The Mario Movie Might Be Appearing On Streaming Services Very Soon

Please be real! I will get it day one if so!

Waiting very anxiously to buy it on itunes or amazon the minute it becomes available

I prefer getting DVD or Blu Ray disc version after watching from cinema for 4 times.

Never even heard of these...meh, whatever, I'll just wait to get it on disc.

Hey Liam Optimum isn't a streaming service it's the 4th largest cable tv brand in the US owned by French company Altice. They do have "on demand" for a fee but I've never heard anyone refer to old school "on demand" as streaming before.

Oh and "revealing" l, 1st sentence 2nd paragraph, should probably be "revealed". Or maybe not, it's past my bedtime.

All the rest of those probably count as streaming, seems legit.

Somehow my international history teacher managed to play the movie digitally a few days back. It lagged a bunch, so they switched to something else, but they played the first few minutes. I think it was on a website called Plex. Can someone confirm/deny this?

@Kirbyo Plex is a service where you provide your own server and movie files, then Plex makes it so you can stream it to almost any device you own. Your teacher still had to source the video file, probably from the dark parts of the internet.

On-Demand is still a thing? Wow, brings back memories

Sweet. I'll be watching a seventh time and more once it releases on digital.

@Snatcher I will also get it day one when I can buy it, but that isn't what this is. This is when they let you pay to digitally rent the movie, but won't let you actually buy it yet, even digitally. The actual home release date will probably be later.

@Ooyah I think Universal/Illumination has done the same with their last few movies and it's been fine. The movie isn't going to generate more than 100-200 million extra [give or take] in the rest of its time at the box office either way, if you follow the graphs, so it's probably a smart move on their part to get some extra cash from home rentals while it's still hot at the box office and before they finally release the physical versions and then put it on streaming services eventually. And it's possible the extra exposure in the home might even give it a final last boost in the cinema if the people watching it at home for the first time really love it and decide maybe it's worth going to the big screen to experience it in all its glory before they no longer have that option. I guess we'll see. Regardless, it looks like the movie is gonna land somewhere around the 1.2-1.3 billion mark at the box office, which is just amazing. Major kudos to both Nintendo and Illumination for creating such a brilliant and successful Mario movie that's truly an absolute love letter to all the fans.

potheads gonna have a field day watching this one at home

Sky have already got this in a "coming to sky store in May" TV ad

Will probably rent/buy it on Google Play Movies by the time it comes out on it.

I am thinking this is just rental. Why would they let you buy digital 6 months before the supposed blu ray release.

I don't mind paying for things, but I'm not about to spend what will likely be full price to only ever watch it once. No thanks. Even if I inevitably stream a digital version, I'd much rather have it on an account as a paid for product that I keep until the merchant inevitably dies, than only ever get to watch it once.

@nomither6 we booked the access room in our local Cineworld and took in a pizza when the wife and I went to see it.
In all fairness it wasn't the best 420 movie, a few giggles but it was mostly heavy on the nostalgia.

@nomither6,

There will be some pretty decent quality torrents floating around, that's for sure.

Which streaming service i am curious which one?

I don't know why they'd rush it to streaming when it's making a killing at the box office.

@Chaotic_Neutral you guys should’ve added “mushroom” toppings on the pizza 😂

Last night I was going through Google Play to watch my copy of Mad Max and it was listed to buy for $30. So it's been up for at least 12 hours.

I remember when films didn’t come out on VHS for at least six months, if you were lucky.

I remember the DVD of The Phantom Menace didn’t come out until a year after the film’s release.

My brother and sister haven't seen it yet so we'll probably get together to watch it... which will give me another excuse to see it again, this time without the sniveling kids and overly loud parents chattering with each other.

I will probably buy it on Blu-Ray or wait and watch it on Netflix.

@Joeynator3000 …you’ve never heard of Apple, Amazon or Google?

@Gamergirl94 On Demand, you can get it on Apple or Amazon’s streaming services, but you’d have to pay for them, it’s not actually on the streaming service.

@Quasicat Oh... oh no...

I've been streaming it since cinema release 😏 I did pay to watch it at the cinema but I never see the point in paying to watch something I've already watched. I wouldn't pay for my car again to drive it...

@BabyYoda71 I never heard of Optimum, or Spectrum TV.

If you add it, they will come. As will I! My kids and I are going to enjoying this movie again on our home TV. I will be buying it so we can watch it anytime on VUDU.

@PBandSmelly welcome to back to 2023! 😂
It it was to release that soon, I think we would be seeing some promotional ads.
But hey feel free to prove me wrong!

I mean if it is this week on like apple and stuff then maybe I’ll finally get to see the thing. That would be really nice actually.

@Joeynator3000 Oh that makes more sense

@RetroGames the movie is breaking records because of the name sake not because it is a fabulous movie. In the end most the spin offs will not do anywhere as good and like most movie themes the video game one will be over in a few years.
The movie itself is meh and isn’t even as good as the minions movie and I am an extremely huge Mario fan.
As for coming to streaming it is coming to streaming because almost every movie comes to streaming services 90 days after release at the theaters. Then the physical will be a month or a couple months after that.

@Gamergirl94 @BabyYoda71 it is a universal film which is owned by NBC so it will release on Peacock first and then the other services maybe a month later if not longer. NBC will not at all release it anywhere else and will use it as a pull to get people make accounts on their service.

Highly unlikely to be true. It’s still doing well at the box office so they’d just be cannibalising sales.

@DdG1408 Apply that "because of the Mario name" logic to the Super Mario Bros. movie from the '90s and see how it plays out. . . .

And, honestly, I just can't take anyone serious who genuinely thinks this movie is anything other than great. They're entirely free to do so, of course, but I do not respect their taste on such things or indeed their understanding of what makes a great movie. People don't have to think it's perfect, but anyone dropping below a 7/10 bare minimum just isn't living on the same planet as me.

Thankfully, the vast majority of the audience disagrees with you, and the movie is also blowing the roof off at the box office, so it's all good from where I'm sitting.

When is this going to be available to rent at Blockbuster?

I guess after a cool billion making it easily accessible to pirates doesn't really matter as much. With TOTK leaking early there might be a chance that Nintendo moves more towards movies. Can you imagine any game bringing in a billion???

Lol, so it releases for streaming before it comes to theaters in Poland.

@tseliot we don't need to imagine, because games have generated over a billion in revenue many times.

@Tasuki,

Quality is a little poor though, will be waiting for some official streams.

@spottedleaf me too !!!

@JohnnyMind That's fair enough.

It's a 10/10 for me personally, even though it's obviously not literally perfect, because there's not one thing I have a single issue with and I think it was just a magical and amazing movie experience across the board.

I've never watched any movie more than twice at the cinema previously, and only then because someone else dragged me along for the second viewing, but I've now watched The Super Mario Bros. Movie six times, which I think speaks volumes regarding where I'm at with it.

This is one those movies that I think is greater than the analysis of the various individual parts that make up the whole, which are also all still great in and of themselves imo, and I'm so happy it happened in my lifetime with a Nintendo property.

Bring on the next "NCU" movie!

@tseliot there are dozens of games that bring in revenues higher than a billion.

Mario Kart sales 50,000,000 x50 - 2.5B
GTA V 175M units sold x 30 (I'm being generous here) - 5.25 B (likely much much more)
Fortnite annuals - roughly 5B/year

Movies are piss money.

Boo! Was hoping for a few more weeks in theatres to beat incredibles 2.