Nintendo Hints At Continuing Partnership With Illumination - Starts New Production Company

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Shigeru Miyamoto, Illumination hint at a continued movie partnership

What are you two cooking up?

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Shigeru Miyamoto: There's nothing I can really comment on at the moment. But we started with the fact that we have a shared vision of creation, so I think there'll be opportunities in the future.

Chris Meladandri: We are so focused right now on this movie, all the way up to Wednesday, and how the audience engages with the film. Nintendo and Illumination have had a really rewarding collaboration. Mr. Miyamoto and his colleagues have invited me to join the board of directors of Nintendo, and we're working together into the future with me in that capacity. But it's hard for us to talk about anything else at this time.

 

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Nintendo officially confirms that they will produce more films under the Nintendo Pictures label after Mario

Nobody doubts the success of the Super Mario movie, so it is not surprising that Nintendo is thinking of more projects of the style. This has been confirmed in question and answer session of its latest financial results, published yesterday. In this session, Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa...

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Nobody doubts the success of the Super Mario movie, so it is not surprising that Nintendo is thinking of more projects of the style. This has been confirmed inquestion and answer session of its latest financial results, published yesterday.

In this session, Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa has assured shareholders that they will continue to produce movies with their IPs. For this, he affirms that they will use his recently created division Nintendo Pictures.