MovieMan89

What if no future MCU release does less than JL DOM?

There's a small chance JL becomes the least attended live action movie with Batman. Probably needs to do at least 230 to beat Batman and Robin. Coupled with LEGO Batman not really lighting up the box office and this has been a rough year for the Bat.

Anyone know where BvS was at around 100k votes?

Which adjusts to like 150 and it didn't have 3d. It would be like JL making 165 this weekend instead of 90.

I did have the thought when watching JL yesterday that it felt like it was made with 7-11 year olds in mind.

Shazam really shouldn't be happening either.

But...but...but...what about YEAHYUH???

Will be entertaining if Coco breaks out and beast JL now.

If it drops much harsher than 50% next weekend it is royally fucked.

Good Xmas through New Years holds are going to be crucial for JL having any kind of good multi. There's really no other weekends it's likely to have good holds. Should drop at least 50% next weekend based on comparative openers, and the following weekend will likely be 60%+.

Quality over Snydity.

JL is probably having the worst CBM OW ever in relation to the expectations of what it should be doing. Superman Returns is the only other one I can think of that comes close on that front.

Hopefully never. I honestly think an SS sequel is a massive waste of time and resources for WB with the state of the franchise. They need to be making course corrections now, and SS2 won't do that in any way for them. Even if it turned out good, it does almost nothing to fix the DCEU on the whole. They need like a solid 5 years of other films that will help the foundation and structure of the main franchise before they even think of revisiting something more spin offy like SS, and by then who will care about an SS sequel? Might as well reboot it or something.

Fixed.

AquaMan has a director that excelled with the visual and action aspect of his only other big budget film, and a writer that is far from proven. The more I think about it, the more obvious it seems it will just be a continuation of the Snyder formula. Lots of visual flair and spectacle with the underwater stuff, but thin story and characters.

Wan has really only proven himself in horror though. F7 was fine but nothing really amazing, there were many other factors that led to it being huge besides quality.The writer of AM also only has Gangster Squad to his credit, so not exactly highly promising. I don't see AM being something exceptional, even if it's decent.

I think Mary Poppins can go 400+ honestly, depending on reception. It has the potential for WOM to run rampant with families from Xmas through all of January. Honestly, maybe it even shocks everyone and wins 2018 DOM if both IW and JW2 do a bit below expectations.

Sure, if it opens to like 15m. Then again, at the rate DCEU is going...

Dark Phoenix will go one of two ways. If it's another disappointing/poor effort like Apocalypse, it's going to bomb hard DOM and probably limp past 100. Or it will be well received and perform like First Class (modest opening, solid legs), leading to a similar total as Apocalypse. OS should hit 300 or so regardless though, so it has some insurance.

If the extended edition had been the theatrical version people would have seen just how low a multi can go.

We should leave Snyder out of the blame though. This is really all Whedon's fault.

And Snyder fucked them both.

Her presence in the film coming right off of such a massive triumph with her solo film surely had to add some interest in JL though. I can't imagine it had zero effect at all. The character/portrayal is the big cultural phenomenon of the year.

So...if JL opens sub 100, what the hell was it going to do if WW hadn't made any course corrections in the franchise? 60m?

Because I feel so sorry for him at this point I can't even drag him for making such shitty films, I will admit that Watchmen showed some promise from Snyder in the genre. Flawed, but potential was there if he could have learned to get a better grasp on good character and plot development. Instead he went the opposite direction...