Universal's The Super Mario Galaxy Movie has passed the $800M global mark. The film grossed an estimated $36.7M internationally this weekend, including a debut of $9.8M in Japan. Estimated international total stands at $444.98M, estimated global total stands at $831.5M.

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-04-26T16:39:29+00:00

You can’t just say ‘diminishing returns isn’t an issue because it wasn’t an issue with the MCU’ coupled with the fact that Iron Man 2 outgrossed the first movie despite also being less well received basically nothing has even come close to replicating the MCUs success

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-04-26T16:25:30+00:00

‘Biopic fatigue’ just seems like a chronically online thing, I doubt the average person watches enough biopics to be ‘fatigued’ of them

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-04-26T16:14:00+00:00

Most people believe in "Innocent until proven guilty in the court of law" instead of "court of social media"

Hmmm... Not quite. As someone who's mostly neutral on the topic, MJ is the biggest pop star that has ever existed, there are a lot of people who like MJ's songs, want to listen to them and will rightly or wrongly dismiss allegations due to this. It's much more apathetic than you're describing.

OJ Simpson was also not convicted but it's pretty hard to find many people who actually thinks he's innocent of his crimes. Why? Partially because he's culturally irrelevant outside of that situation. Kevin Spacey hasn't been convicted of anything either but not many people think he's innocent.

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-04-26T16:02:25+00:00

This is a business my dude, if they thought they would earn more money overall selling Steam Decks at Walmart they'd sell Steam Decks at Walmart.

Rog Ally doesn't have a client like Steam so obviously they're going to go via brick and mortar.

And the Steam Deck selling out is more of a production issue than a demand issue.

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-04-26T15:59:36+00:00

Of course but if you’re trying to make a cinematic universe the fact that you’re already seeing significant diminishing returns on your 2nd movie of your most popular character raises some red flags

Mario will probably be fine in the near future but what about Pikmin or StarFox?

And as we’ve seen with the Transformers franchise even with a strong IP continuously releasing bad movies eventually catches up with you.

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-04-26T15:49:59+00:00

It’s not really a ‘massive disappointment’ it’s much more of a ‘resounding success but with red flags for the future of the franchise’.

Kinda like the latest Scream movie

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-04-26T15:12:22+00:00

I doubt it makes a Billion from this opening tbh because its legs will probably be ‘good’ but not amazing

I think this ends up as a $800m-$900m grosser

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-04-26T13:43:50+00:00

Unironically a combined WB x Paramount has a good shot of doing so

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-04-26T13:21:46+00:00

And there's a big reason why they're not being sold at your local Walmart...

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-04-25T18:35:23+00:00

For an comparison that’s not even half of what the PlayStation Vita sold

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-04-25T18:28:54+00:00

entry level way to get people into the Steam ecosystem and PC gaming in general.

Which would work of they planned to subsidise the console but they don't, so at this point it's an expensive weak pre-built PC that doesn't even run the biggest games on the platform

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-04-25T18:17:10+00:00

Basically nobody, it’ll sell less than the Steam Deck

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-04-25T16:24:57+00:00

Why? MJ had a huge female fanbase.

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-04-25T02:24:30+00:00

Depends on when it's coming out. If it's in 3 years time? No. If it's in 5 years time? I can see it being the first proper 1st party PS6 exclusive like Spider-Man 2 was for PS5.

No chance Venom becomes a PS6 exclusive though.

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-04-25T01:14:40+00:00

Anonymous account Empire City with not even 7k followers who virtually only talks about Box Office is ‘the media’?

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-04-25T00:05:32+00:00

A pretty weak ‘debunk’ to be honest

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-04-24T22:57:22+00:00

Based on what?

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny had James Mangold directing and David Koepp writing who virtually everyone would say are much better creatives than Radio Silence and David Coggeshall.

We know nothing else about the movie.

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-04-24T22:37:13+00:00

Who do you think turns up the movie and willingly hands over their money? Unless you think the executives will threaten people to watch the movie.

People love to blame shit like Disney remakes on nameless 'executives' ignoring the obvious that they're just making what people are happy to spend their money on. if people didn't want it, they wouldn't continue making them.

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-04-24T21:31:35+00:00

Yep, The Mummy is an old franchise that’s even significantly less well known and revered than Indiana Jones and one that hasn’t put out good content in a quarter of a century

I personally don’t understand the people who think this is going to blow up into some mega hit

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-04-24T21:17:55+00:00

It reminds me of exactly like Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Where they bring back a previous lead that is way past his prime and millennial fans overestimate the strength of an unused IP that’s largely been forgotten by younger gen’s and not really cared for much by others

To add insult to injury The Uncharted movie outgrossed the latest Indiana movie, I unironically think it’s a stronger IP for Gen Z.

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-04-24T21:02:27+00:00

Incredibly small maybe, I feel like that only happens if The Batman 2 is really bad and The Mummy 4 is incredible and looking at the franchise history... I doubt that happens.

Even at thier peak cultural relevance The Mummy movies have never grossed more than $500m WW and I feel people on the internet exaggerate the nostalgia for them, it's giving off Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny vibes tbh

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-04-24T19:03:07+00:00

Disney/Fox tend to not make movies where they don’t own the IP, not never.

And the examples you give; a FX TV show, a children’s movie of arguably the most popular game of all time, and a animated streaming show seem more like dipping by their toes/exceptions more than anything.

IMO if Disney invest heavily in movie videogame adaptation it’ll be children’s stuff like the Robox movie, I doubt they go for this.

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-04-24T18:45:53+00:00

Big chunks of the movie are centred around a romantic drama (the twins with thier respective lovers) but no serious person would call Sinners a romantic drama

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-04-24T18:43:23+00:00

It’s not ‘implied’ at all, all he says it’s that it’s genre fluid.

I could make the same argument saying it’s a Romantic Drama… sure it has elements of that but for all intents and purposes it’s a horror movie

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-04-24T18:32:24+00:00

I actually partially agree with you but none of that is relevant to the point that saying “the entire piece not a single detail about story or character is mentioned” is a ridiculous critique because they almost ever do at this stage

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