Donkey Kong: The Movie

Donkey Kong: The Movie is a 2025 American animated comedy surreal drama action film based on Donkey Kong's video game franchise owned by Nintendo. The film was produced by Illumination Entertainment, Universal Pictures, Nintendo and newly made animation company Banana-Studios!, co-owners of the Donkey Kong movie franchise. The film will be a sequel/spin-off to 2023's The Super Mario Bros. Movie and will follow the events of Donkey Kong, Cranky Kong, Diddy Kong and all of their other friends as they traverse through familiar Donkey Kong locations such as The Kong Jungle, The Great Ring of Kong where Donkey Kong gets to fight an old adversary once more, going to the Super Sweet Candy Jungle {new location} where Donkey Kong meets up with Candy Kong, to share what they've lost years ago and Donkey Kong even mentions a "small Italian plumber with stupid red and blue overalls!". The film's release date is currently unknown at the moment but speculation will kinda confirm that Donkey Kong: The Movie will be released in December of 2024 at an undisclosed date. The film stars Seth Rogen, Fred Armisen, Eric Bauza, Tara Strong, Soupy Sales {archival voice lines only}, Sterling Jarvis, Chris Sutherland, Kahoru Sasajima, Charlie Day {cameo voice only}, Chris Pratt {Cameo/archival voice only}, Millie Bobby Brown, Jack Black {Cameo voice only + secret Bowser credit scene}, Sydney Trent, Chris Olsen and Benedict Campbell. The film is going to be directed by Seth Rogen, a screenplay written by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, soundtrack by Brian Tyler and Koji Kondo, pre-production by Seth Rogen, post-production by Shigeru Miyamoto, and casting by Emma Tammi.

During an announcement made at Nintendo Live! 2024, Emma Tammi, Shigeru Miayamoto and Seth Rogen all came on stage to present the very first teaser trailer for their newest upcoming film: Donkey Kong: The Movie, with fans at the events cheering, clapping and sharing their honest opinions throughout the entire thing, one fan even said that the animation in the film was breath-taking and that they'll deferentially see the movie when the release date is announced. Because of the Teaser's successful debut and on YouTube, Seth Rogen and the entire cast of the film decided to host a full 24 hour Donkey Kong Movie countdown stream, still currently going on with only 696 days left until the production of the movie finished. On December 16th, 2023, the film premiered at AMC Theaters in Plainville,CT with positive-mixed reviews during it's first opening weekend screening before the movie offically premiered in Theaters all across the US on December 22nd, 2023. On October 4th, 2024, a sequel was announced and was planned to release in Late April of 2025. The sequel was officially released to Movie Theaters worldwide on April 29th, 2025 {US and Asia], June 17th, 2025 {Japan and most of the Midwest}, October 4th, 2025 {All of the Southwest and half of the midwest], October 10th, 2025 {Russia, Ukraine, Israeli and China}, and December 28th, 2025 {Worldwide}.

Film Description:
"It's currently the year 1981 and the inhabitant of the Donkey Kong Jungle is thriving as usual but when a big bad named King.K Rool tries to salvage the Jungle's resources for himself and attempts to create his new super weapon, it's up to Donkey Kong, Diddy Komg, Candy Kong and all of their other Donkey Kong buddies to stop this wild beast, bring peace to their jungle and