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I just have to say that it's actually really impressive how close the domestic and international gross is together. Like yeah, international gross will inevitably earn more than domestic, but I'm actually surprised that it's not that far apart right now.
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Kari Kamiya said:
I just have to say that it's actually really impressive how close the domestic and international gross is together. Like yeah, international gross will inevitably earn more than domestic, but I'm actually surprised that it's not that far apart right now.
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Yeah, movies like these usually make twice as much money overseas compared to domestic earnings, it seems Mario didn't do too well in China, i wonder how it will fare in Japan.
 
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Neet Tokusatsu said:
Yeah, movies like these usually make twice as much money overseas compared to domestic earnings, it seems Mario didn't do too well in China, i wonder how it will fare in Japan.
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iirc Contra was more THE game for the NES rather than SMB1, and China didn't really get on the Mario wagon until that weird N64 semi-console thing
sorta like how they were more into the Star Wars prequels over the OG trilogy
 
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Archeops said:
The Mouse has a handful of video game IPs they could potentially tap into if it wanted to ape Illumination’s and Nintendo’s success (
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It's current year Disney. The movie would be filled with gays and people in various shades of brown, awful animation, boring story, talentless actors etc. and they would lose hundreds of millions of dollars.
 
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xXx: State of the Union said:
Compared to Mario, nobody gives a shit about Crash.

I mean they want to make a Crash movie, that's great. But if they're expecting Mario dollars whooooo boy.
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At least Sonic, for better or for worse, is still surprisingly relevant. Crash, alongside Twisted Metal, Tomb Raider and Silent Hill are nothing more than relics of the past from the 90s and 2000s. I doubt that a Crash Bandicoot movie would even work in a current year, unless if you are someone like Caddicarus (aka: Benedict Cumberbatch with a lumberjack beard) who would dickride the franchise because of the name written in big bold shiny letters.
 
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TVBForever said:
if you are someone like Caddicarus (aka: Benedict Cumberbatch with a lumberjack beard) who would dickride the franchise because of the name written in big bold shiny letters.
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TBF to him, Crash 3: Warped was the first piece of vidya he ever played, so it makes a fair (but still sad) amount of sense why he dick-rides it so much.
 
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Yeah it's really no comparison between the two mascots.
Mario rivaled and surpassed Mickey decades ago for one the most recognized characters on Earth
Crash was one of many attempts at a mascot for the PlayStation
 
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Kari Kamiya said:
Is it even possible to make a Crash movie decent? They'd have better luck with Spyro and Mega Man.
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I mean, games like Twisanity and Crash 4 have lots of fully voiced cutscenes, it could work


But lets be real here, the main side effect coming from Mario's success is that we are going to see a lot of half-baked videogame mascot movies in the next few years, all of them trying to get the same comercial success with characters far less popular than Mario.

Hell i think even Nintendo themselves won't be able to make another movie that successful unless is an spinoff of the Mario movie, something like Luigi's Mansion or Donkey Kong Country.
 
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Vyse Inglebard said:
Don't know about Mega Man, but they already tried Spyro.
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Actually, there was an attempt to make a Mega Man animated movie from 20th Century Fox, but it didn't work and was in a turnaround following Disney's purchase of Fox, resulting Netflix to buy the rights for a potential Mega Man movie and show.

There was also a potential animated Klonoa movie in the works from 2016, but was also cancelled in 2019.
 
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