With Super Mario Bros and Barbie being the only movies to cross $1 billion at the box office this year, we should expect Hollywood to dig deep into the childhood nostalgia category in the coming years.

We already have adult-themed Barney and Polly Pocket movies in the works. The recent Transformers movie set up a reboot of the GI Joe movie franchise.

All we need is for Nintendo to announce big screen Legend of Zelda and Metroid movies to take this trend over the top.

@carnage4life I haven't watched the Super Mario movie, but 'Barbie' movie's success is not an effect of nostalgia, but of making a decent movie with more depth of theme than is usual for Hollywood (even if that's not saying a lot and it's white feminism all the way down). Making a bet on nostalgia based on that is not understanding anything.
@Illuminatus @carnage4life “Not understanding anything” is how Hollywood execs operate, tho.