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I don't think it will do that bad. James Gunn has the support of the critics and the comic book nerd community, so it will have a positive media coverage instead of the scrutiny MOS and BVS faced. David Zaslav is apparently investing a ton of money in the 2024-2025 theatrical slate to make sure they're successful so WB becomes more valuable to sell, so Superman will likely have a massive marketing campaign. Thanks to inflation, Superman only needs around 75% of Man Of Steel's attendance to reach the same $291 million at the domestic box office. In Latin America, DC exploded in popularity post-MOS. And on top of that, James Gunn is a really good and creative filmmaker, so there's no way this movie is awful like The Flash or generic, disposable garbage like Blue Beetle. Aquaman 2 making $434 million worldwide despite everything it faced goes to show there's still an audience for the popular comic book characters. The only way I see Superman doing less than $400m is if Gunn and WB go for the wrong tone (a movie way too unserious, with childish humour) but I doubt that's the case because his movies have a lot of heart. I'm more concerned about the other projects in the DCU, right now I'm confident Superman will be successful.

If Ultraman is a villain in the movie, James Gunn would have purposefully misled fans into believing he isn't. While technically Gunn wouldn't have lied, he knows damn well how fans would read it, and we all know what his intentions are with that post.

The movie would have been so much better had they kept that storyline. Why change it?

Godzilla 2014 had horrible legs, King of the Monsters flopped, GVK and Skull Island did well enough but didn't have an exceptionally positive reception from critics and audiences, and this new one is 54% rotten and doesn't have any new hook, yet the franchise is in a healthy state at the box office. Goes to show how unpredictable audiences are.

These movies would have done great in 2016 when people were high on nostalgia, while the 2016 film would probably do better today with audiences accepting fresh takes and being driven more by quality.

I suspect there will be a battle between Reeves and Gunn to see which version of Batman will stay. If Superman is successful enough for them to have complete confidence in the future of the DCU I think they’ll end the Battinson universe. That’s just what I think they’ll do.

Another new low for comic book movies. Last year we had Shazam 2, Blue Beetle and The Marvels hitting new lows for their franchises. The next cbms (Deadpool 3, Venom 3, Kraven) seem much stronger, so it will be interesting to see how they perform against that trend.

The tv series has the opportunity to better show the day to day student life in Hogwarts which were mostly left out of the movies because of the runtime. There was something very enjoyable to me about that aspect of the books, and it’s the one thing it would be worth to see a new adaptation in my opinion (though probably for younger viewers because when I tried to re-read the books as an adult I didn’t like them at all.)

Quibi did this. When you flipped your phone, the video would automatically adjust to vertical or horizontal, and the episodes would be shot the way it would work both ways. I thought that was actually an awesome feature. I guess that’s what AT&T considered doing for HBO Max. Of course, from an artistic point of view, that’s absurd, but so is the Netflix feature of increasing the running speed.

The Variety article implies that Zaslav intends to start negotiations about selling or merging WBD in April, and also suggests that he’s trying to have a successful 2024 at the box office so he can get a better deal. If this is true, it explains why Mickey 17 was moved, even if it isn’t terrible: at a $150m cost, they don’t believe in its commercial performance, and may think it will hurt the perception of their year at the box office.

Even the most optimistic members here knew this movie had no chance, Sony execs can’t be that stupid

It’s probably being helped by the lack of other horror movies, currently or on the horizon. I don’t even know what’s the next horror movie to get a wide release, there’s nothing already being promoted for this year that looks exciting. Horror fans might just check out Night Swim.

I’ve seen a few posts on social media hyping Madame Web as if it’s a “so bad it’s good” classic (even though reviews say it isn’t, that it is just boringly terrible). I wonder if this will help the numbers a bit. I didn’t see this much activity for last year’s cbm flops (including the most surprising one, The Marvels), so I was expecting people to simply ignore Madame Web’s existence.

This is like the fourth famous person in recent months to claim or imply that the new management of DC Films has lied to them or to the public.