source material
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There’s no possibility, however, that the Nintendo source material will leave your mind during 2023’s animated smash “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” or its sequel, “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
That's one of the biggest gaps between source material and film adaptation in the history of the best picture category.
From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026
Tracy said he wanted to respect the source material, but without feeling constricted by it.
From Barron's • Mar. 1, 2026
Fennell is not merely playing fast and loose with her source material, as a skeptic might think; she’s lifting the evocative images of Brontë’s prose and envisioning them as one might when reading the novel.
From Salon • Feb. 14, 2026
This was primary source material, research papers based on direct experimental data, involved theoretical constructions utilizing a complex vocabulary and containing a wealth of original ideas—and he was breaking his head on it.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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