User blog comment:763492/My concern about Sony Picture's future animated Mario movie/@comment-24495139-20150925044421

Just for reference, Sony Pictures, Playstation and Sony Music are all fairly autonomous from each other. This is like working to get Microsoft Office on Android being at ends with Window Phone. What one division does has little bearing for the other divisions. Nintendo won't go third party by working with Sony Pictures, just like they haven't gone third party because they are working with Universal. The reason they would go with Sony Pictures is that Sony Pictures is one of the better animated movie makers, but they lack a consistent brand to go off for these projects. Disney and Pixar rather make their own stuff or reboots stuff from the Disney vault. Illumination has Minions. Dreamworks is subpar. Sony is one of only realistic choices for a Mario movie to be a global success.

Secondly, this originated from a leak from emails in Sony's database. However, these emails only proposed the idea with Nintendo and as far as we can tell, haver never gotten further than a discussion with Nintendo representatives. While Nintendo wants to enter the movie market with their IPs, there is nothing confirmed, like than Zelda series on netflix rumor.

And thirdly, never use wikipedia as a source. if you check the source Wikipedia uses, you notice that it is a Buzzfeed article that has been updated to say that there is no confirmed deal. Even the language used in the email doesn't suggest an actual deal but that they achieved some level of talks.