Johnny Tran

I don't agree with the posts saying the performance of Shazam 2 means anything to the future of DC films. I don't think this movie has any bearing on the future of DC at all. Everyone is pretty clued in that a reboot is coming. This is a lame duck project. IF it was a great movie then maybe WOM would carry it further but it appears it's average at best given the reviews and so far what we know of audience reception.

What makes you think that The Marvels is going to crush it? Forget the reports of script issues, that could just be rumors. The thing about Captain Marvel is that it was sandwiched between the two biggest superhero blockbusters of all time. Many folks believed it to be essential to the plot. I don't often see people anywhere wax poetic about the actual movie. I don't think an "Avengers bump" can be discounted. Furthermore, Ms. Marvel was one of the least watched an easily forgotten Disney+ shows. I liked the show well enough but numbers are numbers. I don't see anything to suggest that this is a home run.

That doesn't mean anything other than Marvel having a built in fan base that are still rabid for the product despite having their intelligence insulted several times over now. It starts with one film being mediocre and goes from there. It's easy to excuse one mediocre film or even two but I think we are past the grief stage and on to acceptance. Everyone else has clearly moved on. See: Ant-Man 3 with the new big bad Kang struggling to get over $400M. In 2019, Ant-Man 3 would have been close to a billion.

I wouldn't say that. The Batman just last year got close to $800M worldwide in 45 days. Shazam 2 had a lot working against it but probably most of all is that it's one of the lame duck projects on their slate. Don't expect much out of Aquaman 2 either. The Flash could be a surprise hit because it has a lot to do with the actual reset. It's not as much of a lame duck as the others.

I can see why they wanted to make a Shazam sequel at the time but if they weren't going to go the Black Adam route then it really made no sense. The Rock played a part in why both his own and this movie had lackluster buzz to begin with. But that doesn't take the creators off the hook, they could have made a better movie here, All in all, WB was not going to bother marketing it more than they did. They knew there was no point.

Based on what? This and Flash and the new Aquaman have nothing to do with him or the new regime.

Well if you've seen $125M why not post it here for us. It doesn't look like a $150M movie to me

Can it get to $250M-$300M world wide?

How much was the production budget on this? Admittedly, I feel like a lot of people probably feel that this is a lame duck scenario before 'The Flash' comes along and supposedly resets things.

Ant-Man Q is officially the worst MCU box office run since Marvel really became Marvel considering the high hopes for Kang as the new big bad. This is worse than the Eternals run.

....and thus... better...

that's not true... u can actually see the effort on Avatar 2 or Top Gun 2. The VFX or stunts etc are among the best ever.

hmm... what? That was also trash lol

Feige went to the ATM...

man what.. The Batman was just loved by everyone. DC has a lot of hits too

The Double standards are funny as they unfold.

Stop the cap. numbers been great after OW

Read his ideas on what the original plan was and it sounded even worse.

Damn... just noticed that Disney has a $26m for today.. there ain't no way...

Eyeroll. Whatever. Back to the actual discussion.. The snowstorm def affected Sat by a couple mill. This could have easily done $90m+ for the 4-day.. A2 is alive and feasting...

Smh.... i get being funny but the thread is a mess with all the stanning. Some of us just wanna discuss the numbers.

Someone posted 30...not 40...

can someone tag the posts w/ the numbers on them or "recommend" the post on here? These threads are gettn worse by the day...

A2's legs are gonna be longer than Jake Sully's

People laugh but that storm's brutal... Anyway $600m over 6 days. That's pretty good to me..