New Super Mario movie in development with studio behind Minions

From Nintendo president Tatumi Kimishima's corporate management policy briefing today (PDF):

We have starteddevelopment of an animated movie featuring "SuperMario" with Illumination, the movie studio thatbrought films such as "Despicable Me" and"Minions." For this project Mr. Chris Meledandri,Founder and CEO of Illumination and ShigeruMiyamoto, Representative Director, Fellow ofNintendo will co-producing the film. The film will beco-financed by Universal Pictures and Nintendo,and distributed theatrically worldwide by UniversalPictures.

Further announcements on details such as releasedates will be made at a later date. We look forwardto providing further information about the releasetiming for this movie that we hope everyone willenjoy.

As a part of our effort to expand Nintendo IP beyondvideo games, we look forward to bringing smiles topeople around the world through this movie.

Let's hope it fares better than last time.

(via Rolling Stone)