When are we going to get an actual movie of FIM?

Since Equestria girls is getting a hit and miss from the fans, I thought this would be an interesting conversation. Do you think we should get an actual movie of Friendship Is magic? Animated, with everyone being themselves(ponies of course).
 
Of course,it would be a while before something like this can happen though.

Oh yeah, I would definitely want an FiM movie. I mean, I liked Equestria Girls and all, but a real FiM movie should’ve happened.

I’m sure we will get one eventually if it’s profitable for Hasbro… Then again, Hasbro makes silly choices sometimes.
 
Who knows, it’s a mystery.

I doubted at a MLP movie, after i see Equestria Girls, it’s very likely we’ll get another one.

I’m guessing series finale.

@Itsthinking  
Which finale? The series finale or post finale after it gets brought back by serious demand?

@Rarewarefan  
I suppose something similar to Futurama could happen.

@Itsthinking  
I don’t think the series finale being a movie would be a good choice, the end will become easily forgettable by people and some will think it’s “filler”, like some do with Equestria Girls.

Best bet for a movie would be a one off adventure involving the mane cast. I’m all for the Viking Caribou of the Northern Tundra.

@Background Pony  
you gotta be kidding

I’ve been wanting a FIM movie for two years. The closest we have gotten was A Canterlot Wedding which I think could have been released as a great movie if it were a half hour longer.
 
Maybe near the end of season 4 for the 2014 summer movie season? One thing is for sure: if a FIM movie is going to be made we’ll know about it months in advance.

Has an actual movie of the show been considered by anyone who has worked on the show?

Nothing can stop the smooze

I’d love to see an actual honest-to-god FiM movie. Naturally, that means we won’t get it.
 
My original thought on this, prior to M.M.C. bucking everything up, was it would be a great way to wrap up Gen4, with some sort of awesome action sequence setup, then ending with Twilight finally leaving Ponyville for good to go wherever, and all the ponies going their separate ways. The lesson being: “Times change. Ponies come and go. But even though you’re apart, the moments you shared together were real and helped make you who you are now; your friends will always be your friends.”

EQG destroyed any hopes I had that they might do a half-decent feature-length piece for FiM. Might as well stick to episode-length stories if THAT clusterfuck is what happens when they try to extend it.

@Itsthinking  
Can you explain this to me? I haven’t seen Futurama to get what your saying.

Petition for this anyone?

@Background Pony  
Those are mostly useless, but I get the feeling that FiM might break the whole “TV cartoons don’t make money off of movies” fear that has been happening since the 90s.
 
Maybe as the series finale or close towards it.

Well considering that Equestria Girls was successful at the box office, I’m assuming the chances of us getting another movie is pretty good.

@Ninoyiya  
Yeah, wouldn’t doubt that a FiM movie that gets a wide release is on the table.

@Ninoyiya
 
Then they decide on Equestria Girls 2: Electric Bugaloo.
 
In all honesty, after the mediocrity of the first one, I have no doubts on this one if and when it comes out.
 
I’m not hating on the humans or anything, though. I’m hating on story, pace, characters being interchangeable. I mean, come ON. We’ve had Ego Trip and Mask of the Phantasm, for crying out loud. What’s stopping Hasbro from going the same way as those two movies? They were excellent!

@SpikeSpiegel  
What’s stopping them? A period in the late 90s/early 2000s where a ton of cartoons all got theatrically released movies that all flopped horribly.
 
The fact that it was clearly never intended to have a theatrical release shows that it was just a test to see if people would see a cartoon movie. Like I said, FiM will probably get a movie of its own, theatrical or not.

@Itsthinking
 
Straight-to-DVD’s always been a good market since DC started finding success there.

@SpikeSpiegel  
EqG was always intended to be that anyway. Its run was more of a promo than anything.

Honestly, though, what’s the deal with putting a female protagonist going on a journey full of peril and wonder which results in her emerging a stronger, better person through loss and realization? Why can’t we have that in Pony form with Twilight Sparkle?
 
Hell, why can’t we have that with female protagonists in GENERAL? The only thing I see with those inherent characteristics in the majority of fiction in fantasy and the like are in those where the protagonist is MALE. What happened to putting a girl in those situations?