#The Super Mario Bros. Movie

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umbral nova
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Jar, then bird cage, both hilarious… now just don’t hit him (sequel ideas!)

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nimble turret
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He's strong enough to lift the piano and drop it on himself

umbral nova
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tawdry yacht
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Don't have that option

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Oh never mind

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I had to change to original release

tawdry yacht
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Unfortunately it isn't the statistic I wanted for worldwide statistic for each daily earnings.

nimble turret
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Found this very interesting question

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green canopy
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Absolutely

umbral nova
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Not with those Pakkun Flowers I won't

sick pasture
green canopy
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Babygirl

heavy depot
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Wish we got a cliche dream montage of guy dreaming about stuff he would do with dream girl

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But with bowser and peach

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Bowser doing the most horrid stuff while being happy with peach

wintry crag
green canopy
wintry crag
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Omg *

umbral nova
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Wears pointes as fashion statement, girl after my own heart… forget Morales

wintry crag
green canopy
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Lol

stiff wharf
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Take that Frozen

umbral nova
nimble turret
tawdry yacht
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Soon top 100?

next garnet
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Yeah, probably

tawdry yacht
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And how good is it that it reaches the top 100?

green canopy
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Pretty good, I guess

umbral nova
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Well, people are starting to go in for seconds, like we are tomorrow night… the numbers will be climbing

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Top 100 is more or less assured… Frozen II is on 13th, as the highest animated film… the question is if it can beat THAT

green canopy
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Hop it does!

sick pasture
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Better not beat out Shrek Forever After

heavy depot
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I mean, it changes nothing about the quality of that or mario

umbral nova
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That said... Mortal Kombat consistently makes fun adaptations, and Street Fighter, well... Kylie Minogue as Cammy

sick pasture
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I know for a fact video game adaptations are now the hot new trend.

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Minecraft, FNAF, Mortal Kombat 2, others studios are in the process of negotiating film Deals for other video games as we speak

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Soon there'll be a Crash Bandicoot movie, then a Duke Nukem movie, then a Banjo-Kazooie movie

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Personally the latter two would be things I'd be down to see if they're done well

green canopy
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||Among us||

sick pasture
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Holy shit i never even considered them

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I can see it being a kid friendly version of "The Thing"

green canopy
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The Thing for tiktok generation: The Rizz

sick pasture
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My idea is that it would be a horror sci fi who dunnit comedy

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Maybe there's a mystery creature and the whole crew have to find out who it is. The killers would of course have their own motive and a shocking twist reveal at the third act

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Like scream basically but in space

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And amongus

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An Undertale movie would also be cool

green canopy
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Off topic but I really wish Tetris had had a theatrical release because imagine the insanity it could have caused when paired up with the Mario movie

green canopy
nimble turret
sick pasture
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OH NO

sick pasture
sick pasture
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Big facts

umbral nova
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Super Mario Bros. would be a decent film, if it didn't have the brand attached to it...

tawdry yacht
tawdry yacht
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The fast pacing just makes it a fun re-watch, despite the story being too simplistic.

umbral nova
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Simplistic is an understatement, but it's a fun ride to be sure, perfect for theaters

half nymph
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Princess Peach!

rich wasp
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Despite the fact the Princess Peach is a total unit in this movie, the feminists are still raging.

umbral nova
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Peaches Peaches Peaches Peaches Peaches, Peaches Peaches Peaches Peaches Peaches, I looooove you!!!!!

umbral nova
rich wasp
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Of course i'm all for gender equality.

umbral nova
rich wasp
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Right.

next garnet
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We're very much not raging I don't think

rich wasp
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I dunno, i've seen some say that Peaches doesent properly represent or something...

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She didnt beat Bowser. Yah, that's the complaint.

atomic flame
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Well, doesnt Mario usually beat Bowser in the game? So, since its a Mario movie, of course Mario will have the last fight

rich wasp
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I know,right?

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But they wanted her to be the star of the movie.

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Some people, not everyone.

atomic flame
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Well, thats their fault

umbral nova
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And um.. I’m fully confident that Peaches would’ve beaten Bowser EVENTUALLY on her own, Mario just helped speed things along, honestly

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At least, this version of Peaches is amazingly GOATED

tawdry yacht
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The Super Mario movie opened up in Malaysia yesterday.

umbral nova
nimble turret
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I heard they censorship everything there

umbral nova
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It opens in 7 days in Japan, but that market is really hard to gauge

umbral nova
nimble turret
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Just wanted to say it lol

umbral nova
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Hahaha

severe summit
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This one is for my one and only true love, Princess Peach. (Sing along)

nimble turret
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I keep thinking he's saying "pizza" in that song like that SpongeBob bit

tawdry yacht
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I don't think Mario will pull off much numbers in Japan. Given how all western studio films don't get much out of Japan .

umbral nova
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The only reason it started late was to avoid bumping into Doraemon, one of the few bigger IP than it in Japan

half nymph
tawdry yacht
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So.. safe to say, even if the sequel fails, there are still chances that they would make a 3rd one?

umbral nova
rich wasp
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The Wario brothers maybe?

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I just want my Zelda flick.

half nymph
umbral nova
heavy depot
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Is that a drive thru?

severe summit
# umbral nova

Nice, I went to a Drive-in when a watched the Mario Movie.

heavy depot
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The last movie I saw there was Tom and jerry

umbral nova
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Interestingly enough not as bothered by Cranky Kong the second time around

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half nymph
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The screen is wayyy too small I’m not sure how you’d focus

rough bear
half nymph
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Ahh well that I can get behind

half nymph
umbral nova
umbral nova
tawdry yacht
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Guardians of the galaxy seems like it will be taking away that possibility of it getting 1.453 billion though

nimble turret
green canopy
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I'm both

half nymph
tawdry yacht
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Welp... I watched it the 3rd time yesterday, it wasn't as fun as the first, but the 2nd could've been way more fun, if it weren't for my friends irresponsible time management.

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I guess putting my head against the Dbox seat was not a great idea, but thought it would make a huge difference, only to wind up getting my head hurt at the back.

heavy depot
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How was that dbox thing

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Only theater sorta near us with that is all the way downtown

tawdry yacht
# heavy depot How was that dbox thing

For the Mario movie, it was decent, but it really depends on which movie, the Avatar 2 was the worst I had with it, was lackluster and most of the time didn't fit the visuals, John wick only had one scene that was fun, the rest just felt underwhelming, the 2nd or maybe first best was One Piece Film red.

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The kart scenes and action for DBox felt great and give you that adrenaline rush for the Mario movie.

heavy depot
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So is it just like advance seats or something

tawdry yacht
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But Japanese cinemas already has this feature for all seats, smell, air impact and many others.

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So theirs are way more advanced and immersive

heavy depot
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Sure does turn rollercoaster ride movies even more so into rollercoasters

tawdry yacht
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Yeah, that's what I meant by depending on the movie, if it's a movie like gravity, it will be very trippy.

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The kart scenes just felt so fun

half nymph
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You know what they say

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4th times the charm

umbral nova
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tawdry yacht
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I've seen movies like One Piece Film red 20 Times, and each session completely varies in terms of experience, with energy, people, and sitting position.

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Hang on, the $871 million box office right now counts with the Sunday online ticket sales?

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Or is it accumulated up to Saturday for 871 million?

sick pasture
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One Piece?

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More like

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Two Piece

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Amirite or amirite

heavy depot
tawdry yacht
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1 Billion is out of the question now.

next garnet
nimble turret
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animal crossing 😔

umbral nova
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nimble turret
umbral nova
# nimble turret Anime

The story is essentially: "Homeless person gets blackmailed into moving into a nearly deserted island, became the only laborer on it, as whoever blackmailed the person force them to build it into a resort to pay for their arbitrary debt"....

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THAT, won't break 500mil, mark my word tomlol

tawdry yacht
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umbral nova
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quaint dagger
# umbral nova

this is an awful way to watch a movie for the first time

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like i enjoy drive-in theaters, but they're way better when rewatching an older movie

umbral nova
quaint dagger
tawdry yacht
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Seems like Guardians of the galaxy 3 is projected to flop in the box office, so the Mario movie might still make the cut.

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rich wasp
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Dont care if it does. Its the last GOG and it'll be enjoyable and emotional.

green canopy
# next garnet Huh

While I agree with Zelda to a certain extent, it is far from being as universally recognizable as Mario

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Also a Smash Bros movie is not a good idea smug

rough bear
sour shuttle
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Well nevermind I went and looked up some articles, lol

rough bear
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I highly doubt GOTG3 is going to tank because of Super Mario. Seems like odd, unsubstantiated speculation.

sour shuttle
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Yeah the articles I read didn't list Mario as a reason either

rough bear
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The projections I've read put GOTG at $400M domestically, which... is common lmao

sour shuttle
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Yeah
But a far cry from previous phases

rough bear
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Not really. GOTG2 did $389M domestically

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GOTG: $333M

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People seem to forget international box offices are where it's at.

umbral nova
rough bear
sour shuttle
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Oh i was referring to overall world wide gross

rough bear
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GOTG: $773M (total)
GOTG2: $869M (total)

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We don't have an estimate for international.

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$400M seems pretty well in line with the others for a domestic box office.

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umbral nova
# rough bear People seem to forget international box offices are where it's at.

We can sort of see the international market numbers as inflated, for a Hollywood produced film, because the economics is different, and that a much larger cut out of the profit goes to the international distributors and theaters than it does domestically… so say you make a dollar on each $1.10-1.12 domestically, you make that on each $1.40-1.50 internationally… still, it’s a gauge

umbral nova
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It costs probably close to 200m, so to WRITE IT OFF, it’ll take 400m. Internationally the studios would make 100-150m for itself, if it can match the 400m domestic… not a major return, but decent enough to not be a total flop.

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That said, the staying power of Mario means that it’ll likely generate revenue easily all the way to the Christmas season… regardless of the theater:studio ratio favouring the theaters as time goes on… raw box office numbers don’t change.

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Guardians 3, on the other hand, if probably going to be a single time event… so Mario beating it is a foregone conclusion… the question again is if it’ll beat Frozen 2’s 1.45b or Live Action Lion King’s 1.6b

tawdry yacht
rough bear
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Ohhhhh, so an article that uses "Source: bro trust me"
right on

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quotes Yellow Flash
yeah the article can be tossed out

umbral nova
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The thing about box office is that not even people on the high echelons really knows it… it’s really a high-risk high-return gamble

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Guesswork all around

tawdry yacht
rough bear
atomic flame
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Sportskeeda is a trash site, dont look into it too much

sour shuttle
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Never been an MCU fan so if it does flop, I'll be happy

atomic flame
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Or be happy anyways instead for waiting something to fail

umbral nova
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I prefer positive energy into the universe, don’t be happy it failed, be happy it got made and people saw it

tawdry yacht
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Thing is with the films are, stories never really have story depth, nor try to find new innovative ideas, negativity is important to set the standards for criticisms, in order to avoid wasting time on films that we might not like.

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Mario was an exception for me, for its fanservice and fast pacing, despite that the story isn't good, Nintendo cooperated with illumination to fit in every single detail needed. Unlike 1993 Mario Movie.

atomic flame
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rough bear
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Life is too short to spend with so much hate in your heart. Tears you up

atomic flame
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Yeah, people take movie watching way too seriously sometimes especially folks on this server

umbral nova
rough bear
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A lot of young folks however are inundated with doomer philosophy of just being continuously negative, thinking that it'll make a difference. All it does is rot your own heart and alienates everyone around you.

I may not be a fan of the MCU but I recognize that those films are putting food on crew's tables and that's what is important to me.

umbral nova
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atomic flame
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Saying you like the MCU has become a crime by now sadly lol

umbral nova
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The main vitriol comes from, in my case, towards the MCU, is that they’ve been meandering since the spectacular Infinity War/End Game

rough bear
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Saying 'MCU bad' and praying for its destruction is odd.

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I personally have no stock invested in Disney, nor am i invested in the MCU post-Endgame but it keeps a lot of bellies full and lights on for many crew members in Atlanta so I'm alright with it.

umbral nova
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I know, the whole thing against Disney as well… I mean it’s not as evil compared to some actually evil mega corporations

rough bear
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I mean, Disney is pretty damn evil so I'm not gonna defend them. I'm just standing by my fellow working-class brothers and sisters.

umbral nova
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Rooting FOR Mario doesn’t mean that I have to debase Disney is all I’m saying

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(See? I circle back to the topic)

green canopy
umbral nova
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As I age, I’ve gone past that, I’m in the nihilistic stage

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See, it a person dies, it’s a tragedy, a few thousand is a mourning, a few hundred thousands is a massacre…. But if the whole race goes, it only sucks to be the survivors lol

green canopy
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Durant supremacy

umbral nova
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Or robot, or AI, or whatever alien… or natural/extraterrestrial disasters… we all gonna die

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Anyhow… back to MARIO lol

next garnet
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Just human nature, I think

umbral nova
rich wasp
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I like the MCU.

rich wasp
umbral nova
rich wasp
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My granddad died with a smile on his face. He figured: "Life is beautiful when you dont think about it too much." I suppose he might have been right.

next garnet
tawdry yacht
rough bear
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Cool

sour shuttle
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Feeling bad if it fails is too harsh you're right

A better non-douchebag way to say it would be, I'm in-different

rough bear
sour shuttle
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Ah 😅

nimble turret
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You think the mushrooms are chewy or crunchy like an apple

heavy depot
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When mario flew threw them, they looked soft and liquid-y

tawdry yacht
heavy depot
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Yeah basically

umbral nova
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Mushio?

tawdry yacht
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The Mario movie in Japan will have dialogues that are different from the west, that will fit their media.

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Same with western pop music being replaced.

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I wonder what music would be added in.

umbral nova
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OOOh now I'm intregued

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2 more days isn't it?

next garnet
sick pasture
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A DK spin off franchise is guaranteed. I am prepared for this announcement.

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rich wasp
wintry laurel
heavy depot
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Confusion

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Ik mario was created in japan but what

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The series felt like it was always mainly made to be marketable to western audiences and especially the movie so

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what does the movie benefit from being in japanese

next garnet
wintry laurel
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:(((

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They should put the Japanese track on the Blu-ray.

heavy depot
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Sometimes they do buy normally on the 4k disc only

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Ik 4k blu rays released by disney often put Japanese tracks, like my encanto 4k

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but universal never puts anything but english, french, and spanish on their discs

wintry laurel
tawdry yacht
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It's playing in these cinemas

umbral nova
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Hmm richmond huh..

tawdry yacht
wintry laurel
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Different music, huh?

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Mario drowns his sorrows by getting a full combo on a 10-star Oni

umbral nova
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Haven’t been to that cinema for 2 decades, not a bad idea

tawdry yacht
umbral nova
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Nobody’s gonna get that joke here except tech

wintry laurel
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umbral nova
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I sure Hope not, probably 80s equivalent joke

tawdry yacht
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Its such a damn shame I can't go 27km to my theater on Friday to watch JP, because I need to get braces

wintry laurel
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Maybe

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Hugs for Schwizzer

tawdry yacht
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I could get the Japanese blu-ray, but there are no subtitles for it like the movie theater does.

wintry laurel
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It's not playing here too, this sucks

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😭

umbral nova
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Looks like so far only these dates in Vancouver

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umbral nova
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I think they just figured that they were going to be too popular anyways, might as well just make one Bluray and put it in different packages lol

heavy depot
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So mario movie having Japanese on the disc is a small to no chance

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importing a jp blu ray of it would probably be most optimal

wintry laurel
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I don't think much of my Blu-rays have Japanese tracks.

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Maybe a few WB one's.

heavy depot
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Sony and wb 4ks have jp tracks but only for older movie releases, not newly released ones

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once again, only English, French, and spanish

wintry laurel
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That's probably just the American side, idk

umbral nova
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AS Japanese IMPORT

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North America used to get the best DVD releases, then Bluray era hit; they realized they don’t have to be tryhards

heavy depot
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Good thing I only care about video quality when it comes to blu ray/4k

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Because yeah there's normally nothing special about them

umbral nova
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Some don’t even have TRAILERS on them anymore… what would I watch were the AI take over and the INTERNET GOES KBLOOEY?

tawdry yacht
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It's just infuriating, I still don't know why they won't show this at my local theater, because the other area near me are filled with a majority of Chinese, that would 100% watch this.

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But instead it has to be in urban

heavy depot
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chinese? you mean asian?

tawdry yacht
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Wait, no 50.

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Japanese people only make up 0.01%, and Koreans way less than 1%

umbral nova
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We would be waiting for Japanese Bluray or VOD it seems. Wife vetoed seeing the movie 3 times in theaters, and specifically for Japanese because son isn’t versed in the language 1_painwalker

tawdry yacht
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I have the fomo mentality

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Because of subtitles

heavy depot
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You do realize you have to pay that again to return home right

tawdry yacht
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It's 45 and 45

umbral nova
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Also, same reason my wife vetoed a 45min drive, because “it’s just a slightly different variant”

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It’s not like it’s a slightly different VERSION, it’s just slightly different VARIANT.

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Anyhow, 90+tickets doesn’t seem of value for me

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It’s not THAT exciting, if you’ve already watched the movie

tawdry yacht
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It's a total for a trip there and on the way back.

tawdry yacht
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I'll try to take the train.

heavy depot
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green canopy
umbral nova
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Hmm no box office data on Japan yet, probably will have day 1 by late afternoon (noon Japan-ish)

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It's going to either be amazing or super underwhelming

tawdry yacht
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My vote goes to underwhelming for them, seeing through JP YouTube, JP articles, and other social media.

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They do not have much say about this at all.

umbral nova
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They do a lot of things like this tho, city promo, less online

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And they were shown trailers on the news

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so it's a... I donno... I think they just have different promo style

tawdry yacht
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Huh, well, damn, I hope i'm wrong then

half nymph
sullen ridge
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We won

tawdry yacht
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@half nymph I'll wait for the results and see for myself.

green canopy
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Mario sweep

rich wasp
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People will still say Illumination sucks despite this.

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I say Bravo to illumination.

green canopy
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Yeah, I agree this is their best movie to date

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Bravo

heavy depot
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That company knows how to make financial successful movies

tawdry yacht
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Seems like Japan has an English version for Mario

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All seats are sold out for the Mario movie in a theater for Japan.

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@umbral nova Seems like it's a big hit in Japan.

half nymph
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It doesn’t speak to quality does it

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sharp bolt
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its gonna hit a billion very soon

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if it hasnt already

heavy depot
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I'm sure it'll still be in theaters all next month and most of June so it'll still make a lot

umbral nova
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It’s apparently supposed to hit VOD soon, but I think they should wait

heavy depot
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Honestly it's not the worst idea

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They already made a crap ton from theaters

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People are still talking about the movie so the momentum can continue more with a home release

umbral nova
heavy depot
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December 31st is always a placeholder date

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We don't know officially when it's coming to disc

umbral nova
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September 1st in Canada, I might’ve misread earlier

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Pre-order has started on Amazon

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Sep 1st sounds more realistic, considering the movie was April 5th

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2-3 months theater exclusive, 1 month VOD chase up, 1 month physical

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Then, about a month or 2 before Netflix

heavy depot
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universal movies keep releasing at home and disc really quickly compared to other studios

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cocaine bear already came out on blu ray last week despite coming out in February

umbral nova
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Illumination and peacock has a deal with Netflix that it’ll send its film there for 10 month, about 6-7 months after release

umbral nova
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Less the theatrical run box office, faster the VOD/streaming

heavy depot
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Other universal movies that did big numbers like minions 2 and jurassic world 3 still came out like 2 months after release to blu ray

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June--> August
July --> September

umbral nova
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Yeah, 45-60 days

heavy depot
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I'm sure we'll see mario release on physical in june

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and on vod any week now

tawdry yacht
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I just gave two statements of what I saw from the pics

umbral nova
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The question, as always, is if they’ll beat frozen 2

heavy depot
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I think they will

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This movie has a lot of time to breathe

tawdry yacht
nimble turret
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Mexico for the win

umbral nova
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I think (without verifying of course) they did more business day to day compared to Frozen 2

umbral nova
# tawdry yacht Yeah but its not pulling a lot of numbers from China, for Frozen 2 its $100 mill...

China is a VERY complicated issue... Disney at the time of Frozen 2, is still VERY cozy with the government, who controls EVERYTHING. And NO foreign distributors/studios had the kind of pull Disney had, once they fell out.

Now Universal has a decent amount of pull (nothing close to Disney in its hay-day, of course), but had to rely more on local distributors to put in the promos and secure the theaters/screen... instead of Disney, who used to be able to do it directly.

Post-Pandemic (and post-Disney fallout), there are less theaters (the lockdown was crazy there, a lot of theaters closed, and the numbers hasn't recovered), as well as less foreign film placements (because many reasons, chiefly one of intensification of nationalized patriotic works in theaters, but that'll take too long to get into here), so there's VERY slim chance of China hitting more than 50mil before VOD comes in...

However, China has a much larger number of people (both by percentage and by raw numbers) who are subscribers of the 2 main VOD/Streaming platforms (and it's FAR less confusing there, because of the government's limit on media distribution licenses), so it may boost that number quite a bit on VOD.

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Sill, projection should be around 25-45mil for China, including VOD and streaming.

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Ultimately, 50mil difference should be easily made-up from other markets, so I don't personally think that China would be a deciding factor on if Mario makes it past Frozen II.

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The worry is more pandemic shift in media consumption habits, and people not going to theaters as much...

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The pandemic caused a significant uptick in both large (more than 50inch) screen purchases, as well as audio playback purchases (specifically soundbars). People THINK they are getting a closer experience to theaters (they are of course WRONG), so they don't need to go to theaters anymore, especially with it "coming out on VOD/streaming in a couple of months" anyways.

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Anyhooo... I'll stop ranting...

tawdry yacht
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I will need to do re-reads on what you typed up.

half nymph
next garnet
tawdry yacht
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I don't know how good it is for the retention and the pacing of the money earning, but I have doubts it could pass Frozen 2

tawdry yacht
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@umbral nova Well....

rich wasp
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Illumination Ichiban!!!

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1.7b yen = about 14mil, which is extremely good in Japan

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# tawdry yacht

Japan's 2022 box office champion was One Piece Movie: Red, which had a 16.6mil USD opening weekend, Mario just had a 14.4mil USD (not yet final though, so might still change)...

Japan's ALL TIME highest grossing film Demon Slayer: Mugen Train, had a 31.4mil opening weekend.... both of the other films are also SUMMER releases, so there's a slight advantage there... the fact that Mario had a SPRING release (it's graduation season in Japan, so most of the target demographics would be rather busy, which puts it at a slight disadvantage) and still got anywhere close is a major feat by itself.

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I've watched One Piece Film Red 20 times in theaters myself actually.

I was never a fan of demon slayer, i'm struggling to watch the swords smith arc.

But do those release timings really effect the pulls throughout its showtime span for 90 days? Is it because as time goes on, there will be new competitions and that the Mario movie will wind up moving to a smaller auditorium, with lower picture and speaker quality? @umbral nova

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I don't think the enjoyment of Mario absolutely depend on the quality of the projection and sound system... but Japan is weird, as the MAJORITY of the theaters are either Aeon-related, Toho-related, or United/Cineplex-related, so as movies goes into second tier cities or below, they will occasionally get a bump for seemingly no reasons (I'm sure there are reasons, but it's beyond my knowledge) since a movie that makes money can stay in theaters almost as long as they want to.

With the local distribution partner being Toho-Towa (some new cinemas, but a lot of older ones), I think it'll play for a LONG time.

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# tawdry yacht I've watched One Piece Film Red 20 times in theaters myself actually. I was ne...

The key is that Japanese treats cinema still more like an "evening out" sort of thing, with some special occasion feel attached to it. So VOD and Streaming probably won't mess with the numbers that much, with some film still playing once or twice a week, or weekend as "babysitter", for more than 6 months... I think Mugen was 8 months, and One Piece: Red was 5.

Normal foreign films stays around 6 WEEKS though, I think... so it all depend on if Mario is considered Japanese or Foreign, and what the deals are between Universal/Illumination/Nintendo/Toho is regarding to long term profit.

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Wait hang on, as you've said from before... Mario was put at a slight disadvantage for spring. But as of right now, they have a 1 week vacation for golden week. Students get these days off as well.

umbral nova
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It's SAKURA season, after all...

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this is by far Illumination's most expensive animated film

atomic flame
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Nice

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No wonder my friend said that they will spend on the sequel as less as humanely possible.

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Why would they? I mean, 20min difference was probably spent on Nintendo meeting and stuff anyways… which brings us back to the 80mil normal illumination budget

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Unlike most industries where “bulk” generally means “cheaper”, film economics don’t really always work that way… tech is progressing all the time, and audience expectations is higher on a success. It stands to argue that hey would spend at least the same (which is arguably “cheaper” already due to inflations and actors/crew wanting to get paid more etc)

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I'm just waiting for those YouTubers to make those "all mario references in the mario movie"

heavy depot
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Give it a few weeks once the digital version is out

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So much musical references in Mario

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the reference video is gonna be longer than the movie

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Ahhahaha naw… even a video essay of like… Dune, is not much longer than an hour and half

heavy depot
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Omg that's literally him

tawdry yacht
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@umbral nova The super Mario movie was illegally uploaded on Twitter for the full hour. And has 9 million views after it's taken down. Would that effect the box office?

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“How many times a movie had been pirated” is becoming a new matrix of the popularity… and honestly, people who will watch a pirated film will always watch it pirated… people who prefer theater will always prefer theaters

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HE'S REAAAAAL

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ima see it when it hits digital

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I’m contemplating VODing it

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But VOD way overpriced lately… $27 Canadian for DND

golden vapor
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im saving my money on guardians 3

umbral nova
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Got tix for Sunday

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I'm pretty sure the 9 million figure for the twitter uploaded mario is how many people started the video. I bet around twenty people watched the whole movie on twitter because why would you?

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Yup, it’s not like those people would’ve contributed to the box office one way or another anyways

burnt barn
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watching something on twitter it was most likely people who already saw the movie and on the twitter thing they just skipped forward to rewatch Peaches, Peaches, Peahces a couple of times

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Ahhaha

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boneless lego movie. jack black was really good tho. one of the only ppl that fit their character lmao

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good time to rec the original mario bros movie. it's actually decent

tawdry yacht
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Should I watch Mario 4 the time or DND?

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At theaters now

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Can't make up my mind

sick pasture
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DND. i didn't watch it but mario's boring so

tawdry yacht
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I was think about experiencing the iMax for Mario for my 4th watch

heavy depot
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If you enjoy it that much, go ahead

tawdry yacht
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Yeah, I regret so much watching DND.

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Mario is more fun and memorable for me with the Easter eggs, osts, voice acting and etc.

obtuse verge
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I bloody loved this

nimble turret
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Besides old man playing arcade, who else did the og mario VA voice

heavy depot
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Mario's das

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dad

golden vapor
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i still need to see

burnt barn
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DnD also was filled to the brim with easter eggs

half nymph
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HD stills here we come

heavy depot
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We have to wait a week longer

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man

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golden vapor
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Side note, in the soundtrack, the song is called Level Complete

obtuse verge
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i only leave early if im short on time

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after movies i usually bus home

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so if my bus doesnt line up to be after the credits

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In terms of Mario, we can learn a lot about how many people on rigging, environments… how many people are in charge with communicating with Nintendo etc. I expect to spend more time with the credits once VOD is out.

tawdry yacht
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BUT MY GOD?! how did Mario jump from 1,059, to 1,150?! Does the Sunday even count towards this?!

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I was expecting it to be a $20 million jump, but whaaa?

umbral nova
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Wow, it might actually beat Frozen 2? O_o

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It’ll probably be hard to beat Frozen 2 with a post pandemic release schedule… unless they do re-releases of it in Christmas

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Or summer vacation

tawdry yacht
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How long had you been analyzing the movie industry box office?

umbral nova
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I just think that Mario is a superior film to Frozen 2, honestly

tawdry yacht
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Welp... I hope it can beat Frozen 2 then...

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I mean Peaches is already better than Let it go

umbral nova
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No let it go is frozen 1

tawdry yacht
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PFFT oh

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Frozen 2 is “into the unknown” which is mid compared to “let it go”

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Frozen 2 got a lot of boost from China… which Mario didn’t get because of the fast-changing Chinese viewing habits due to the pandemic

heavy depot
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There are still no results for Poland though

umbral nova
# tawdry yacht There are still no results for Poland though

Population density from Poland makes it not so much of a factor, compared to like, China... so all the MAJOR markets I think are in already in-progress... I know I said earlier that China probably wouldn't be a factor for Mario overtaking Frozen 2, but that 100mil gap is... hard I think... I may have to eat my own words

tawdry yacht
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Fighting Tooth and Veil OST is good too. When skipped to 1:19

nimble turret
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We have nothing else to say about this film do we

heavy depot
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it's a illumination film there's typically not much to say about them

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End of June, but every state is different I think. Domestically it should be close to done at this point, but it’s still reliably doing 1-8mil a day, which is very impressive at more than a month after release. Honestly I think it’ll do 20mils more or so before the numbers dips below 1mil a day, and 10mil before it dips to below 100k a day.

next garnet
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Summer is a bit of a wildcard. Typically there are some event viewings and limited theater. Those has very big variance, anywhere between less than 1mil box office to 20+ mil box office are possible, because it depends on the theaters. That is, if Universal and the local distributing partners don’t choose to do a push of some kind, that is.

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Toy tie in, game tie in, double features, reduced admission, prize give away etc etc.

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I’m almost going to bet that there’s an internal desire to beat Frozen 2, so they may push for summer and Christmas. Though realistically Summer isn’t going to be anything super significant, but Christmas could be interesting with things like extended edition or something like that. Who knows.

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Gots to have a gimmick to get people back into the theater to boost the numbers.

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Frozen 2, for instance, had a “singalong version”

obtuse verge
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie: 3 hour cut

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#releasethemiyamotocut

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But yes! From experience working at a theatre, summer is pretty hit and miss with how many people will come. More people want to be outside lol

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lmao yes give us the miyamoto cut

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Like in general i see a lot@more attendance in the first and last quarters of a year

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the middle two waver

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Summer you have to make it an EVENT, to make it work

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“Look how explody are our explosions, and how punch-y are our kong fu:.. and look at that big cgi!”

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Mario, I don’t see it as a massive performer in the summer… it’s a crowd pleaser, but not really extra spectacular and boom boom pew pew.

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Of course, if this summer is extra hot… who knows.

half nymph
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He didn't like it, did he

half nymph
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No

green canopy
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Good for him

sick pasture
nimble turret
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I remember hearing that when video tweets he saw a movie, you can tell if he liked it depending on how he sentenced it

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Too lazy to fix his name

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See? Japan is still just hitting

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heheh

half nymph
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If he likes it he’ll write a bit about it

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And you can see for Mario it got,well, a sentence

rich wasp
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A sentence with a power-up mushroom.

golden vapor
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still need to see it

nimble turret
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Rewatchin this

tawdry yacht
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I will say this..... The Mario movie is unbeatable in terms of being the highest video game movie adaptation.

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Which other game even has the potential in doing so? League of Legends? Because thats the closest to the next biggest thing I can think of.

heavy depot
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mario easily has the largest worldwide appeal out of any game franchise

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helped by having a long and important legacy

tawdry yacht
heavy depot
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I don't think anything could come close except maybe a call of duty, fortnite, or gta film adaption

tawdry yacht
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Mario is forever !

heavy depot
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Depends if it's even good enough and/or faithful

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The only way to surpass the Mario movie adaptation, is for Nintendo themselves to release a Mario sequel for it. xD

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I don't think Zelda would come close either, I mean I think it'll be high up there, but not at the Mario level.

heavy depot
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Yeah I've never seen Zelda anywhere near close to mario in terms of popularity

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Until breath of the wild came out, I think that game expanded the fanbase for the series by a ton, but still not as big as mario

tawdry yacht
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I've seen it 3 times already, i'm itching to watch it for the 4th time.

rich wasp
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LoL does not have nearly the four-quadrant appeal that is in a Mario

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the problem with other games-turned-movies is that the games themselves were movie derivatives so the movie version of the game that was inspired by a movie is just a worse version of the movies they were inspired by (See: Tomb Raider, Uncharted, AssCreed)

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Well League of Legends is or was the most played video game in the world.

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I haven't played it in a long time though.

rich wasp
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Brand recognition only goes so far. This show was the shit!

obtuse verge
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ive honestly never played LoL and im not super caring to

tawdry yacht
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And now that i'm older, I never knew how damn time consuming it is.

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Back then, games used to last an average of 22 minutes, but there are times where it'll last longer like 40-50. But as of how things changed now, not sure.

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Would buying this really support the Mario movie?

obtuse verge
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30$ wtf

rich wasp
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Never played LoL either, but the show was pretty darn good, imo.

tawdry yacht
heavy depot
half nymph
nimble turret
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Every single reference in the mario movie videos here we come

tawdry yacht
rich wasp
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Or else they'll end up like Gary Bowser.

cursive kraken
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faster than theater release in Poland xD

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While Illumination did great job in animation department, their humor, writing and music choices dragged this title pretty heavily

golden vapor
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just watched

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its good

tawdry yacht
golden vapor
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I was able to understand all of the references

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I felt like I was home

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visuals were some of the best animations I've seen as well as the style

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pacing issues were definitely noticeable

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things just kind of happened

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but I wonder if that was on purpose

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chris pratt, seth rogan, charlie day, and anna taylor joy did not fit in the movie as well as I would like

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Like, I understand that they couldn't just imitate the classic style, but couldn't they just add it into their voices a little more? Just enough to sound familiar?

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I expected peach to sound more like a classic disney princess

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fun fact: mario not liking mushrooms is a reference to shigeru miyamoto adding mushrooms to the original super mario bros game because his son did not like mushrooms

umbral nova
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More contribution to the film

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Nice stuff

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Also streaming it in theater 1 right now

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A sugary speed-run through the mushroom kingdom, and exactly what you'd expect from a nintendo/illumination animated collaboration. This is inoffensive, happy-go-lucky multiplex fare. Kids will love it. Features pretty, albeit standard, animation and typical celebrity voice-acting issues. On the way out of the theater, an electronic sign in the lobby had advertisements for Lego Mario. This movie will make all of the money and in that sense it is a grand success for corporate synergy.

heavy depot
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You combine two money hungry studios like illumination and nintendo this is understandably what happened

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Same with Lego and nintendo

umbral nova
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@tawdry yacht Continuing from the JW4 thread

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If you remove International (which is a much more complicated formulas involving local distributing partners and production translation/dubbing etc etc), Mario made a LOT more money than Frozen 2 ANYWAYS... despite (at least so far) not having passed Frozen 2's All Time Global record.

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Ahh I see, I'll need to re read this 2 more times

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@umbral nova So you've stated that Mario wanted to surpass/needed Frozen 2, but as it implies from Miyamoto, he thinks that earning this much has to be very lucky, so Nintendo was not expecting this.

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It was from one of the interview I've watched where he stated.

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Obv they HAVE to say that… and the Iger “congratulations” is basically “hey, better f’n luck next time”

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It’s all in the subtext

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Mind you, Nintendo probably is walking away with between 200-300mil of “low effort” money, why wouldn’t they say that “it was lucky”, you know?

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They didn’t spend much on it, and the supervision stuff is mainly reading some scripts and dealing with internal meetings and approval sessions, on top of some press work. Compared to actually making a game or the movie themselves.

cursive kraken
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tawdry yacht
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Lot Efforts = good money

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Nintendo Pictures, is mostly considered "support and animation support", but who knows... it could be used in other ways... it used to be called Dynamo, before being bought by Nintendo in 2022, and used to do mocap and in-game animation for games.

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It doesn't really have the capacity to take on something like Super Mario Bros, with only 105 employee at one point. Which again leads me to believe that it's established for other reasons, we'll see.

tawdry yacht
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Mario is on it's way to surpass Frozen 1 now, being ranked at the 20th spot

umbral nova
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Nintendo obviously can finance the movie themselves, but building animation studio from ground up is whole different animal. It will take years to hire people with talent and know-how to run that kind of operation.

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Nintendo Pictures is probably gonna make cutscenes, trailers, ads... Maybe they can scale up in couple years to tackle something as complex as theatrical release

heavy depot
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The peeps at next level games and the mario + rabbids ubisoft team does a really great job animating the mario cast

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A lot better so than nintendo themselves tbh, their cutscene work is just super charming and well polished

tawdry yacht
umbral nova
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Sorry, narcissism lol

naive hatch
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I saw this movie. I loved it. They clear up the Mario accent right at the very start. Very very nice. The way they did that. Love Chris Pratt.

umbral nova
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Thin story, awesome ride… then again, not much story in Mario games anyways

cursive kraken
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its mostly just ride without much plot

umbral nova
cursive kraken
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gotta speed that up like 10 times

umbral nova
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Slow is meller

rich wasp
rough bear
cursive kraken
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Any time I hear the name Jennifer Connelly I automatically thing Labrynth

rich wasp
heavy depot
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DEFINATELY a MOVIE

rich wasp
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rich wasp
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So what do you think Brooklyn is doing with that giant bowser castle

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It’s rubble now

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Just checked, it exploded, and is rubble now

nimble turret
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Still left a huge mess and several square blocks gone

umbral nova
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Middle of the intersection

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And it’s Brooklyn, they are a resilient bunch

nimble turret
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My theory is that the wrecking crew is cleaning up the mess and a certain duo of yellow and purple discover the item blocks and the plot of Spiderman: homecoming happens

umbral nova
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Ahhaha wrong studio

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Spiderman is Disney/Marvel/Sony; Mario is Universal/Illumination/Nintendo

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The two shall not cross

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Some multiverses can’t be combined, unfortunately

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Now if it caused the Nightmare Future from Justice League, I’ll buy that

nimble turret
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Let me have my crackpot theory

umbral nova
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Because WB/DC and Universal are tight

umbral nova
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heavy depot
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It popped out of the construction place

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maybe not much people got hurt

tawdry yacht
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Wow, mario beated Frozen now, how much longer will the Mario movie be in theaters for?

high frigate
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Eternity

heavy depot
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The end of summer probably

cursive kraken
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i'm sure Disney will push it out of kid slots eventually

heavy depot
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inb4 mario survives longer in theaters than elemental

umbral nova
umbral nova
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But at what costs do re-releases do?

umbral nova
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Cost?

tawdry yacht
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I guess none then.

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Because since they do re releases it will take up an auditorium.

umbral nova
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There will be some cost, but that is mostly offset by the theaters’ DCP kit rental cost

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That’s what re-releases are good for, since the rental is generally between 300-600USD a week, with less limitations on minimum screens and showings, as well as generally better box office percentage for the theaters.

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First run films rentals costs more, especially because it would have shipping and additional costs that may or may not be shared by the distributors, and the theater only makes 10% (on average) and most of the time the theaters also has to guarantee minimum screens and showings, as well as other terms that can be confusing.

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For Mario, for instance, the theater will likely leave the DCP on the local server, because they probably will replay it in theaters in the summer, regardless of official re-issue.

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They can’t play it anyways after the encryption key expires, but will save shipping and other things, they just need to pay for a new rental key.

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umbral nova
# tawdry yacht Huh? 10%? Theaters, and distributors would always keep that confidential. Last y...

Normally, theaters makes not more than 10% of the box office for the opening week of any given film in North America. It slides up higher as time goes on. International are different each region, but generally fluctuate between that number as well, though some theaters may make much more in places where the distributors and/or studios owns the theater chains, which had been illegal in North America between 1949 and 2020.

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So basically, at least on first release, movie theaters makes the bulk of their revenue on food and beverage, not tickets.

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Hence the heavy emphasis (at least here in North America) of “get a popcorn”

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Theaters can get a slight boost in revenus if they claim minimum operating cost (make i think up to 30% of a film’s ticket on release, up to their minimum overhead) but that usually mean a much slower slide-up on percentage later, and are mostly claimed by smaller single or double screen and art house theaters, less done with megaplexes.

umbral nova
nimble turret
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Yassssss

umbral nova
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I’m sure there are more lol

tawdry yacht
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I really should start saving all your answers to my folder.....

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Goddamn... I regret not doing it earlier, so I can always look back on it and do re-reads

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So the cut from the theaters do not get included in the box office, correct?

umbral nova
# tawdry yacht So the cut from the theaters do not get included in the box office, correct?

The box office is the COMBINED number of the ticket sales, each distributors and studios works out the percentage with the movie theaters/chains normally, and that percentage isn’t removed from the actual pre-tax and pre-processing fees total revenue numbers, because each deal is different, and they DON’T want people really to know the exact numbers (not to mention that it looks better with a bigger number).

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So, if you buy a ticket for $10, then $10 is counted towards the box office, despite $1 going to the theaters, and generally $4.5 goes to distributor and $4.5 goes to the studio. The deal between the studio and the distributor(s) may also be different than “half”, since outside of PR and Marketing, the distributors’ general cost remains fixed per theater (per print in the old days).

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It doesn’t matter if a film costs $10mil or $100mil, if the distributor wants to show it in 1000 theaters, their distributing (making different formats DCP for each theaters from the studio’s DCPM, copying of the hard disks, shipping and handling), will be between 1.5mil to 2mil. They are however, expected to front some money toward PR and Marketing in each region they represent. So in terms of a $10mil film, they are EXPECTED to throw in between 8-8.5mil (to bump their costs to a full $10mil); and in terms of the $100mil film, they would be expected to be putting in 98-98.5mil toward PR and Marketing (for an even $100 mil).

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Of course, the actual math is much more complex than the above theoretical math, since the studio could’ve been getting money back as tax break, reducing actual SPENT budget vs PUBLISHED budget, or put in some PR and Marketing money to take a bigger percentage of the box officer cut from the distributor etc etc.

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Increasingly, also, studios are offsetting their costs by contracting out bits and bobs, meaning say Illumination and Nintendo may be putting in SOME money (or additional work) against Universal. In those case the studio itself wouldn’t be making as much of the box office money as if they funded the whole thing themselves.

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It’s ALL about the contract negotiations between the Studio with the Production, the Studio with Distribution, and the Distribution with theaters/theater chains, with the production budget as a gauge toward each’s responsibilities. Larger (usually financial, unless it’s a borrowed IP like Mario) responsibilities = bigger cut of the box office, generally speaking.

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A good example is Spider-Man… for things like Endgame, Sony puts in really a couple of millions to make sure they have some returns on “their character”, and things like No Way Home would be close to 50/50 split budget between Disney and Sony, while Venom would be like 100% Sony funded, with Marvel on a bit of a consulting position (so “work”) for 2-5% of the box office cut. Actual deals are probably far more complicated, but that’s the gist of it.

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Fun ones are the super indies like Blare Witch Project, where there’s really no Major Studio funding the production, and the production would be selling the distribution rights for probably 20-30% of the box office cut, but distribution would be paying for all of the mastering and duplicating costs, and of course PR and Marketing, for a massive 70-80% cut, after the theaters got their 10%.

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That’s why, traditionally, it’s been said that a film “breaks even” at double its budget. Though realistically, with Major Studio productions, breaking even could be really more like 3x budget, or more, depending on the funding/investing breakdowns, and other deals, because they have to get more money back to support their large size, and PR and Marketing from the Studio side.

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But as I’ve said earlier, major studios can absorb a flop much better using different accounting techniques and its various revenue streams, while they don’t really make as much as they “think” they should on a success. If you have seen the film The Producers that’s a super simplified logics (and of course wrong in all the details) of how a failed project can sometimes be better for the studio than a success. Since if it’s a failure, they can absorb or write it off through creative accounting, but if it’s a success, they need to PAY real money to other involved parties.

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Disney writing off $1.5-1.8bil as “impairment charges” from Disney+, for instance, is one such accounting practice. Real cost to the company is minimal, but they are “writing off money they would’ve spent if they kept those things as active assets”, so it’s really “fake money” for accounting purposes.

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I mean, it’s real money (licensing, residuals, server space, bandwidth cost… some of those numbers are actually very arbitrary… and some of these money are like, between D+ and Disney Animation or D+ and LucasFilms, so left hand to right hand sort of accounting) but they haven’t spent it.

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It’s basically optimization of accounting, toward things that DOES get views and will bring in new subs or keep old subs… if that makes any sense.

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All that is of course, before we start to talk about international markets, and those deals are even more complicated because you have so many regions and local distributing partners. I really don’t want to think about those because I don’t want my head to explode lol.

umbral nova
rough bear
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Oh my god, saved

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5.5/10, maybe a 6

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Pros:
-Animation is well adapted
-Charlie Day and Jack Black give good voice performances
-Score and sound design slap
-Tone stays true to the spirit of the games

Cons:
-Writing is terrible
-Voice acting otherwise is basically just the actors speaking normally
-Bad music choices
-Way too little that wasn’t already shown in the trailers
-Humor kinda sucks

heavy depot
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Yeah I think I'll like this one a lot less as time goes on

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It's kinda whatever to me now

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I think mario deserves better still, have no hopes for the sequel to be any better because illumination never tries with their sequels

neon carbon
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Illumination’s business model is making cheap movies that look extremely appealing to little kids

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Mario is definitely better than a lot of their catalog

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But they haven’t made one genuinely good flick besides the original despicable me

obtuse verge
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Mario is better than literally their entire catalog

rich wasp
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The sing movies are whatever

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Despicable me 1 is good though

obtuse verge
severe summit
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"Be like Mario. He's an Italian plumber created by Japanese people, who speaks English and looks like a Mexican. Jumps like a black man and grabs coins like a Jew." - An Old Meme

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don't take it too seriously

half nymph
cursive kraken
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Ofc there are.

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It made fucking billion dollar

umbral nova
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rich wasp
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Please let it be A Link to the past!

naive hatch
heavy depot
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Anybody grab this movie on disc yet?

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Came out tuesday

umbral nova
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Have it on VOD

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Sometimes when the disc is out, iTunes adds the extras

obtuse verge
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fuck no

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not illumination

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not for Zelda

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fuck no please god help

heavy depot
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I'm scared too

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One step closer to tom holland link 💀💀💀💀💀

rich wasp
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As a voice, would he be really that bad?

copper quiver
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just watched the movie

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It's a mid

rich wasp
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Good thing i was born in the 80's.

naive hatch
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I found this movie to be great, and at the same time, it was a little triggering of my adhd. I had to really really concentrate to follow it. Myabe that is a "me" thing and the rest of the world did not experience this?

rough bear
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Well you're not the only neurodivergent in the world so it's quite possible other neurodivergents may have experienced it.

umbral nova
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My son didn't like it as much when he was ON meds, as when he WASN'T... so there may be some truth in that theory

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heavy depot
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Remember when physical media sales could earn like $200+ million

burnt barn
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no

umbral nova
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It’s all because people know it’ll be on streaming a couple of months later than VOD

tawdry yacht
umbral nova
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Depending on the deals, Illumination, Nintendo, and Universal may each get about 13mil, if broken down evenly (it won’t be), but no matter what, the actual numbers of 45mil income (up to 40% to platforms) is just icing on the cake anyways.

golden vapor
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good but flawed

umbral nova
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I already VOD'd it too, after watching it in theaters twice lol

tawdry yacht
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Super marios box office for South Korea looks very disappointing compared to the presence to Frozen 2.

umbral nova
tawdry yacht
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Ah it's 120 mil away from frozen 2. :/

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20 days will not be enough

umbral nova
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Nope

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One of the bigger issues is STREAMING

tawdry yacht
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What's the reason for an early release of that on May?

umbral nova
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Both in the sense that people are waiting to see things on streaming (particularly a family film which is better served at home), and that movies go into streaming a lot faster during and after the pandemic

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tawdry yacht
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there will be a bump from summer holidays though right?

umbral nova
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I'd say they would've been making a push in Nov or Dec, but as far as I can tell, they won't beat Frozen 2

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The fact that, as a POST pandemic, post China breakdown film, it was able to even get close, is nothing short of a miracle, honestly speaking

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I mean, you have to really see it in the bigger perspective... it's STILL number 7 in North American Domestic market 2 days ago.... that's crazy.

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Another thing to consider is that, ultimately, Frozen II will probably made LESS money than Super Mario Bros. when it's all said and done. We are 120mil away, though in reality it's only 20mil away before they "make the same amount of money", because Mario has 100mil budget, and Frozen 2 has 150mil... meaning that you need to substract 100mil from Frozen 2's box office compared to Mario, to see how much the studios are making. Of course, the cavieat is that Frozen is ALL Disney, while Mario is Universal, Nintendo, Illumination sharing the pot.

copper quiver
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Mario movie hate will grow now because Spider-Verse has more style with substance in their animation and they'll look at mario movie and just find bland substance behind good graphics and animation

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# copper quiver Mario movie hate will grow now because Spider-Verse has more style with substanc...

Naw, different reasons to exist, comparing the two is like comparing Despicable Me to Wall-E, doesn’t compute… but I guess people are so full of hate these days that they will try anything. That said, MARIO with SUBSTANCE? Are you kidding me? It’s about a lizard turtle in love with a princess and the everyday hero elevated to save her (tho she is more of less capable to save herself, albeit with probably more collateral and bystander damage)… it was designed to have no substance other than “when the levels are too hard, you should try again and again until you pass it, and oh buy more of our games and merch”…. Doesn’t mean that it’s not a great ride tho.

burnt barn
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mario is a kids movie and spider-man is a tween kids movie

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different audiences

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heavy depot
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The story and characters were infinitely more compelling too

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Both movies are from very popular and beloved ips, but I think mario really depends on that established love to get the most out of the film, whereas anybody can connect to either spider verse film without much knowledge of it beforehand

golden vapor
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good movie but flawed

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night pagoda
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I agree Spider-verse 2 is a heck of a good looking movie. Probably the best-looking animated movie ever. I don't think Mario is too far behind tho. It's certainly pushing a cool vignette look and has very popping imagery.

obtuse verge
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Yeah I mean, obviously ATSV is superior visually, but this movie definitely pops on screen and looks very goof

oblique dew
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https://vxtwitter.com/nintendoamerica/status/1671865897781428225

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Here’s a video message from Shigeru Miyamoto of Nintendo and Chris Meledandri of Illumination, the co-producers of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, to express their appreciation to all of our fans for watching the film. #Su…
Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica)

Here’s a video message from Shigeru Miyamoto of Nintendo and Chris Meledandri of Illumination, the co-producers of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, to express their appreciation to all of our fans for watching the film. #Su…

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timber mantle
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4.5/5

night pagoda
half nymph
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They save those for the Directs

umbral nova
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This is just typical Japanese “humbly gloat” ehhehe

old vine
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Movie was alright, they should’ve just made a super smash bro movie if donkey Kong was in it, 🍿

rich wasp
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or a DK movie since mario was in it.

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Cuz historically, as far as video games are concerned, Mario started in Donkey Kong.

old vine
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Huh. I don’t remember seeing two Italian characters with there initials on there hats, in the games? Unless you’re saying Mario gameplay originated from donkey Kong?

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[You saying they have the same style?]

rich wasp
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Mario originated from DK, yes.

umbral nova
rich wasp
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Bottom line, Just Mario and DK do not a Smash movie make.

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Think we'll get a...Smashverse of sorts?

umbral nova
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Mario and Sonic in a movie together ehhehe

nimble turret
neon carbon
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I genuinely can’t think of one great aspect of this movie

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It does mostly everything competently but nothing really excels at all

obtuse verge
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its great tho

cursive kraken
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rich wasp
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Well...I thought those were great, anyways.

golden vapor
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its fine

half nymph
obtuse verge
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fucking peacock.

heavy depot
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good for the four people who have it

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it'll probably eventually hit Netflix like every other illumination film

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rich wasp
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i dunno. I like me some Columbo.

cursive kraken
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you could do a lot worse than watch Columbo for a month for 5$

neon carbon
sour shuttle
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how did yall react when you first heard Luigi say "that is cinema"?

cursive kraken
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i don't remember any line that wasn't said by Jack Black

sour shuttle
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Lol

cursive kraken
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and even his.. .it's mostly just "Peaches"

umbral nova
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SANG

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Peaches peaches peaches peaches peaches; peaches peaches peaches peaches peaches... I LOOOOVE yoooooooou!

naive hatch
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Princess peach

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cursive kraken
jagged salmon
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I still have the peaches song stuck in my head

heavy depot
naive hatch
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I must be dreaming…

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She has come soooo far since The VVitch.

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I love this movie from start to finish.

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https://vxtwitter.com/supermarioooc85/status/1677531246979588097

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This is incredible 【QRT of vel 🏳️‍⚧️ (@_Velvet64):】 'KIDZ BOP COVERED PEACHES FROM THE MARIO MOVIE I REPEAT KIDZ BOP COVERED PEACHES FROM THE MARIO MOVIE https://t.co/vL0yaPtQAc' 💖 9
No Context Super Mario (@SuperMarioOOC85)

This is incredible
【QRT of vel 🏳️‍⚧️ (@_Velvet64):】
'KIDZ BOP COVERED PEACHES FROM THE MARIO MOVIE I REPEAT KIDZ BOP COVERED PEACHES FROM THE MARIO MOVIE https://t.co/vL0yaPtQAc'

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heavy depot
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This is fire 🔥 take it down!!

nimble turret
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This is Jr and the koopalings when bowser told them peach was their mother

old vine
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First ‘k-bop’ song I heard, I was like “what is this Shii”
I was gonna do, the person who played me the song a favor, and throw there 💿 away. Lol
{wasn’t really going to do that}

foggy slate
neon carbon
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The original song is a forced meme anyways

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If it gets nominated for an award over Am I Dreaming I’m screaming

old vine
oblique dew
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original is the only way to listen

golden vapor
heavy depot
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So tru

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A series as special as mario deserved better

harsh pelican
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I mean, the animation was really good but the story was quite good.. didn't bother me as I had a lot of fun and clearly many people did as well. I think this movie is gonna be the highest grossing movie of 2023.

umbral nova
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¯_(ツ)_/¯ people want FUN in this drab time, who’d thought?

next valley
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This movies theatrical window is still going how

umbral nova
umbral nova
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It seems to be making average nearly 3-4K per theater playing it per day over the weekend, which is still very strong number at a whopping 11th weekend.

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Even in the olden days of 90 days release window, and 180 days before physical media and VOD, it’s good numbers. In these days of 30 days release window and 60 days VOD it’s stupidly good numbers.

golden nebula
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very fun, def cool to see my childhood adapted into a movie

night pagoda
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Just wish the story was better because clearly the script needed more work. Feels like there's moments where the characters could sit down and talk but most of those moments don't last over 30 seconds.

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Which is less than ideal especially because the ideas and said moments are there but very undercooked by what feels like a very obvious 90 min runtime mandate.

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The directors should definitely try now that they have some clout with the enormous box office this movie made to push the runtime next time and make it more character-driven

rich wasp
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Didnt even know Mario had an extended family.

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Who knew?

golden vapor
night pagoda
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Even on the tighest production timeline, an animated movie production timeline needs 3 years minimum to get made.

heavy depot
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100% bet they knew this movie would be huge before it released and plans were already made

night pagoda
naive hatch
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10/10

golden vapor
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Not even close

naive hatch
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11/10 ?

obtuse verge
naive hatch
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8.5 / 10. Final offer

wintry crag
obtuse verge
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this movie is like a 6 or 7 of ten in a normal sense but on an enjoyment scale its a 10 lol

naive hatch
slender trout
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I stayed until the credits just to she yoshi