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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6818337" data-attributes="member: 22779">But, what it means is that Marvel is in no chance of going belly up.  People tend to forget that Marvel, by the end of the 90's, was gasping its last breath.  They'd sold off their biggest names to other movie studios, and they were still barely keeping the lights on.  Marvel, for all intents and purposes, was dead.The movies and the MCU has meant that Marvel, at least for some time, doesn't have to rely on comic book sales to keep the lights on.  It gives them all sorts of breathing room.  A successful (and by successful, I mean, a movie that actually makes money, not top of the charts, but, makes enough money) D&D movie means a new revenue stream and gives Hasbro that much more of a reason to treat D&D as an important brand, instead of simply deciding to shelve the hobby for a decade or two, which no one wants.I think the big trick here is to recognize success as success.  A movie doesn't have to be Transformers or Star Wars to be a success.  I know they say that Battleship bombed, but, I'm kinda confused.  It made 300 million at the box office for a 200 million dollar movie.  Isn't that a success?  And it was successful enough that other board game movies have been greenlit and there have been rumblings of a Battleship 2.  Even the idea of the writer being from Wrath of the Titans, which was considered a success (and for some reason, despite not being that much cheaper than Battleship and making largely the same money :/) so, I'm not sure what the problem is.BTW, what happened to that Russell Crowe thing - Chainmail?  Is that still in the works?</blockquote>

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