#box-office-success

#box-office-success

Video game adaptations are undergoing an interesting rift right now. In the realm of television, we're seeing the rise of high-budget, prestige-y adaptations like The Last of Us and , trying to replicate the hard-hitting emotion and complex ideologies depicted in their source games. In movies, on the other hand, we're seeing the exact opposite. Movies like The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Sonic the Hedgehog took classic video game characters and transformed them into crowd-pleasing broad comedies with all-star casts.

The buried Roger Corman production was the stuff of pop culture lore for decades before anyone saw it. Tim Story's two titles from the 2000s were critical disappointments and poor representations of some of the comics' most iconic arcs.

Bruce Springsteen has wrapped up the most successful tour of his career, pulling in a whopping $729.7 million and selling 4.9 million tickets.

DC Studios' recent Superman feature has become this year's third-biggest box-office debut in the US, showing theatergoers might not be tired of superheroes as expected.

When you're looking at movies, especially post pandemic, post 2020, a billion dollars just doesn't really happen as much anymore. To see 'Lilo & Stitch' getting very, very close to that, it really just shows that people, families are willing to go out and see movies, especially if they are IP, familiar property and they feel they're guaranteed to have a good time.

Ryan Coogler cemented his position in filmmaking with a stunning musical-horror hybrid that critiques cultural appropriation, becoming the most financially successful original blockbuster in 15 years.

"The initial inspiration came from Ryan [Coogler] telling me about the people in the story-who they are, what they want, what they wish for..."