Its almost as if video game movies that are true to their franchises are actually good.
With Chris Pratt leading the charge as the beloved plumber and member of the infamous pair, The Super Mario Bros., Nintendo and Illumination's hit has seen impressive record box office numbers and is expected to exceed $1 Billion.
Wow, to think we've finally reached a moment in history where a video game movie is accurate to its source material and out-did its previous theatrical blunder released in the 80's.
The movie has made close to $700 million in sales at this point, reported by Deadline, and the international market is continuing to add to those numbers. Mario is king of the box office in 26 countries currently.
Miyamoto Shigeru, Mario's creator and Nintendo legend, has continued his adventure across many lands and kingdoms on a very highly spotlighted press tour celebrating this great IP- if not one of the greatest video game IPs of all time.
Though movies based on video games aren't terribly rare, there has been a long history of Hollywood's cringe inducing attempts to turn video games (and anime, cough cough Dragonball Evolution), into live action hits. Movies like Poke'mon's Detective Pikachu, and Sonic The Hedgehog in recent years, has shown a mastery of blending live action with CGI and top quality talent to deliver cinematic successes. Its no wonder a studio such as Illumination (Despicable Me, Minions, Sing, and more) and Nintendo was able to create a box office 1 UP.
Wow, to think we've finally reached a moment in history where a video game movie is accurate to its source material and out-did its previous theatrical blunder released in the 80's.
The movie has made close to $700 million in sales at this point, reported by Deadline, and the international market is continuing to add to those numbers. Mario is king of the box office in 26 countries currently.
Miyamoto Shigeru, Mario's creator and Nintendo legend, has continued his adventure across many lands and kingdoms on a very highly spotlighted press tour celebrating this great IP- if not one of the greatest video game IPs of all time.
Though movies based on video games aren't terribly rare, there has been a long history of Hollywood's cringe inducing attempts to turn video games (and anime, cough cough Dragonball Evolution), into live action hits. Movies like Poke'mon's Detective Pikachu, and Sonic The Hedgehog in recent years, has shown a mastery of blending live action with CGI and top quality talent to deliver cinematic successes. Its no wonder a studio such as Illumination (Despicable Me, Minions, Sing, and more) and Nintendo was able to create a box office 1 UP.
This gives hope there could be plenty more great adaptations to come.
The ending of the movie teases a possible sequel, and if Sonic The Hedgehog's recent successes and this movie's means anything, gamers could be in for a treat of massive- and accurate- video game blockbusters to come.
The ending of the movie teases a possible sequel, and if Sonic The Hedgehog's recent successes and this movie's means anything, gamers could be in for a treat of massive- and accurate- video game blockbusters to come.
Finally.
