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The Boys series finale was playing in theatres last night before coming to Prime, and even got some 4DX screenings.

I haven’t seen any box office posts about it on this sub, and am curious how it did compared to the Stranger Things finale back in December, which made $25 million. Obviously it didn’t make as much, but did it even do $5 million? Why isn’t this sub talking about it?

Did a lot of people, even hardcore fans, skip it because it was too short at just one hour? The final episode of Stranger Things was the length of a movie at over two hours, so it was probably a lot more worth it.

Did it really do that poorly?

There have been some IPs that got adapted into films only for it to fail horribly, often due to not living up to the source material.

There have also been a few adaptations that failed, only for it to be attempted a second time later to greater success.

The most obvious example would be Mario. The 1993 live-action movie was a total disaster and bombed. It took Nintendo 30 years to try again, and when they finally did the Illumination Mario movie was a massive hit.

To a lesser extent, the Godzilla movie from 1998 wasn’t very well received as Hollywood’s first attempt at the IP, but then the 2014 movie did a lot better both critically and commercially.

The Fantastic Four also had a failed adaptation with the 2015 movie, which was massively panned and bombed, doing even worse than the 2005 movie and its sequel. The 2025 movie wasn’t a smash hit, but it still made a profit and was significantly better and laid the groundwork for the role these character will play in Avengers (although I guess this would count as the third chance)

What are some other IPs that deserve another chance?

The following is a list of the top 15 highest grossing movies based in TV shows, not counting Mission Impossible and Star Trek since those would take up too many spots.

1. The Simpsons Movie: $536 million

2. Sex and the City: $418 million

3. The Flintstones: $358 million

4. The Fugitive: $353 million

5. 22 Jump Street: $331 million

6. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water: $325 million

7. The Last Airbender: $319 million

8. Sex and the City 2: $290 million

9. Mr Peabody and Sherman: $275 million

10. Scooby-Doo: $275 million

11. Charlie’s Angels: $264 million

12. Borat: $262 million

13. Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle: $259 million

14. Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie: $251 million

15. Dark Shadows: $245 million

Where do you think the Mandalorian & Grogu will end up on this list? Can it get #1 if the reviews are good, and if not, at least get into the top 3?

What other potential movies could enter this list? The Simpsons 2 comes out next year and is an obvious one, and if it is a success, I can see a Family Guy movie coming in 2029 for the show’s 30th anniversary provided Seth MacFarlane agrees to it.

South Park also has its 30th anniversary next year, and I could see a second movie maybe happening since it probably wouldn’t take too long to produce with the way they make episodes of the show in only six days, though I’m not sure it would make over $200 million worldwide.

Other than that, If Mandalorian & Grogu ends up being a decent success, I can see them maybe doing an Ahsoka movie as well after season 2 of the show comes out to conclude the story instead of doing a season 3.

What do you think?

2019 is the year with the most movies that crossed the $1 billion mark with a total of 9 (Captain Marvel, Endgame, Aladdin, Toy Story 4, Far From Home, the Lion King, Joker, Frozen 2, and the Rise of Skywalker) and it seems extremely unlikely to ever be beaten in the near future.

The #2 spot is the tie of 5 movies between 2015 (Furious 7, Age of Ultron, Minions, Jurassic World, and the Force Awakens) and 2018 (Black Panther, Infinity War, Jurassic World 2, Incredibles 2, and Aquaman)

It looks like Super Mario Galaxy will make it to $1 billion after all, but just barely. Michael seems like it also has a good chance with the legs it has been having, and we will have a more clear idea after this weekend.

Assuming both of them make it to $1 billion, the remaining movies that have any sort of chance are Toy Story 5, Minions 3, Moana, the Odyssey, Spider-Man 4, and Doomsday. I really doubt Mandalorian & Grogu, Dune 3, or Jumanji 3 will do it.

Overall, how plausible is it for 6 movies to hit the billion mark this year and finally beat the #2 spot?

The Super Mario Bros. Movie is the highest grossing video game adaptation with $1.36 billion worldwide. This makes sense since Mario is the best selling video game franchise. It’s looking more and more unlikely that it will ever be beaten.

Minecraft arguably had the best chance since, while Mario is the best selling video game franchise, Minecraft is the best selling individual video game. But the Minecraft movie still failed to beat it and its sequel is probably gonna make less.

Even Super Mario Galaxy has seen a notable drop, showing there was definitely a novelty factor involved. The third Mario movie, as well as any potential spin-offs, will probably drop more.

Since those two both failed, I really can’t see anything else that has a chance.

Zelda comes out next year, but it isn’t nearly as big of an IP as Mario. Even if it’s genuinely great, like a fantasy epic on the level of Lord of the Rings, I think it caps out at Minecraft numbers. None of Nintendo’s other IPs, can replicate the success of Mario either. I don’t even think the hypothetical Smash Bros crossover movie would get that high with how Mario’s own solo sequel dropped from the first.

There’s also the Call of Duty movie coming, but I doubt that gets anywhere close to $1 billion. COD doesn’t really have anything that can stand out from other military movies, so it wouldn’t really work as well as something like Mario and Minecraft which both have their own unique worlds and recognizable characters.

The Sonic movies seem to be growing their audience too slowly. I also doubt they ever get a movie that makes $1 billion.

What do you think? Is this record sealed forever? Is there something you think can beat it?

I meant to post this yesterday for both throwback Tuesday and Revenge of the Fifth, but forgot and don’t want to wait 6 more days. So I’m doing it today for Revenge of the Sixth instead.

Before the Phantom Menace came out, the hype was insane. First Star Wars movie in 16 years and we’d get to see the beginning of the backstory that led to the original trilogy and the origin of Darth Vader.

The movie made $924 million and was the second highest grossing movie ever at the time of its release, but its reception was disappointing among most people for reasons like the script, dialogue, and Jar Jar Binks.

A lot of the hype was killed and Attack of the Clones, despite being a little better, but still having a lot of problems like the romance plot, dropped to $653 million and it was the first time a Star Wars movie released and wasn’t the highest grossing movie of the year.

However, Revenge of the Sith still had a lot of hype even though the first two had mixed reception, mainly since this would be the movie where we’d finally see Anakin became Vader and, at the time, people thought it would be the last Star Wars movie ever.

It also had much better reception than the first two prequels and ended up making $850 million, more than Attack of the Clones but less than the Phantom Menace.

It does make me wonder, if Episode I and II had been better written and didn’t have their most glaring issues, and had much better reception than they did in real life as a result, allowing for stronger momentum, how much bigger could Revenge of the Sith have ended up being?

Could it have been the third movie to make $1 billion at the time and maybe beat LOTR: Return of the King to be the second highest grossing movie ever behind Titanic? How close to Titanic’s $1.8 billion gross could it have gotten?

This is a chain of multiple matchups between different characters from the MCU and Star Wars. Who wins each of these fights?

Round 1: Iron Man (Mark 85 suit) vs Darth Vader

Round 2: Captain America (Steve Rogers) vs Obi-Wan Kenobi (Episode III)

Round 3: Black Widow and Hawkeye vs Han Solo and Leia

Round 4: Star-Lord vs Din Djarin

Round 5: Captain America (Sam Wilson) and Winter Soldier vs Boba Fett and Jango Fett

Round 6: War Machine vs General Grievous

Round 7: Captain Marvel vs Rey

Round 8: Loki vs Count Dooku

Round 9: Drax vs Chewbacca

Round 10: Spider-Man (Iron Spider suit) vs Luke Skywalker (Episode VI)

Round 11: Hulk vs the Zillo Beast

Round 12: Black Panther vs Mace Windu

Round 13: Deadpool and Wolverine vs Darth Maul and Savage Opress (Deadpool has his pistols and adamantium katanas)

Round 14: Scarlet Witch vs Ahsoka Tano (Ahsoka show)

Round 15: Doctor Strange vs Qui-Gon Jin

Round 16: Black Panther (T’Challa) vs Mace Windu

Round 17: Vision vs Yoda

Round 18: Shang-Chi (with rings) vs Kylo Ren

Round 19: The Milano (piloted by Star-Lord and Rocket) vs the Millennium Falcon (Piloted by Han Solo and Chewbacca) in space battle

Round 20: Thor vs Palpatine

Bonus: Thanos (with just the power and space stones) and his army from Endgame attack Coruscant during the Clone Wars to get an infinity stone that is being held by the Republic. How does the battle turn out?

Who wins each round?

Most people predicted that the Super Mario Galaxy Movie would be the highest grossing animated movie of 2026, but now with its negative reception and notable drop from the first Mario movie, will Toy Story 5 most likely be taking the spot instead?

On one hand, Toy Story 5 will probably be the much better movie of the two, and will likely be critically acclaimed like the other four and get a score in the 90’s on Rotten Tomatoes. It has also been longer since the last movie compared to Mario (7 years vs 3 years).

On the other hand, Toy Story 4 already stayed flat from 3 despite 9 years of inflation and only barely passed $1 billion, similar to the range Galaxy will likely finish at. It also has more competition with Minions & Monsters coming only 12 days later and Moana 3 weeks later.

However, since its debut in 2019, maybe Disney+ has allowed the first four Toy Story movies to grow in popularity with today’s children who couldn’t have seen them when they originally came out, and this will allow Toy Story 5 to get that big bump like Inside Out 2 and Zootopia 2 got.

What do you think? Will it easily be taking the #1 spot from Mario, or could it be close?