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3 hours ago, ChipDerby said:
Wait until Ultraman is revealed and everyone calls Gunn a liar 😂
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.
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9 hours ago, PlatnumRoyce said:
The Flash-forward sequence? The film's final act clearly was at some point set around killing Peter Parker and every villain line is ADRd.
The movie would have been so much better had they kept that storyline. Why change it?
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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.
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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.
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2 hours ago, WittyUsername said:
Problem is that they’ll be taking a big risk by having two concurrent Batman film series going side by side, and that’s not counting the Todd Phillips Joker movies. This is precisely the kind of thing that led to WB canceling that George Miller Justice League movie back in the day. They’re essentially competing with themselves. They’ll need to tread very carefully.
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.
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20 minutes ago, Krissykins said:
Madame Web -61%, at least not a Morbius level drop. $77m worldwide I’m guessing it’ll finish at $95m
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.
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12 hours ago, WittyUsername said:
God, that Harry Potter reboot thing still sounds extremely stupid. Who is it even supposed to be for? The films are easily accessible for young fans to watch. Who are the actors even supposed to be?
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.)
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16 hours ago, TestPattern said:
What an absolutely stupid merger this was
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.
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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.
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11 hours ago, John Marston said:
a revealing article. Sony actually thought this was going to start a franchise right up to the last minute lol
Even the most optimistic members here knew this movie had no chance, Sony execs can’t be that stupid
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On 2/18/2024 at 8:56 AM, kayumanggi said:
I know this doesn't say much because the weekend numbers have been low, but the drops have been good for a "terrible" movie.
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.
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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.
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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.
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44 minutes ago, SpiderByte said:
Apparently the budget on this is only 80 million so there's actually a chance this could break even.
18 minutes ago, A Star is Delayed said:This is going to totally collapse after Presidents Day and it's already floundering overseas (France) so I would be shocked if this gets anywhere near $200M. I hope it doesn't... that would just encourage Sony to keep churning out more cynical cash grabs like this.
This is probably why Sony continues to make these movies. With a $80 million budget, it doesn't take much for profitability. Until last year (with Blue Beetle and Shazam 2) the lowest grossing live action Marvel or DC adaptation in the past decade was Fantastic Four I think, with $167 million worldwide. That's already enough for a $75-80 million budgeted movie to break even theatrically. Add in digital rental, TV and streaming deals, and you get easy profit by making cheap, awful Spider-man villain films. Of course, is possible that Madame Web does even worse than Blue Beetle's $130 million worldwide, but even then, the movie is likely to break even in a year. Considering the chance some of those could end up being a big hit like Venom, it's not a bad strategy for Sony. But with the decline of the superhero genre, it doesn't seem like it will be sustainable.
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I think this can be big. While the previous Fantastic Four movies didn't do much at the box office, I think the team is perceived as iconic, and also important in the Marvel canon. If it looks good in the trailers and gets an over 90% RT score I bet this will be very successful.
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2 hours ago, Issac Newton said:
France - 41,035 Admits OD (Morbius - 76,801)
The Marvel - 49,629
Blue Beetle - 46,631
Shazam 2 - 41,900
Ratings are 1.6⭐ Visitor & 1.4⭐ Press
Yikes at The Marvels doing so much less than Morbius. The total lack of interest in that movie will always be shocking to me.
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21 minutes ago, AJG said:
Sony have been stuck into a corner with their Marvel characters. They mostly have half developed villains and their friends and families. The El Muerto movie they scrapped was based on a character that had only appeared in 2 issues of a comic book. Madam Web and the characters presented wouldn't classify as popular characters or characters known to most Spidey fans. Sony don't have characters with enough foundation, story, or cultural cache to justify making movies about them in the same conveyor belt process Marvel and DC can. I think Sony are aware because apart from this years batch of movies that have already been shot and produced, they haven't been any sign of development on any other of the announced movies they had planned (what happened to Hypno Hustler???).
The concept behind Morbius and Madame Web are interesting, and having those movies build to a team up with Venom and Vulture could have been exciting. The idea behind this shared universe is good, the problem is the execution. It doesn't even seem like Sony is trying to make something good.
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Sony is making these movies with no effort, they don't even give them a decent budget (the Venom movies cost $110 million each, Morbius had a $75m budget, and Madame Web also cost less than $100m), and are likely tricking movie stars into thinking they're entering the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which until recently was always lucrative and well received. I guess this is a good strategy for Sony because even Morbius may have been profitable with such a low budget.
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Between this and Moana 2, looks like studios learned nothing from the 2023 they've had. You would think they would take better care of their IP now, but I guess not.
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That’s a really good trailer to be honest
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1 hour ago, BadOlCatSylvester said:
Remember when Batman v Superman was seen as a special event because of just how bad its word of mouth was? Good times. Now we get a sea of BvS'es all year round. The deterioration of Hollywood this decade will be one for the history books.
That's karma for how people treated BVS as a failure when it actually was a commercial success. Exhibitors should have been more supportive of that phase of the DCEU. I don't feel sorry for movie theaters at all. While we're seeing so many franchise movies getting similar critical reception and cinemascore, none of them are selling the number of tickets DC was selling back then.
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I hope she's well and this is her comeback, we the gays miss her every single day 😭
Pop culture has not been the same since Wendy's been off the air. We need her opinion on the Nicki Minaj meltdown over Megan Thee Stallion's diss track...
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Superman | July 11, 2025 | James Gunn writing and directing | David Corenswet is Clark, Rachel Brosnahan is Lois
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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.