Maybe domestically. Xbox has virtually no penetration in a lot of international markets, even back in the 360 days.I've always believed that a Halo movie in 2007, coinciding with the release of 3 would have become one of the biggest movies of all time.
Microsoft fumbled that franchise HARD when it came to expanding beyond games.
I think a Halo film could penetrate the markets Xbox as a console couldn't. It doesn't matter though, Microsoft never took the shot with it, so we'll never know how it would have gone.Maybe domestically. Xbox has virtually no penetration in a lot of international markets, even back in the 360 days.
I feel like, if they really wanted to, Zelda is the kind of thing that could more than carry a "Lord of the Rings" style anthology film series. It's the only way I could see Zelda working, because one 90-120 minute feature really isn't enough for Hyrule and its characters to breathe, let alone tell a more in-depth story, too.I think the issue with Zelda is unlike Mario it's had a lot of peaks and valleys in its popularity over the years. It's never been unpopular, per se, but it feels more like it has a big zeitgeist moment every decade (LOZ, OOT, TP, BOTW), and then surrounding games that are successful but less iconic and recognizable. Regardless, 1 billion or otherwise, we can be assured they're working on something Zelda right now after the Mario movie's success.
I think the most likely route is they adapt Zelda to live-action and bill it as their big prestige live action TV series, especially after the success of TLOU on HBO.I feel like, if they really wanted to, Zelda is the kind of thing that could more than carry a "Lord of the Rings" style anthology film series. It's the only way I could see Zelda working, because one 90-120 minute feature really isn't enough for Hyrule and its characters to breathe, let alone tell a more in-depth story, too.
The only problem is if I'm not sure if Hollywood somehow needs more convincing that animated media could do that and would try to insist on live action + CG.
which a new game could help with
they also fumbled hard when it came to the games too lolI've always believed that a Halo movie in 2007, coinciding with the release of 3 would have become one of the biggest movies of all time.
Microsoft fumbled that franchise HARD when it came to expanding beyond games.
To get this all ages audience the Mario Movie has, I feel like the source material needs to be as straight forward as possible, referencing the most played Pokémon games. I mean I can see how you can tell a great story in a Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Film, but I don‘t think that it would be much more successful than Detective Pikachu.There are plenty of ideas for Pokemon films you could gain from the source material and probably turn into a successful film. You could do a Pokemon Ranger film, or a Pokemon Mystery Dungeon film with kids turning into Pokemon, or something like Legends Arceus set in the past as an origin story.
Which is why it was so weird they decided on the first attempt to do a Detective Pikachu film.
I really don't see DK doing 500m anymore. In my experience DK is simply not a character and brand that kids talk about that much compared to in 90s. If Detective Pikachu and Sonic weren't able to get that high, I doubt DK could. Barring a new game maybe 300-400ish if Nintendo really push it.If Mario does a billion I would guess DK does about half of that. Avengers did 1.5 billion and Winter Soldier did around 700. Being a spin-off of a super popular movie will help but it has to build itself as its own brand too. If a new DK game comes out between now and the movie though that might change the calculus.
To get this all ages audience the Mario Movie has, I feel like the source material needs to be as straight forward as possible, referencing the most played Pokémon games. I mean I can see how you can tell a great story in a Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Film, but I don‘t think that it would be much more successful than Detective Pikachu.
Wasn’t thinking about that but I mean yeah. I feel like a Pokémon Movie needs some sort of catching, fighting and traveling.You uh, know that means a Pokémon go movie, right? That's still at like, 80 million monthly players.