Mario Helped Break Disney’s 7-Year Box Office Streak
Mario Helped Break Disney’s 7-Year Box Office Streak
by Turbostrider27
19 Comments
mennydrives
I’m pretty sure Disney didn’t really need any help last year.
ProjectPorygon
I mean when ya can see the utter detail, the pure entertainment of the Mario movie, it’s kinda a given. Disney unforntely (and a lot of Hollywood) has prioritized either selling something Purely as a means to sell merch, or make it easily able to be turned into a Netflix/Disney+/etc etc series after the initial film is out. The Mario movie just gave us a great time with tons of references and homages that people genuinely cared about. Sure, merch exists for the movie, but that’s not what it was created for. It was just made to be a good-great movie. And that’s what people want
Dukemon102
I think Disney’s horrendous 2023 would have happened with or without Mario.
DracosKasu
It was kinda expected since Mario is the original character who did beat Mickey Mouse in popularity in the past. Still the movie industry isnt doing well as an whole, they need to rely on better writing and less on overpaid actor and special effects.
KingBroly
I think Barbenheimmer beat Disney all by themselves.
antoni_o_newman
Pretty misleading title. Disney had an awful 2023 and Mario had nothing to do with it. Disney failed this year because the MCU has really started to get bad and they’ve created an expectation that anything Disney isn’t worth going to theatres for because you can just go home and watch it in a month or so. And bad writing.
Tough-Priority-4330
Mario did nothing. Disney seeded the number 1 spot all on their own with their awful movies and excessive budgets.
AgentOfEris
“Luigi wins by doing absolutely nothing”
WorldCupBro
Good!
Tough-Priority-4330
Most profitable movies individually made more money than all of Disney movies combined.
ender2851
disney has been putting out a lot of clunkers. this seemed to be easy hurtle this year even if mario was not a massive hit
Caryslan
Disney might wanna get used to it.
Video game films seem to finally be turning a corner if the Mario and Sonic films are any sign.
Mario is just the start, once we get films based on Zelda, Kirby, Fire Emblem, Donkey Kong, etc, the floodgates are going to open.
Plus, other video game publishers who own popular IPs are likely to join in as well. Video game films have turned the corner, and shows based on video games like Castlevania are doing well.
How long before we see a Pac-Man movie for example?
After a bad year where comic book films became box office poison, studios are going to be looking for something else, and video game adaptions are likely to increase in the coming years and unlike the past, they won’t be throwaway projects.
WhodatBoy55
No, it’s the massive shift in different animation styles. Both Spider-Man’s Universe and Mitchells versus the Machines show the audience is looking for more unique, stylized animation instead of realistic
Likezoinks305
Good
ZombieTem64
Nah, Disney did that all on their own. If anything, Disney helped Mario do so well by sucking so much themselves
scribbyshollow
You mean apart from their terrible movies?
PixieDustFairies
To be fair, it’s Disney’s fault for churning our mostly garbage this year. I did enjoy Elemental, but I wasn’t expecting it to be amazing apart from the VFX, it was a generic rom com.
Another_Road
Disney sucking also helped
Mediocre-Win1898
Disney’s animated films peaked back in the 90s. I don’t know who their target audience is supposed to be today, but it’s definitely not me. The Mario movie was even better than I could have expected. I just hope they don’t mess up with this live action Zelda.
19 Comments
I’m pretty sure Disney didn’t really need any help last year.
I mean when ya can see the utter detail, the pure entertainment of the Mario movie, it’s kinda a given. Disney unforntely (and a lot of Hollywood) has prioritized either selling something Purely as a means to sell merch, or make it easily able to be turned into a Netflix/Disney+/etc etc series after the initial film is out. The Mario movie just gave us a great time with tons of references and homages that people genuinely cared about. Sure, merch exists for the movie, but that’s not what it was created for. It was just made to be a good-great movie. And that’s what people want
I think Disney’s horrendous 2023 would have happened with or without Mario.
It was kinda expected since Mario is the original character who did beat Mickey Mouse in popularity in the past. Still the movie industry isnt doing well as an whole, they need to rely on better writing and less on overpaid actor and special effects.
I think Barbenheimmer beat Disney all by themselves.
Pretty misleading title. Disney had an awful 2023 and Mario had nothing to do with it. Disney failed this year because the MCU has really started to get bad and they’ve created an expectation that anything Disney isn’t worth going to theatres for because you can just go home and watch it in a month or so. And bad writing.
Mario did nothing. Disney seeded the number 1 spot all on their own with their awful movies and excessive budgets.
“Luigi wins by doing absolutely nothing”
Good!
Most profitable movies individually made more money than all of Disney movies combined.
disney has been putting out a lot of clunkers. this seemed to be easy hurtle this year even if mario was not a massive hit
Disney might wanna get used to it.
Video game films seem to finally be turning a corner if the Mario and Sonic films are any sign.
Mario is just the start, once we get films based on Zelda, Kirby, Fire Emblem, Donkey Kong, etc, the floodgates are going to open.
Plus, other video game publishers who own popular IPs are likely to join in as well. Video game films have turned the corner, and shows based on video games like Castlevania are doing well.
How long before we see a Pac-Man movie for example?
After a bad year where comic book films became box office poison, studios are going to be looking for something else, and video game adaptions are likely to increase in the coming years and unlike the past, they won’t be throwaway projects.
No, it’s the massive shift in different animation styles. Both Spider-Man’s Universe and Mitchells versus the Machines show the audience is looking for more unique, stylized animation instead of realistic
Good
Nah, Disney did that all on their own. If anything, Disney helped Mario do so well by sucking so much themselves
You mean apart from their terrible movies?
To be fair, it’s Disney’s fault for churning our mostly garbage this year. I did enjoy Elemental, but I wasn’t expecting it to be amazing apart from the VFX, it was a generic rom com.
Disney sucking also helped
Disney’s animated films peaked back in the 90s. I don’t know who their target audience is supposed to be today, but it’s definitely not me. The Mario movie was even better than I could have expected. I just hope they don’t mess up with this live action Zelda.