Success of a Netflix film is based on viewership, a metric that is not comparable to box-office dollars, but the company has had at least one best picture contender at the Academy Awards since 2019.

Firstly, it is worth exploring exactly how and why Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom became a box office flop. As already alluded to, the DCEU movies of 2023 suffered from being classed as dead on arrival.

The Sonic the Hedgehog franchise is still going strong after the debut film in 2020, and The Super Mario Bros. Movie was a major hit in 2023, grossing $1.360 billion at the box office.

Unfortunately, it was pretty messy and bombed at the box office. It was a new story set in that universe and although it had some good ideas, it was confined to a PG-13 rating which didn’t jive ...