My blazing hot take is video game movies don't do that well because people like the act of playing a video game and not the specific characters really.
As @ScottMendelson has pointed out, movies that use video game imagery or mechanics can do well, but video game adaptations are a long string of losses.
"Detective Pikachu" did ok but I don't think they were quite pleased with $433m worldwide on a $150m budget. Also sidenote, I glanced at the plot summary and it seemed to be a "how is this even legal" ripoff of "Zootopia".
An outright kids' movie is probably a better bet than the wannabe four-quadrant blockbusters of "Warcraft", "Detective Pikachu", "Tomb Raider", etc.
Oh the "Sonic" movie did well. Easy to forget because you know, the world was ending.
At least the "Mario" movie isn't using the cheapskate "they're coming into our world, and have to team up with a cop played by Actor We Can Get" premise.
There's a very real divide between four-quadrant movies like "Shang-Chi" and genuine children's movies like uh the new Addams Family franchise, as much as people conflate them as "movies that aren't for adults".
IDK, anime also seem to be able to handle serialization without just falling apart sobbing after six episodes, maybe they're just better at a lot of things.
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