A new company called ‘Nintendo Studios’ has been discovered in the copyright listing for the upcoming Super Mario animated movie.
While the listings appear to have been around on the US Copyright Office’s website for a while, they were only recently discovered by Twitter user MichaelO2k. The listing shows copyright records for the upcoming Mario movie and indicates that the film’s copyright has been registered to Nintendo of America, Nintendo Co Ltd, Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures. However, it also lists two other companies as Nintendo Studios LLC and M Brothers Productions LLC.
While the listing doesn’t provide any further information about these companies, it looks like Nintendo Studios could be a new subsidiary created by Nintendo to handle the future of movie entertainment. like movies or TV shows. Similar subsidiaries include Marvel Studios LLC and PlayStation Studios LLC, which are subsidiaries of Walt Disney Studios and Sony Interactive Entertainment, respectively.
Meanwhile, M Brothers Productions is likely a term company founded purely for the purpose of making Super Mario movies, a common method in filmmaking. For example, the first Marvel Studios films also had single film companies established: Iron Works Productions LLC for Iron Man and Incredible Productions LLC for The Incredible Hulk. However, the existence of a company called Nintendo Studios adds weight to Nintendo’s claim that it plans to produce more movies or TV shows starring the characters present in the future. future.
Speaking at an investor Q&A meeting in November 2021, Shigeru Miyamoto said that Nintendo intends to make more movies based on its existing IPs. Miyamoto confirmed that Nintendo wants to make movies based on the series other than Super Mario, because he says people should experience the company’s brands in more ways than just focusing on video games like before. this. That means in the future we will have the opportunity to see the movies Zelda, Fire Emblem, Metroid Prime and that is really good news for fans to look forward to.
