“Mario” video game fans are in for another treat with “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” the sequel to the first animated blockbuster that grossed more than $1 billion at the box office in 2023. Nearly every scene is jam-packed with Easter eggs and references to past “Mario” games, plus there are a ton of musical nods to games throughout the series.

A year after the film hit theaters, its director, the head of ‘Minecraft’ studio Mojang, a Regal Cinema exec, and a fan talk about the meme.

The 2025 sequel to a 2023 horror film, adapted from the video game franchise of the same name, will soon be available to stream on Peacock. Despite the criticism it garnered, the film went on to become a massive commercial success.

In “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” we meet Yoshi, a cuddly green dinosaur in pink boots who looks like a plastic bath toy and will eat just about anything (he's voiced in a babyish coo by Donald Glover).

It wasn’t too long ago that video game adaptations into film and television shows were real stinkers. For every great film, there were a dozen terrible renditions (though, I will still defend Super Mario Bros. from 1993). These days, however, massive ...