The Super Mario Bros. Movie | Universal/Illumination | April 5, 2023 | Chris Pratt is Mario, Charlie Day is Luigi, Anya Taylor-Joy is Peach | The most profitable movie of 2023

[Morieris]

47 minutes ago, WittyUsername said:

It’ll be funny if these movies end up resurrecting the Mario vs. Sonic fan rivalry. 

 

Oh, it already has on Twitter.

[robertman2]

1 hour ago, WittyUsername said:

It’ll be funny if these movies end up resurrecting the Mario vs. Sonic fan rivalry. 

lol sonic fans have been fighting that for a while still

[CoolioD1]

i was always more of a sonic kid. partly because we never really had nintendo consoles growing up so i didn't play a ton of mario and sonic easily had better cartoons. now i think i can recognise that mario def has better games. and this gonna gross more than sonic 1 and 2 combined.

[Krissykins]

 

[Hatebox]

Looks annoying but 7 year old me would have probably loved it.

 

I notice they did the 'haunting piano melody' but I couldn't recognise the theme from any game.

[Last Man Standing]

So any reason why people are expecting it to do double Sonic and Detective Pikachu?

[BadOlCatSylvester]

1 minute ago, Last Man Standing said:

So any reason why people are expecting it to do double Sonic and Detective Pikachu?

The voice cast made me think they were going for a weird, meta tone like Pikachu, a movie which financially wasn't all that. The trailer flipped that expectation upside down as it looks like an earnest epic adventure. If it reviews well it can easily be a smash hit, so doubling Pikachu is possible.

[XXR vs XXR]

14 minutes ago, Last Man Standing said:

So any reason why people are expecting it to do double Sonic and Detective Pikachu?

Mario nostalgia + full animation instead of a hybrid. Basically, it doesn’t look/feel like a “video game movie” and those other 2 still did.

Edited October 7, 2022 by Wolverpool XXR

[Last Man Standing]

3 hours ago, Wolverpool XXR said:

Mario nostalgia + full animation instead of a hybrid. Basically, it doesn’t look/feel like a “video game movie” and those other 2 still did.

It's possible that being full animation will be more attractive to people, it looks like a videogame movie to the extent the other two do to me though.

[Grebacio]

3 hours ago, Wolverpool XXR said:

Mario nostalgia + full animation instead of a hybrid. Basically, it doesn’t look/feel like a “video game movie” and those other 2 still did.

Also, Illumination movies have agressive marketing campaign, only 4 of their 12 movies grossed less than 250M, and Mario has a wayyyyy better realease date than Pikachu

[JWR]

3 minutes ago, Grebacio said:

Also, Illumination movies have agressive marketing campaign, only 4 of their 12 movies grossed less than 250M, and Mario has a wayyyyy better realease date than Pikachu

 

1. Spring break + Easter Sunday = Very promising OW

 

2. Fully animated instead of being a live action hybrid

 

3. Virtually no competition for families until The Little Mermaid in May

[Eric the IF]

 

[Cmasterclay]

Yeah, I haven't gone back to read the reaction in the thread yet so maybe I'm in a minority, but this looks very good and is going to be a mammoth hit.

 

120/350

[YM!]

8 hours ago, Wolverpool XXR said:

Mario nostalgia + full animation instead of a hybrid. Basically, it doesn’t look/feel like a “video game movie” and those other 2 still did.

Illumination is also a brand name now.

[Eric the IF]

[Galactic Specter]

I think this will land in Minions territory and do 350+ DOM, cross a billion and be another feather in the cap for Illumination. This isn't a Detective Pikachu situation, the Mario movie looks to be a much more marketable animated film with a straightforward adventure premise set in a world familiar to anyone with a the faintest knowledge of Mario. It's gonna be a huge crowd pleaser just like Illumination's other films. 

Edited October 7, 2022 by Galactic Specter

[Eric the IF]

 

[Eric the IF]

 

[kayumanggi]

I think this is going to be huge. Maybe $375 million domestic and $1 billion worldwide. Crazy, I know, but I think it's possible.

[cookie]

Going with 110/355, reviews/later marketing sight unseen

Edited October 8, 2022 by cookie