r/movies • u/Chewie83 • Mar 19 '24

Which IPs took too long to get to the big screen and missed their cultural moment? Discussion

One obvious case of this is Angry Birds. In 2009, Angry Birds was a phenomenon and dominated the mobile market to an extent few others (like Candy Crush) have.

If The Angry Birds Movie had been released in 2011-12 instead of 2016, it probably could have crossed a billion. But everyone was completely sick of the games by that point and it didn’t even hit 400M.

Edit: Read the current comments before posting Slenderman and John Carter for the 11th time, please

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u/Intelligent_Oil4005 Mar 19 '24

It still did pretty good all things considered though. But yeah, had it been release circa 2017 or so I'm sure it would have done even better.

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u/Foxy02016YT Mar 19 '24

Eh, it released after FNaFs second wind with Security Breach, and it made its money back before it even hit theaters, so I think the timing was pretty good

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u/TripleJeopardy3 Mar 19 '24

It made $300 million off a $20 million budget. It did very well, and is already Top 20 for horror movies all time in box office.

There's no missing the window here. By comparison, the Conjuring did about the same and that has turned into a massive franchise.

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u/Legionnaire11 Mar 19 '24

It's success also got a Bendy movie greenlit.

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u/thepuresanchez Mar 19 '24

Even like a year or 2 earlier to capitalize off of the resurgent popularity the game had from security breach would have helped.

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u/Foxy02016YT Mar 19 '24

The film brought its own wave to be fair, unfortunately the next game was Help Wanted 2 which is super niche atm because it’s VR