All of this is true. It is the possibility that has me hesitant. Everyone seems to be calling it a billion dollar film but it could easily drop the ball in the next 2 weeks. So I'll just sit back and wait and see.
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The Mario movie set to cruise past a billion at the box office and become the bigget video game movie by a huge margin
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Bragr
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John Wick 3 was a big success and grossed a little over 300 million. John Wick 4 is gonna top that and likely land at around 350 million. There has never been any talk of John Wick getting close to a billion.
Grossing a billion is extreme. Very few movies get close to that.
The Mario Movie went past Johh Wick 4's total box office numbers in 5 days. Compared to other movies with openings like that, crossing a billion shouldn't be an issue. The Mario Movie is gonna earn more than all the John Wick movies combined.
Which means they should've had Keanu voice Mario.
AJUMP23
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Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
Interestingly, all the movies require the franchise to be old enough for nostalgia driven parents to take their kids to. The cycle of violence then continues generation after generation in the same manner as the Hatfields and Mccoys.
Azelover
Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was.
I agree.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
Zelda should be Live Action starring Tom Holland as the titular character.
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Jinzo Prime
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Sony/Disney won't ever let him go. But that certainly would be a billion-making movie.
Burning Blade
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Woosh
poodaddy
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MaestroMike
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Loved it !! The perfect video game film adaptation 
I’ll definitely be seeing it again. Super action packed and had everything I could ever want in a Mario movie 
I’ll definitely be seeing it again. Super action packed and had everything I could ever want in a Mario movie
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eddie4
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I'd love to see a Metroid movie, done right of course.
Dirk Benedict
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Gonna watch this with 2 friends and my Momma. I am paying everyone's way. Gladly. Can't wait to just have some fun!
BlackTron
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It's been a long time since I went to the theater and I saw both. John Wick with one adult, and Mario with 2 adults and 2 kids, and we moved down in the row so this giant party with like 8 kids could all fit in the same row together. So my experience is pretty consistent with these numbers.
Mario just has such a wider reach than an adult-only action movie. I sat next to a tiny 3-4 year old dressed as Rosalina. Nintendo may as well be the new fucking Disney. When kids are indoctrinated it's printing money.
Side note, my 10yo niece kinda freaked out at Peach's final ace up her sleeve, it's her favorite game ability because it's similar to a certain popular Disney princess. For me that was a real high note, where it succeeded as a game crossover movie (by invoking the experience of the game) and struck a chord with her exactly because it set out to do that. Successful game adaptation.
Azurro
Banned
Well, Mario has never had much of a story, it's always characters that are cute, happy and funny. Even the ghost characters are cute, it kinda makes sense the movie would be the same, no?
Scotty W
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Y’all should microdose some magic mushrooms to make this one extra special.
Gamerfan81
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It's now at 420.8 million. 19 million more and it becomes the highest grossing video game movie of all time overtaking Warcraft. Probably by this time tomorrow it holds that record. All indications are that the movie will hit $1 billion soon. Only 51 movies in the history of cinema has hit that milestone.
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt6718170/
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt6718170/
Jinzo Prime
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Batiman
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Probably for the better. It feels like a plot I could make up in 5 min in my head. Add in all the cool video game references and some popular voice actors and boom. Success.
Makes me wonder why it took them so long to make a big budget movie. I thought it was fun. No way was it bad, also not great.
Also they did a good job transitioning these voiceless characters into real characters without it feeling jarring at all. Especially with all the Pratt voice hate and other concerns before the release. Was really natural in the end and probably what they deserve the most praise for.
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Marvel14
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ChorizoPicozo
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41% drop.
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i'm glad i am not Nintendo-indoctrinated.
but that song is stuck in my head.
,,,,i'm glad i am not Nintendo-indoctrinated.
but that song is stuck in my head.
Synless
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Now, I’m willing to be wrong here but a 41% is not bad compared to the average movie for a second weekend… in fact I believe I read its a lower drop than average By about 20%.41% drop.
i'm glad i am not Nintendo-indoctrinated.
but that song is stuck in my head.
ChorizoPicozo
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yep, they are usually between 57-67%.
Sidney Prescott
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Was a fun movie, definitely a cool experience seeing it at the cinema. A lot of excited/happy people, especially kids. It's just easy for everybody to enjoy, of all ages. The visuals were amazing.
touchfuzzy
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You say this like it's obvious but it took Hollywood how many dozens of years and dozens of different adaptations to finally figure this out...?
NecrosaroIII
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It's shocking to me they didn't make a tie in game
AJUMP23
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Movie games suck. Nintendo knows this.
E-Cat
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I wonder what cut Illumination are getting?
Unknown Soldier
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I would like them to use some of these profits to create the Nintendo Cinematic Universe. First off I would like a Donkey Kong movie and bring Seth Rogen back to voice DK. I heard some people think a Zelda movie would be cool. Others would like a Luigi's Mansion movie. I admit that I wonder what a Metroid movie would be like, especially Metroid itself is inspired by Alien so it would be a movie inspired by a video game inspired by a movie! There are a lot of possibilities now that Nintendo has tasted that box office money printer success!
I think Nintendo should stay conservative with the Switch 2's specs. The appeal of Switch has always been the ability to grab it off the dock and play it as a portable. Excessive spec inflation that compromises it's ability to be a portable would be against the hybrid console concept that made Switch so successful.
AJUMP23
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Probably production cost plus revenue sharing.
Billbofet
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Took my son to this tonight. He's 8 and most of the easter eggs were likely over his head, but he really enjoyed it.
I also enjoyed it quite a bit, but I wish there were more references and nods to the greatest Mario game of all time, Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES)!!!
Fingers crossed on seeing a Zelda movie - fully aware of how difficult it would be to pull off right! Or Metroid as a total pipedream.
I also enjoyed it quite a bit, but I wish there were more references and nods to the greatest Mario game of all time, Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES)!!!
Fingers crossed on seeing a Zelda movie - fully aware of how difficult it would be to pull off right! Or Metroid as a total pipedream.
Ah, they prob made less than 50m on it. Out of the 700m, the theaters take a 55-60% cut, subtract the marketing budget (125m ish), than illumination and Universal cut. The only buck they are really making is on the rise of Switch and Mario sales.
Switch's Mario video games have made them around 10b.
El Pistolero
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With this and TLOU TV show having made waves, I expect Hollywood to get into videogames adaptations full mode, especially that the superheroes craze is slowly getting to an end.
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Marvel14
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What are you two smoking ?
It's the first time I see someone say "i hope Nintendo's hardware isn't too powerful so I can carry it." We know they will likely err on side of a current gen mid low capability mobile chipset. I just hope this success gives them the profit boost to absorb the cost of a midrange or even highmid mobile SoC with DLSS2.0. Portability should be completely unaffected, though battery life may be a bit worse.
And on that profit:
Assume.movie cost $150m to make and market,. that theatres take 50% of the revenue and Nintendo takes half of the subsequent profits.
$700m becomes $350m and leaves $200m total profit.
That's $100m already on 2 weeks and rising probably to $200m (hasn't released in Japan yet). They could put $75m aside for the next film and still have a bulging wallet. They would have to sell 1.7 mn copies of a game at £60 in two weeks to get the same revenue never mind profit. More profit will come from streaming, merchandising(games included) and tie ins.
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I'm sure the profit can come to something bigger, mostly from the rise of brand awareness and more people wanting to play Mario. What the actual movie will give Nintendo in terms of profits is not that substantial for them, but maybe we'll see differently in their financial results.
Dr.Morris79
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A billion you say? Shit, how will they cope?
I guess they really need old Gary Bowsers money after all.
I guess they really need old Gary Bowsers money after all.
Bragr
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It just had the 7th-best second weekend of all time. This was the weekend of the 14th to the 16th. Pretty wild stuff.
The highest-grossing second-weekend movies ever in the United States:
The highest-grossing second-weekend movies ever in the United States:
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens, $149.2 million
- Avengers: Endgame, $147.4 million
- Avengers: Infinity War, $114.8 million
- Black Panther, $111.7 million
- Jurassic World, $106.6 million
- The Avengers, $103.1 million
- The Super Mario Bros. Movie, $92.5 million
- 2017’s Beauty and the Beast, $90.4 million
- Top Gun Maverick, $90 million
- Frozen II, $85.9 million
Bragr
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"This comes courtesy of MST Financial senior analyst David Gibson, who estimates that the movie will make $1.2 billion total at the box office, followed by an additional $2.3 billion from its digital release. Altogether, that’s $3.5 billion (about £2.8 billion).
Obviously, all that money won’t go to Nintendo – Illumination and Universal will be taking a cut – but Gibson tells Axios that Nintendo will come out of the venture with around $1.1 billion (about £886 million)."
Super Mario movie could make Nintendo $1,100,000,000 as it breaks records
Even on its second week, the Super Mario movie isn’t slowing down and is predicted to make up to $3.5 billion once it releases digitally.
metro.co.uk