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'Super Mario Bros. Movie' composer levels up: 'I want this score to be my 'E.T.''

LOS ANGELES — One hundred and thirty. That's the minimum number of references to the various "Mario"-branded video games that "Super Mario Bros. Movie" composer Brian Tyler estimates he included in his score for the film.

Los Angeles Times

‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Is a Box Office Smash

Audiences said let’s go to the movie theater for “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” this weekend. The animated offering from Universal and Illumination powered up with $204.6 million in its first five days in 4,343 North American theaters, including $146.4 million over the weekend, according to studio estimates on Sunday.…

Asharq Al-Awsat

The Super Mario Bros. Movie Is 2023's Latest Record-Breaker As The Video Game Blockbuster Crushes At The Weekend Box Office

Launching in theaters this past Wednesday, The Super Mario Bros. Movie had one of the all-time biggest debuts for an animated film at the box office.

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Fans Have Complained About Chris Pratt's Mario Voice. He Admits At One Point He Could Have Sounded Like Tony Soprano

Chris Pratt reveals how his “Mario voice” started very Tony Soprano-like before producers stepped in.

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Vahe Gregorian: ‘It’s not just a video game’: Negro Leagues baseball comes alive in ‘MLB The Show 23’

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The last home video game Bob Kendrick played with any regularity was via Atari, circa the Jurassic Era of the genre in the late 1970s/early ‘80s.

Tribune News Service

Truth or Fake 2023: image verification in the age of AI and video games

For France's Press and Media in Schools Week 2023, France 24’s Observers team, specialised in debunking misinformation, has produced a new annual edition of "Truth or Fake", a short programme giving tips on how to disentangle fact from fiction.

France 24

‘The right to miss’: How Dr. J changed video-game history and paved the way for Madden

One in a series of stories remembering the 1982-83 76ers, one of the NBA’s best teams ever.

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Jack Black wants a Red Dead Redemption movie or TV series next

Mario movie star Jack Black hoped someone makes a Red Dead Redemption movie, as video game adaptations prove more popular than ever

USA Today Sports Media Group

Commentary: Princess Peach started out as a boring damsel in distress. Times have changed

In my earliest memories of Princess Peach, she is less a video game character than an elusive goal.

Los Angeles Times

'Street Fighter' Movie Reboot Continues Hollywood's Most Exciting New Trend

Video game movies are all the rage, and now a classic brawler is getting a second chance.

Inverse

UK’s first gaming suite in London Leicester Square will make you feel like video game royalty

I spent a night at W London’s specialised Gaming Suite — this is what it was like

Evening Standard

Seth Rogen Recalls Watching The ‘90s Super Mario Movie: ‘One Of The Worst Films Ever Made’

The Superbad star explains his own personal disappointment around the original Super Mario Bros. Adaptation.

Cinemablend

Can you make an AI understand love? The experimental games festival about relationships

Laze in front of a digital fire reading poetry, play games about dating or find out how gaming links families at Now Play This in London, designed to make us look at video games differently

The Guardian - UK

Jack Black wants a Red Dead Redemption movie because it has an "even better story than The Last of Us"

The actor is a fan of video game adaptations "when done right"

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30 years after first 'Super Mario' movie, video game content levels up

Video game content is coming of age.

Liverpool Echo

Liverpool FC fan makes £50k a year by playing FIFA for 8 hours a day in his bedroom

Alex Shaw plays video games for up to eight hours a day

Evening Standard

The best video game film adaptations: staff picks

Get in the mood for Mario with our selection of the best shows and movies based on video games

The Guardian - UK

Pushing Buttons: Yes, E3 was a hot mess, but it had a magic you can never replicate on a live stream

In this week’s newsletter: Gaming’s biggest expo might be finished forever – and I know I’ll miss the buzzy, tactile, interactive hype-fest it used to be

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How 'Hogwarts Legacy' video game reinforces antisemitic scapegoating with goblins

In its first two weeks after being released, the video game Hogwarts Legacy, described by the developer as “set in the world of the Harry Potter books,” sold 12 million copies and made about US$850 million in revenue.

Cinemablend

The Super Mario Bros. Movie Reviews Are Here, And The Critics Are Split Over The Video Game Adaptation

Reviews are in for The Super Mario Bros. Movie starring Chris Pratt. What do the critics have to say about the video game adaptation?

Cinemablend

The Super Mario Bros. Movie Review: Not So Much A Film As It Is A Checklist Of Video Game References

[I]t functions more like a checklist of nods to the games than a narrative feature.

The Guardian - UK

The Super Mario Bros Movie review – wackily eccentric gamer guys fall flat on screen

The second film adaptation of the phenomenally successful video game is a disappointment to rival the first

Tribune News Service

Movie review: Nintendo's favorite plumbers return in frenetic 'The Super Mario Bros. Movie'

Thirty years ago, the very first cinematic adaptation of a video game hit theaters. “Super Mario Bros.” based on the 1985 Nintendo game created by Shigeru Miyamoto didn’t exactly bring the game to life as much as it extrapolated a nightmarish cyberpunk world from its characters. “Max Headroom” directors Rocky…

TechRadar

The Super Mario Bros. Movie is a dazzling Super Star of a video game movie

The Super Mario Bros. Movie arrives in theaters on April 5 – here's our spoiler-free review.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Saudi Arabia Achieves Record Growth in Promising Sectors

Saudi Arabia has achieved record growth in indicators of economic activities in promising sectors during the first quarter of this year, one of the opportunities launched by Vision 2030 for the local and foreign business sectors. According to a recent report by the Ministry of Commerce, a copy of which…

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