You're confused? About what? The movie did less than $500M worldwide. There's literally dozens of articles asking "what went wrong". People who say "it's just Ant-Man" are being disingenuous about what the movie was supposed to accomplish. 2023 just began, it's not gonna finish #2. But First of all, the movie cost in the neighborhood of $200M to make and that's before advertising. It was supposed to setup Kang as the next big bad of the entire next phase for the MCU. The fact that this movie with all the hype put behind it, made less than the original Ant-Man is mindboggling and it's due to poor writing and fatigue.
As far as Super Mario goes, the INDUSTRY tracking was low on it. Nevermind what the people on here said. The people within the industry who track the box office didn't think it was going to make anywhere close to what it's doing.
And no, comic book movies aren't all the same but Ant-Man Quantumania followed the same formulaic approach that a lot of comic book movies have been about over the past decade. It followed all of the same steps, there was nothing "different" about it.
I legit don't even know where to begin with your posts in here.
"'Quantumania' did less than $500 mill world wide"
You do realize, out of the hundreds of movies released in 2022, only
9 did over $500 mill world wide, right?
"It's not going to finish #2"
It's
currently #2, which is when you cats are claiming people are tired of these movies. Right now, today.
"2023 has just begun"
In 3 days we'll be 5 months into the year. Unless you mean the "official movie season". If so, why aren't you taking that into account for "Quantumania"?
"'Quantumania' didn't even do as much as 'Puss & Boots'!"
Neither has any movie in 2023
before "Mario". "Puss & Boots" was in the top 10 for 2022 box office so I'm not even sure what you're trying to say here.
Rest of what you said is just....
Talking about how "Quantumania" is formulaic while praising "Mario Bros.", which has had the exact same plot the last 40 years.
Talking about how "Mario Bros." box office tracking was low when:
'Super Mario Bros Movie' Set To Open To $75M+ Over Five Days
deadline.com
2023 may have a new box office king on its hands. The latest tracking is out for The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which insiders now say could end up grossing over $225 million over the span of its extended weekend. Opening on Wednesday ahead of the Easter weekend, a new tracking report from...
comicbook.com
So no, it was never tracking low. It was tracking what would be considered good for a video game adaptation, then it broke all records. It was estimated to do around $90 mill....which was $20 mill
more than "Sonic 2", which did $400 mill.
Again "Sonic 2" did $400 mill, and ain't been relevant in video games for close to 20 years. Nobody in their right mind thought "Mario" would flop.
Fred.