Nintendo buys animation studio and names it Nintendo Pictures

Nintendo completely takes over Dynamo Pictures and changes the name to Nintendo Pictures. The animation studio must then focus on the ‘development of visual content based on Nintendo properties’. Earlier, Nintendo said it wanted to release more films.

Dynamo Pictures will be after the takeover a Nintendo subsidiary. With the acquisition, Nintendo wants to strengthen the ‘planning and production structure of visual content within the Nintendo group’. The acquisition is expected to close on October 3.

The animation studio was founded 30 years ago and has created animations for movies, games, TV series and VR glasses. Since 2011, the company has been independent. 100 people work at Dynamo Pictures. Company worked on, among other things, the Netflix series Ghost in the Shell, NieR Replicant and Death Stranding.

It is not clear whether Nintendo will acquire the animation studio to help with game development or to make more films. A Super Mario Bros. movie is set to be released next year starring Chris Pratt. Shigeru Miyamoto, producer and game director at Nintendo, has according to VGC previously indicated that he wanted to make more Nintendo films.