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Who are the Italian-American plumber brothers who star in a 2023 animated film based on a popular video game franchise?

Mario and Luigi are the main characters of Nintendo’s Mario video game series, which debuted in 1981 with Donkey Kong. They are also the protagonists of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, a 2023 computer-animated film produced by Illumination, Universal Pictures, and Nintendo._x000D_ released in the US on Apr. 5, 2023, and is scheduled for Japan on Apr. 28. _x000D_took $377m (£304m) worldwide. US cinemas recorded $204.6m in box office sales. This means the Mario movie has broken the record for opening weekends for both video game adaptations (beating Warcraft’s $210m) and animated films (beating Frozen 2’s $358m). It also makes it the second biggest three-day US animated opening (behind Finding Dory)._x000D__x000D_a sequel featuring a cracking Yoshi-Egg.