Mario Day 2024: all the announcements

Today is March 10th, aka. Mario Day. To celebrate, Nintendo uploaded a short video with several announcements related to the Mario series. New animated movie, release dates for Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, new Nintendo Switch Online releases… that’s quite a lot of announcements was able to pack in such a short video!

Here’s the Mario Day 2024 video with all the announcements:

First up: a second animated movie featuring the world’s most well-known plumber is currently in the works. It will be released on April 3rd, 2026 in the US and many other countries, and with additional countries/regions getting the movie later that month. That’s the case of Japan, where the movie will launch on April 24th.

Just like the first one, this second Mario movie is being co-produced by Nintendo and Illumination. Unfortunately, little to no details were shared (not even a poster!), though we do know some of the people and companies involved:

• Producers: Chris Meledandri (Founder and CEO of Illumination) and Shigeru Miyamoto (Representative Director, Fellow of Nintendo)
• Director: Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic (same as the Super Mario Bros. Movie)
• Scenario: Matthew Fogel (same as the Super Mario Bros. Movie)
• Financed by: Nintendo and Universal Pictures
• Distribution: Universal Pictures

Next: Nintendo announced that the Nintendo Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door will launch on May 23rd worldwide. No new details were shared, but here’s a short video with some footage:

As for Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD, it will launch roughly a month later, on June 27th. Unfortunately, no new footage for that game was shared.

Finally, three 3 more Mario games are coming to Game Boy – Nintendo Switch Online on March 12th:

• Dr. Mario
• Mario Golf (Game Boy Color)
• Mario Tennis (Game Boy Color)

Source: Nintendo / Nintendo PR (18/06/2024)