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Indie filmmakers are fighting the Marvelfication of video game movies

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Indie filmmakers are fighting the Marvelfication of video game movies
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The biggest question following The Super Mario Bros. Galaxy Movie‘s box-office blowout isn’t whether or not it works as a movie, but how its financial haul will affect the future of video game movies. The movie’s record-breaking success—the biggest Wednesday opening in April of all time!—suggests that the audience for AAA video game adaptations like The Super Mario Bros. Movie ($1.36 billion at the global box office) and A Minecraft Movie ($961 million) don’t mind that th

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