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North East creative agency Blue Kangaroo opens Bristol office, creating new jobs

Blue Kangaroo Design, which has its headquarters in Newcastle, has ambitious growth plans for the next three years

Birmingham Post

Universal Studios shares sneak peek at brand new Minions themed land opening this year

Universal Orlando Resort in Florida is poised to open Minions Land this summer, building on the Despicable Me Minion Mayhem attraction and bringing Gru, Margo, Edith and Agnes to the park

Daily Mirror

Universal Studios Hollywood May Finally Be Getting Something It Desperately Needs

Universal Studios Hollywood appears to be planning for some significant expansion.

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American Pie branded 'deeply problematic' as teens watch films for first time

Gen-Z teens have slammed the American Pie films for being "deeply problematic" and call out the "incel attitudes" from the movie after watching it for the first time

Daily Mirror

‘Mario’ Tops Charts Again; ‘Beau Is Afraid’ Wins in Limited

“The Super Mario Bros. Movie" scored the best second weekend ever for an animated movie in North American theaters with $87 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. The family-friendly Universal release dropped a slim 41% from its record-making opening weekend. With $94 million from international showings, “Mario's”…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Healing starts in the lobby at this hospital, where volunteer musicians play their passion

If you happen to walk through the front doors of Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington, near Chicago, and think you hear the Windows startup music, or the themes for Universal Studios or Warner Bros. being played on the piano, don’t second guess it. Odds are it is Guido Calcagno,…

Chicago Tribune

The first Asian screenwriter in Hollywood's 1920s ‘dream factory,’ Winnifred Eaton, challenged its racism

A century before Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress, the daughter of a Chinese mother and a white English father, Winnifred Eaton, was working behind the scenes in Hollywood.

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The Super Mario Bros Movie smashes box office records despite poor reviews

Film had the best opening weekend for an animated film of all time

The Independent UK

Ant and Dec say 'we've been stitched up' as they hit Universal ahead of special ITV Saturday Night Takeaway episode

The presenting pair have jetted to Orlando, Florida with a bunch of lucky viewers for a week-long stay at Universal

Manchester Evening News

Review: ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Is Okey-dokey

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. But it is also, if I check the clock, Mario Time. “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” with its vistas of primary colors, is here to brighten our dreary…

Asharq Al-Awsat

The film fraudster who "infiltrated" Newry woman's life

"Nothing happened to me physically, but mentally and emotionally, it has absolutely wrecked me."

Belfast Live

Thousands of Papua New Guineans caught up in Golden Sun movie review 'pyramid scheme'

Thousands of Papua New Guineans fall victim to a scheme that promises money in return for reviews of 15-second blockbuster movie clips.

ABC News

I’m a Universal Studios Hollywood regular, and Bowser’s Challenge is its best ride yet

Universal Studios Hollywood's knocked it out of the park with Super Nintendo World and its latest ride: Bowser’s Challenge.

TechRadar

The happiest place on earth: hitting the heights in Orlando

The Floridian city does thrills and theme parks like nowhere else — and Lucy Tobin and family find plenty to enjoy in its foodie neighbourhoods and quieter attractions too

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Orlando Sentinel

Universal Hollywood Super Nintendo World is a hit, a good sign for Epic Universe

From the moment she walked through the green warp pipe into Universal Studios Hollywood’s Super Nintendo World, Ashlei Hartford felt transported back to her childhood video games.

Los Angeles Times

How one studio is reverse engineering a video game using TikTok

Whether it's a hit TV show like HBO's "The Last of Us" or an interactive theme park land like Universal Studios' Super Nintendo World, video games are ripe for adaptation and reinterpretation.

Los Angeles Times

Universal's Super Nintendo World is the play-focused theme park land for our times

LOS ANGELES — A credit list into the hundreds — likely thousands — helped bring Universal Studios' Super Nintendo World to life. And the details show it.

The Orange County Register

Are you too fat for Universal’s new Mario Kart ride? The average American guy is

SANTA ANA, Calif. — Critics are blasting the new Super Nintendo attraction at Universal Studios Hollywood as “blatantly fatphobic” because the augmented reality dark ride has a size restriction that will leave many Americans with larger waistlines on the sidelines.

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The Orange County Register

Universal Studios expanding regional theme park concepts in US and worldwide

Universal Studios has big plans to take on regional amusement park chains in the United States and around the globe with a pair of smaller scale and lower cost theme park concepts aimed at families with young kids and horror movie fans.

The Independent UK

Super Nintendo World’s new Mario Kart ride accused of excluding plus size visitors

Ride has a waist circumference limit of 40 inches

The Guardian - UK

‘Like eating one of Mario’s magic mushrooms’: inside California’s new Super Nintendo World

Bringing the iconic video games into reality, Super Nintendo World is a spectacular feat of design that will overload your senses faster than it empties your wallet

Tribune News Service

5 things to know about Universal Studios as park makes Texas debut

Universal Studios is bringing its next theme park to Frisco, Texas, its third location in the U.S. as the chain continues to expand worldwide.

The Independent UK

Amusement park lovers react as Universal Studios announces new theme park in Texas

‘As a resident of North Texas, I’m excited about this!’

Orlando Sentinel

Theme parks 2023: Fresh rides coming, but it’s end of the track for a few

ORLANDO, Fla. — We have the makings of a busy theme park calendar in 2023, with long-awaited projects (hopefully) reaching completion, new events debuting and a few favorites bowing out.

Los Angeles Times

Universal Studios sets February opening date for Super Nintendo World

LOS ANGELES — The transformation of the American theme park as a palace for thrills and passive rides to locations centered around active play will continue on Feb. 17 when Universal Studios Hollywood opens its Super Nintendo World.

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