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The Super Mario Bros. Movie is a 2023 computer-animated film based on Nintendo's Mario video game franchise, produced by Illumination in association with Nintendo and distributed by Universal Pictures. It is the third feature film adaptation of the Mario franchise, following the anime film Super Mario Bros.: The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach! (1986) and the Hollywood live-action film Super Mario Bros. (1993). The film is directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic from a screenplay by Matthew Fogel and stars Chris Pratt as the voice of Mario alongside the ensemble voice cast including Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key, Seth Rogen, Fred Armisen, Sebastian Maniscalco, Charles Martinet, and Kevin Michael Richardson.

After the critical and commercial failure of the 1993 film, Nintendo was reluctant to license its intellectual properties for film adaptations. Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto became interested in developing another film when Nintendo was bringing its older games to the Virtual Console service, and through Nintendo's work with Universal Parks & Resorts to create Super Nintendo World, he met Illumination founder Chris Meledandri. By 2016, the two were discussing a Mario film and in January 2018, Nintendo announced that it would collaborate with Illumination and Universal to produce it. Production was underway by 2020. On October 6, 2022, a teaser trailer for the film was shown via a Nintendo Direct presentation.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie is scheduled to be released in the United States on April 7, 2023 by Universal Pictures.