https://variety.com/2019/film/news/...ional-box-office-avengers-endgame-1203220343/
Pretty damn decent I'd say. Hopefully things continue to go well.
Pretty damn decent I'd say. Hopefully things continue to go well.
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Pokémon Detective Pikachu has now made $287.4 million worldwide (UP: Will cross $400 million)
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Yeah :/ for a low budget movie, these numbers would be great...but I feel like for what they must have spent on VFX alone, this movie needs to do much better. I want it to do better, because it was a great fun movie.
Oddly enough, of the 3 movies Ive seen this summer, Avengers, John Wick, and Pikachu, I wanna see Pikachu again the most. There's definitely heavy competition in movies right now so glad it seems to be doing well. Can't wait for the blu ray release.
To be fair it looks great for a low budget movie, it's oozing with charm and cg's pretty great.
I was admittedly on the team that figured the movie would be higher out of the gate, but it's kind of apples to oranges in this case. For example, Mickey Mouse is the flagship and most treasured Disney IP, but it wouldn't outgross the Avengers in a film. Certain IP is better suited for general film audiences than others, and consumers have a long standing bias against video game movies because a long series of poor offerings have trained them to do so.
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It's surpassed the OG Tomb Raider film which ended at $274.7 million, that was the previous highest ever for a game movie right?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lara_Croft:_Tomb_Raider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lara_Croft:_Tomb_Raider
True and the art style and premise doesn't line with the games in general. I hope it does a lot more since the movie is suprisingly great. Like really great, my favorite this year after Endgame
I'm not saying Detective Pikachu is low budget. I'm saying that in Hollywood now, grossing $287 million would be fine for a lower budget movie, but for something like Detective Pikachu, which probably had a heavy budget just in terms of VFX alone, $287 doesn't sound that great. Not to mention the marketing budget.
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Oh okay, Warcraft is the #1 grosser at $433.5 million according to this list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_based_on_video_games
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_based_on_video_games
But why a thread for this specific number? It'll break 300M and probably 400M too. So it's not like this matters much.
While it'll end up profiting a bit, comparing to other videogame adaptations doesn't seem too good when the IP is bigger, this movie's budget is 150M$ and it seems to be underperforming.
While it'll end up profiting a bit, comparing to other videogame adaptations doesn't seem too good when the IP is bigger, this movie's budget is 150M$ and it seems to be underperforming.
I think the Endgame conversation lasted a bit longer than they anticipated.
I think it would be more successful if wasn't that.
I think it would be more successful if wasn't that.
Ok, I'm not knowledgeable on box office sales so that went way over my head. Kinda disappointing if you say is true, movie is great and the IP is biggest out there for gaming.
They shouldn't have released this so close to the Avengers. This would have been better as a June release.
Where does this 450 million figure come from? I asked SweetNicole last time but didn't get a response.
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I think so too. The movie's only a week and a half old in the west. There's still time I feel.
Plus domestically Pikachu is at nearly 100 mil
Warcraft didn't even crack 50.
We'll have to wait and see how Aladdin fairs next week. It could cut Detective Pikachu's legs even further, but I don't think that's a guarantee.
WB tried to counterprogram it with Shazam and Pikachu and ended up hurting both movies.
That's 150M (budget) x 3. What people use for the break even point considering marketing budget and cuts to their Box Office results by the cinema chains, taxes, etc.
tho I think Pikachu is closer to 2.5x, so 380M I guess already makes some profit. If it's truly 450M, then oof.
How is it fine when the movie is not even guaranteed to make profit? best case scenario is a sequel that will have a significantly less budget than this one. Worst case scenario is no sequel, and Pokemon big action movies are dead for at least a few years.
A strong international run, especially in China, saved Warcraft from being a total bomb. It could have lost a lot more money.
Nintendo is not even credited in this movie. At least they do not appear on the splash screen at the beginning.
Studios get way less money from China than other countries tho, so while the box office number looks better because of it, the studio didn't even consider making more Warcraft.
Performing similarly to Shazam, I think?
If you haven't seen any of those, please do so, they're fun :)
If you haven't seen any of those, please do so, they're fun :)
I don't think this movie has to be really profitable in terms of box office for it to be good for the Pokémon company. It's such a big property across so many mediums (toys, cards, video games, anime) that you can't really measure the effect a movie like this has on audiences. There could be families buying a whole pile of Pokémon stuff for the next year because of it.
Warcraft was partially funded by the Chinese government right? I heard something like that and it had tons of advertising with beer companies and grocery stores?
I am not ready to hear a full dialogue Mario... :S
The Angry Birds movie was a moderate success, but I guess we'll have to wait until Illumination's Mario movie for the first hugely successful video game adaptation blockbuster at the box office. Pikachu could still do fine for the budget, but I'm sure Legendary and WB were hoping for better
That's.. Lower than I would have expected.
I'd laugh if the new mortal kombat movie ends up making more lol
I'd laugh if the new mortal kombat movie ends up making more lol
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