/em>\u00a0Daily Newsletter!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"rp4wp-related-posts\">\n<h3>Related Posts<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"rp4wp-related-post-content\">\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaplaynews.com\/the-super-mario-bros-movie-begins-streaming-on-peacock\/\">&#8216;The Super Mario Bros. Movie&#8217; Begins Streaming on Peacock<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s top-grossing theatrical release thus far in 2023, Universal Pictures\/Illumination&#8217;s The Super Mario Bros. Movie, is now streaming on the Peacock Premium paid streaming platform. The animated film, which features a voice cast that includes Chris Pratt, Charlie Day,\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t<!-- .entry-footer -->\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.mediaplaynews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erik Gruenwedel January 26, 2026 Universal Pictures\u2019 Illumination and Nintendo have dropped the first movie trailer for the upcoming April 1 theatrical release of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. The animated movie will be released in Japan on April 24. Based on the \u201cSuper Mario Bros.\u201d video game franchise, Galaxy follows 2023\u2019s The Super Mario [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2251923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[435983,348865,435984,320410],"class_list":["post-2251922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-illumination-entertainment","tag-nintendo","tag-the-super-mario-galaxy-movie","tag-universal-pictures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769468665_Universals-Illumination-Entertainment-Nintendo-Drop-The-Super-Mario-Galaxy-Movie.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2251922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2251924,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251922\/revisions\/2251924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2251923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}