Nintendo buys animation studio and renames it Nintendo Pictures

Nintendo completely acquires Dynamo Pictures and changes its name to Nintendo Pictures. The animation studio must then focus on the ‘development of visual content based on Nintendo properties’. Nintendo previously said it wants 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. The company has been independent since 2011. Dynamo Pictures employs 100 people. Company worked on, among other things the Netflix series Ghost in the Shell, NieR Replicant and Death Stranding.

It’s not clear if Nintendo is acquiring the animation studio for help with game development or to make more movies. A Super Mario Bros. movie starring Chris Pratt should be released next year. Shigeru Miyamoto, producer and game director at Nintendo, has according to VGC previously indicated that they want to make more Nintendo films.