To be clear I genuinely think that a lot of the next decade will be people (continuing to) experiment with both:
movie adaptations of video games and primarily TV properties
and
Shared continuity/tie-ins between movies and video games/TV properties
I don’t expect that all such attempts will be successful but I am genuinely a fan of Gunn and excited for the DCU
I feel like the most popular character is… Simba. But my biggest concern is that it’s an original spin-off prequel, not a close adaptation of a beloved Renaissance movie. Dropping off hard seems quite possible so I would just put it in potential.
I do think that they’re got some tricks up their sleeve for thunderbolts in terms of draw and hopefully good movies have restored good will by then but xmas holidays is a detriment to the OW, not an aid!
Before sales predictions have to go a lot off either:
Internet metrics
Or
Polling
With a dash of franchise history/analogy to similar movies.
Given that the initial ranges for DC in the 2020s have ranged from "too high" to "extremely too high" I'm guessing that it's been drawing too much from social stuff where DC overindexes and 2010s performances which were from before the brand was as dead.
The one recent DC where the initial range was very good was BA which seems to have leveraged the star and lack of 2010s era characters to play more GA