Of course it's gonna bomb. People need to look at this super empty April... If WBD believed Mickey would be liked by general audience it would premiere this week. Literally every single movie has great reactions from Cinema Con. I mean... What were people expecting to hear?
Not sure I buy that number. Usually it was official budget + 10-20% but that really became official budget + 25-60% over last two years so who knows. However, filming was quite short. Just 3 months or so.
Because they're selling the studio. The same thing WBD's been doing for months. Or MGM when they gave PTA 70M to make Licorice Pizza and then sold the studio to Amazon.
Batgirls tested in 50s to 60s, those other two movies always in 60s.
October 25, November 15 or December 25 would have made sense but end of January don't bring any confidence and Warners know that.
But that doesn't make much sense for me. Most of that crowd became Top Gun fans when they were young rebels. Or at least in their heads. Fir them Maverick was like some time machine.