Still more on video games looking poised to overtake comics in adaptation to the screen, and even board games
Kidscreen's got more coverage of what analysts predict is the direction Hollywood will be taking, with video games as opposed to comic books:
Next, per Indie Wire (via the Daily Wire), it appears even board games like Monopoly are going to be adapted to the silver screen, along with the video games:
Hollywood is just making themselves look laughably silly with where they dig to get material for movies and TV programs. And when it turns out to be PC, then it just isn't art.
To track what it calls “popularity score,” Ampere uses a metric that’s based on average global consumer search volumes on the internet for both film and TV projects. The new report assessed the top 10 most popular newly-released projects in 2023 and found that only one comic book adaptation (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3) made the list—a significant decline from 2021, when comic book adaptations took up six spots on this ranking, and well below the four spots the category occupied in 2022.Interesting how unnamed studios are described as avoiding risks, when they've taken the risk of alienating audiences with political correctness, which the article predictably won't comment on. If they're going to hammer audiences over the head with the kind of propaganda seen in the 4th Thor, why do they think audiences will tune out? Simultaneously, is that a good thing if studios are "risk-averse"? What matters is story merit foremost, and without it, they can't be surprised if audiences are discouraged in the end. They've also got to avoid making the alarming mistakes made in casting, like when Warner Brothers cast the disgraced Ezra Miller as the Flash, Amber Heard as Mera in Aquaman, and look how that turned out at the box office. Plus, when the screenplays are as horrid as the former film's was, you can't be surprised nobody would care.
Meanwhile, the 2020s have so far seen the tide shift towards video game IPs expanding into films and series, with films like Detective Pikachu (2019) and Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) getting the momentum rolling. The report theorizes that audience receptiveness to this genre was buoyed by a surge in gaming activity during the pandemic, which might explain the boost in numbers—from Uncharted (2022) racking up US$407 million to last year’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023, pictured) entering the billion-dollar club. The small screen has also seen the emergence of successful kids shows adapted from video games, including Angry Birds: Summer Madness and Sonic Prime (which generated more than 82 million hours of watchtime on Netflix in the first half of 2023).
It appears that 2021 was the last year to record a clear-cut dominance of comic book franchises. That was the last time a superhero flick crossed US$1 billion at the box office (Spider-Man: No Way Home), while Marvel Studios’ TV spinoffs continued to attract high engagement and Disney+ series WandaVision reached a peak popularity score that remains “unmatched.”
Last year was particularly tough for most comic book adaptations, with films like The Marvels, The Flash and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom facing slow box office returns.
“Risk-averse studios have [already] begun a smooth transition into the gaming realm,” says commissioning researcher Illia Abusaitov. “These adaptations have already demonstrated their capacity to match or even exceed the success of comic adaptations.”
Next, per Indie Wire (via the Daily Wire), it appears even board games like Monopoly are going to be adapted to the silver screen, along with the video games:
Margot Robbie is sticking with toys and games after the success of “Barbie.”Considering how woke the Barbie movie was, yet regrettably became such a massive box office success, that's why it wouldn't be shocking if a Monopoly movie wound up the same way, and Hasbro might not lift a finger in defense of the classic creation in their care, any more than Mattel did when Barbie was humiliated. And what would a Monopoly movie be about anyway? The mustachioed millionaire mascot going on a trip around the country at the throw of the dice, reading all the Chance and Community Chest cards along the way? Seriously, whatever the producers have in mind is hard to get excited about regardless of how they make it, because ultimately, they're just scraping the bottom of the barrel for pop culture products to adapt into something that doesn't make people think for the right reasons, let alone provide decent escapism. Also note it looks like the Sims game owned by Electronic Arts is being adapted, and frankly, I can't care less about yet another video game adaptation there either.
Robbie, through her LuckyChap production banner, will develop an adaption of Hasbro’s classic board game, “Monopoly.” The announcement came Wednesday morning during Lionsgate’s CinemaCon 2024 presentation.
Producing “Monopoly” alongside Robbie are her partners Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara. The upcoming “Monopoly” movie will also be produced by Hasbro Entertainment for Lionsgate, which extended its development rights to the board game adaptation after its December 2023 purchase of eOne. Hasbro had originally intended to develop a “Monopoly” movie that would star Kevin Hart.
[...] The news comes shortly after LuckyChap announced a “Sims” movie on the heels of the blockbuster “Barbie” success and Oscar nominations.
[...] Hasbro Entertainment has more than 30 active projects in development. Other upcoming titles include the animated “Transformers One” directed by Josh Cooley and starring Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, and Jon Hamm, as well as a live-action “Dungeons & Dragons” series for Paramount+.
Hollywood is just making themselves look laughably silly with where they dig to get material for movies and TV programs. And when it turns out to be PC, then it just isn't art.
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