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Charles Martinet has been the voice of Nintendo's mascot Mario since 1996, but no more. Nintendo has announced that the actor is to step down from the role, and will instead act as a «Mario ambassador» in the future, which is all rather ceremonial and full of pomp for a gig that mainly involves shouting «wa-hoo!»

The film adaptation of The Legend of Zelda is being made in the "closest possible collaboration" with Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto. The chairman of Sony Motion Pictures, which is producing the film, adds that Miyamoto is a "true genius", citing the success of the Super Mario Bros. movie.

Danny DeVito has revealed in a recent interview that he'd be up for playing the role of Wario in a future Super Mario Bros. Movie project, something that fans have been wanting ever since the movie was first announced.

teased his future in the superhero genre as Star-Lord beyond Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 as well as the potential for starring in James Gunn’s DC Universe. Here’s what Chris Pratt said about returning as Star-Lord playing a DCU role.

For as long as video games have existed, film producers have adapted them for the big screen. The rationale behind these decisions is clear, as big-name video game properties have the potential to bring a lot of fans into the theater. But they have seen limited success over the years.

Jack Black is highly known for his role in many different popular movies, one of them being his role as Bowser in the Super Mario Bros Movie starring Chris Pratt. Recently, Black took to social media to ask the question of why Grand Theft Auto or Red Dead Redemption don’t have movies yet in this day and age after the video games popularity.

Scarlett Johansson is trading the Avengers for dinosaurs.

The Super Mario Bros. Moviewill be getting a sequel… of some sort. Nintendo and animation studio Illumination have announced that they’re re-teaming on a second film “based on the world of Super Mario Bros.” to be released on April 3, 2026.

A new film set in The Super Mario Bros. Movie universe has been announced. Described as “a new animated film based on the world of Super Mario Bros.,” it is unclear if it will be a direct sequel or a spin-off of the highly successful 2023 movie starring Chris Pratt and Jack Black. However, we do know it will be released on April 3, 2026, and that Illumination is once again the studio behind the animation. The end credits of the 2023 film teased Yoshi, so that could be the direction it is going.

The new Jurassic World movie coming in 2025 has finally found its director after David Leitch exited the movie.

Jurassic 4 has found a new director: Gareth Edwards has stepped in to take over from David Leitch after the Bullet Train helmer dropped out of the project mere days after his involvement was announced. 

The Super Bowl may be the annual culmination of the NFL season, but it has also long since swelled into being a stage for all sorts of matters of cultural importance. There’s the adorable Puppy Bowl, and a kid-friendly Nickelodeon presence complete with a SpongeBob concert inspired by “Band Geeks.” But one of the most important ancillary Super Bowl draws is all of the high-budget commercials and trailers that launch alongside the event. These ads range from actively cringe to genuinely clever, so we’ve collected this year’s highlights.

A is in the works, with a writer who has experience with the franchise already lined-up.

Welcome to Polygon’s first weekend special of the new year. The pickings are a bit slim as we kick off 2024, but we’ve still managed to scrounge up a couple of deals you should check out. For the uninitiated, every weekend at Polygon we present to you a roundup of our favorite deals from the past week in gaming and entertainment, along with some of the best-selling products that have recently graced our site.

In an age of successful movies based on video game characters like Mario, Sonic, and Nathan Drake, it was perhaps inevitable that we would get a Minecraft movie starring Jack Black as unassuming player-insert Steve. The actor confirmed the casting on Instagram in a suitably silly style; the film is targeting a 2025 release.

Remember 2023? The answer can be no. It was a lot. Between a deluge of major games — Tears of the Kingdom, Diablo IV, Baldur’s Gate 3, Armored Core 6, and Starfield, to name a few — the eclipsing cultural moment of Barbenheimer, the writer and actor strikes, the morphing of Twitter into X, the multi-pronged legal action against the Microsoft-Activision acquisition, and the rise of AI, the year in Culture was a constant drone of milestone moments.

The Garfield Movie is getting its own video game.

Aquaman's James Wan looks to be making a movie based on one of H.P. Lovecraft's most iconic horror stories, The Call of Cthulhu – which, in turn, is going to be adapted into a video game. 

Garfield is making a return to the silver screen next year with The Garfield Movie, with Chris Pratt voicing the lasagne-loving feline himself. However, that movie won't be the end of Garfield's exploits in the future, as it was revealed that a video game spinoff is currently in development, which will more than likely release before or alongside the movie's launch.

Hideo Kojima revealed today that film and television production company A24, whose previous projects include Midsommar and Everything Everywhere All At Once, is collaborating with Kojima Productions on the Death Stranding film project.

Welcome to the busiest moviegoing season of the year, when films in theaters are actually worth trekking out to see and everything hitting VOD and streaming is… the movies that came out a few months ago that are also super worth checking out. Ack!

I have said it before and I will say it again, Jack Black is the gift that keeps on giving.

With the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) strike now over, has been cast as in ’s new Netflix movie.

Maybe this new Fanatical deal will make Mondays better.

The first trailer for The Garfield movie is here – and the internet has mixed reactions to our first look at Chris Pratt's performance as the titular animated orange cat. 

After a blockbuster turn as the voice of Mario, Chris Pratt, the man of at least two voices, will bring Garfield to life in next summer’s The Garfield Movie. In the first trailer for Garfield’s third major cinematic outing, we get an origin story for the grumpy orange cat and his obsession with (or deep emotional attachment to) Italian food.

The Super Mario Bros Movie will be coming to Netflix in December in the US.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie is headed to Netflix just in time for the holiday season.

How tall is Link? It’s a question that’s puzzled scientists for eons.

The Legend of Zelda movie adaption is officially in development, so naturally speculation is rife as to who will play the two lead roles of Link and Princess Zelda.

Nintendo has started development on a live-action The Legend of Zelda movie that will be produced by Morbius, Spider-Verse, and Uncharted producer Avi Arad.

Nintendo has officially confirmed that a live-actionLegend of Zelda movie is in development, with series creator Shigeru Miyamoto serving as a producer alongside Avi Arad, who was also a producer of Morbius, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (and its sequel), and The Amazing Spider-Man films. 

The Legend of Zelda is getting a live-action adaptation. After years of rumours, Nintendo has finally confirmed that it's working on a movie set in the enchanted lands of Hyrule, co-produced by the gaming giant and Avi Arad, who's behind the recent Spider-Man spin-off films. Wes Ball — best known for the Maze Runner trilogy — is attached to direct, which isn't being received well by fans of the franchise. Of course, Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto is deeply involved in the project in a producer capacity, just like he was for The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

Hollywood's Avi Arad and Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto are teaming up to bring Zelda fans everywhere a live-action film based on the beloved ‘The Legend of Zelda’ series.

In the new issue of Total Film, which hits shelves next week, legendary director Zack Snyder reveals that his upcoming movie, Rebel Moon, is like a mash-up of the classic Western movie The Magnificent Seven and the beloved World War II film The Dirty Dozen. "I said it was like a cross between The Dirty Dozen and The Magnificent Seven set in space,” the director says. 

When it comes to big game releases, many people want to know not just what led to the game’s success but what elements were inspired by other games or media. After all, there are no new ideas out there, but you can get clever with showcasing things so they’re not directly tied to what came before. In the case of Super Mario Bros Wonder, they had many things to be inspired by, including a younger development team pointing out what to do so that the game could shine. However, they also had the recent animated adaptation of Mario and crew to showcase how things should move.

Despite being one of the cutest faces in the roster of characters, Yoshi has been almost neglected as of late, with Nintendo really underusing the iconic dinosaur in comparison to its other characters. This is especially true when it comes to the most modern media such as the and the upcoming Nintendo Switch game,. While Donkey Kong and Princess Peach enjoy the spotlight, Nintendo seems determined to send Yoshi to the shadows.

It’s official: we have a new voice actor for Mario! And no, it isn’t Chris Pratt. Rumors swirled about who might take up the Italian plumber’s big shoes after longtime voice Charles Martinet announced his departure from the role. Well, it’s now confirmed that Mario, as well as Luigi, will be played by voice actor Kevin Afghani in Super Mario Bros. Wonder. It’s unknown if he will play the role in future titles.

The new voice of Mario has been revealed: Kevin Afghani is the actor behind Mario (and Luigi) in Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Nintendo confirmed on Friday. Afghani replaces actor Charles Martinet, who provided Mario’s chipper wahoos and it’s-a-mes for more than 25 years.

Some people out there may already know who the new voice of Mario is.

Nintendo and Illumination’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie is the second-highest-grossing movie of the year, just behind the box-office phenomenon known as Barbie. The logical question to ask of Nintendo’s partnership with the maker of Minions and Despicable Me is: What’s next?

The is around the corner, and fans are wondering when they can start streaming the documentary.

visual effects production supervisor Stephane Ceretti has spoken about filming Rocket’s intense flashbacks from the Marvel Studios sequel.

Whether we like it or not, the role of Mario is no longer solely owned by Charles Martinet. He has been the gaming icon’s voice for many years, and gamers have gotten used to how he sounds as the character. So much so that when a certain animated movie came out and cast Chris Pratt in the role, many weren’t amused. However, as noted by both Martinet and Nintendo, he’s not leaving the company, nor is he retiring from voice acting. Instead, he will be the newly created role of “Mario Ambassador.” A title that still has some things to be explained.

The potential has been on the minds of Marvel fans ever since the release of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, which featured Rocket’s origin story and saw the rag-tag team race against time to save his life after Rocket is nearly killed by Adam Warlock.

Charles Martinet, the original voice actor of Mario, is retiring after 27 years and and will now serve as a «Mario Ambassador», Nintendo has confirmed.

In February 2022 Uncharted director Ruben Fleischer announced that not only is he working on a Jak & Daxter and he had such a time working with Tom Holland that he was hoping to get him to voice a character in the film.

Charles Martinet is stepping back as the voice of Mario in Nintendo games.

When Nintendo first dropped the trailer for Super Mario Bros. Wonder a number of sharp-eared fans noticed something a little different about the game – it sounded like someone else was voicing the game. But that must have been a mistake! Charles Martinet has reliably provided the voice for Mario (and Luigi, Wario, Waluigi, and others) for years! Sure, Chris Pratt lent his pipes to the new movie, but Nintendo wouldn’t replace Charles in the actual games, right?

Martinet is «stepping back» from voicing Mario and transitioning into a new role.

Charles Martinet, the voice actor who has portrayed Mario since 1991, is stepping down, Nintendo announced Monday morning. Besides voicing the world’s most famous plumber, the 67-year-old Martinet also portrayed Luigi, Wario, Waluigi and the baby versions of these characters in more than one hundred titles across the Mario video game franchise.

Charles Martinet, the exuberant voice of Mario, will no longer be the English voice actor behind Nintendo's most recognisable mascot, after almost 30 years in the job.

Charles Martinet will no longer be voicing Mario, Nintendo has announced.

Nintendo of America has revealed that Charles Martinet, the longtime voice of Mario in the company’s various Mario games, is stepping back from the role and will no longer record lines for the character. 

Nintendo has announced that the longtime voice actor of many iconic Mario characters is stepping back from the role. In a Tweet today, they made the announcement that Charles Martinet is instead moving into the role of “Mario Ambassador.”

Actor Charles Martinet, known as the voice of Mario, Luigi, and Wario in Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. games for three decades, will no longer voice those characters, Nintendo announced Monday. Martinet will segue into the role of “Mario Ambassador,” in which he will continue to “travel the world sharing the joy of Mario,” the company said in a statement posted on Twitter.

In February 2022 Uncharted director Ruben Fleischer announced that not only is he working on a Jak & Daxter and he had such a time working with Tom Holland that he was hoping to get him to voice a character in the film.

Tom Holland and Chris Pratt are reportedly pegged to star in the Jak and Daxter movie adaptation.

No, that’s not an Onion headline! The word doing the rounds on social media is that Hollywood superstars Tom Holland and Chris Pratt have been targeted to star in a Jak & Daxter movie. According to a renowned Marvel tipster, Holland will play Jak and Pratt will play his boisterous weasel-like side-kick Daxter – although it feels like it should be the other way around to us!

There’s no shortage of rumors and speculation when it comes to the video game industry. You’ll find something popping up regularly. However, because there’s been quite a bit of success lately when it comes to adapting video games into films or television series, we’re starting to see more rumors surface online as to what’s next. Thanks to a report from Insider Gaming, we have a new rumor that is suggesting Naughty Dog’s next IP being adapted has leads. If you’re unaware, the new video game franchise to potentially get a cinematic experience next will be Jak and Daxter.

According to a reliable movie insider, a live-action Jak and Daxter movie is reportedly in the works at Sony with Tom Holland set to star as Jak and Chris Pratt seemingly voicing Daxter.

The Super Mario Bros. movie is getting a 4K theatrical re-release later in Japan this year.

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Adam Brody has revealed that he auditioned to play Peter Quill, AKA Star-Lord, in the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie – a role that ultimately went to Chris Pratt.

The is topped by Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures.

Actress Zoe Saldaña has shared her thoughts on Gamora’s ending in.