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Soundwave on 17 July 2016
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Chris Hu said:
Soundwave said:

Ironically I think Sony's best chance at staying relevant in the movie business might be Nintendo, lol. If they could land a deal with Nintendo to get IP like Mario, Smash, Zelda, and Pokemon for movie deals, they would be a huge get for them. 

I don't really understand why movies need such a bloated budget anyway, make a film for $110 million instead, it's still a big enough budget. 

Can't see that happening the most likely canditate for Nintendo to let their IP's being used in movies would be Disney.  Fox buying Sony Pictures/Columbia is much more likely, they already own part of Sony's most successful franchise since they own the home video rights to the Bond movies.

I don't think Nintendo will do a deal with Disney. It would be problematic because Nintendo has already sold their theme park rights to Universal. 

Which was the right move, because Universal is giving Nintendo tons of exposure/space, the Nintendo attraction at Universal Studios Japan is apparently going to be even bigger than the Harry Potter one and feature multiple Nintendo IP, I doubt Disney could have matched that.