Shazam! | April 5, 2019 | 21st Most Profitable Film of 2019

[Jonwo]

New Line Cinema's big budget films with the exception of The Hobbit trilogy and Jack the Giant Slayer have never been more than $120m so it wouldn't be too surprising if Shazam has a $100m budget.

[AdamKendall]

They just played it during the football game, but it was cut down to less than 30 seconds.  Hell, I don't even know if it was 20 seconds.  Said 'see full trailer' online.

Edited January 20, 2019 by AdamKendall

[AdamKendall]

It's hilarious to see the reaction on twitter.  Despite the fact that popularity wise (outside Tony Stark or Black Panther films)  ... DC films are just as successful at the box office  ... but you'd swear no one goes to these films because so many people online do nothing but bitch and moan about the smallest things involving them.

 

Just so you all know ... Shazam is a bust and terrible and WB should sell DC to Disney.  Why would twitter lie? 

[DMan7]

Just now, AdamKendall said:

It's hilarious to see the reaction on twitter.  Despite the fact that popularity wise (outside Tony Stark or Black Panther films)  ... DC films are just as successful at the box office  ... but you'd swear no one goes to these films because so many people online do nothing but bitch and moan about the smallest things involving them.

 

Just so you all know ... Shazam is a bust and terrible and WB should sell DC to Disney.  Why would twitter lie? 

So you're saying the reactions on twitter are negative? 

[AdamKendall]

6 minutes ago, DMan7 said:

So you're saying the reactions on twitter are negative? 

When you search Shazam ... it's 50/50 at best. 

 

It's not shocking, even if people spend nearly 5 billion over 6 films worldwide, bashing DC properties online gets you likes.  

Edited January 20, 2019 by AdamKendall

[Elessar]

The muscle suit looks so stupid but i guess that's why they were going for it. I like Levy, loved Chuck, a jolly good mix of comedy and drama. I doubt Shazam will be as good, though. Might check it out on streaming...

[Scubasteve716]

Reactions on Twitter are mostly positive from what I’ve seen 

[DAR]

I haven’t read a ton of Shazam but I do know he works best when he’s kind of corny. He’s not called the Big Red Cheese for nothing 

[TMP]

22 minutes ago, AdamKendall said:

It's hilarious to see the reaction on twitter.  Despite the fact that popularity wise (outside Tony Stark or Black Panther films)  ... DC films are just as successful at the box office  ... but you'd swear no one goes to these films because so many people online do nothing but bitch and moan about the smallest things involving them.

 

Just so you all know ... Shazam is a bust and terrible and WB should sell DC to Disney.  Why would twitter lie? 

I can't see any negative tweets when I searched Shazam up

[Mr Impossible]

Seems like another win for the DCEU and WB. 

[AdamKendall]

6 minutes ago, TMP said:

I can't see any negative tweets when I searched Shazam up

The reactions on twitter immediately after the game promo aired were not very good ... lots of same old DC crap.  (of course we heard that with Aquaman stuff as well and well ... 1+ billion later, who cares) It's gotten better in the last 10 minutes (guessing more of those from people watching the full version online)

 

Edited January 20, 2019 by AdamKendall

[Lucasmessi12]

1 hour ago, AdamKendall said:

When you search Shazam ... it's 50/50 at best. 

 

It's not shocking, even if people spend nearly 5 billion over 6 films worldwide, bashing DC properties online gets you likes.  

Maybe your twitter shows reactions from different people based on your historic or something, here I did not even see 1 negative reaction (I'm not exaggerating).

 

Box office pro twitter index.

https://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/26037/shazam!

Edited January 20, 2019 by Lucasmessi12

[Lucasmessi12]

 

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Edited January 20, 2019 by Lucasmessi12

[Zakiyyah6]

DC fans tend to pay attention to the negative. I saw plently of negative stuff on Twitter about Captain Marvel. There will always be negative responses, it won't ever be 100% positive. I think Shazam will be a big hit. 

[LouisianaArkansasGeorgia]

5 hours ago, Mr Impossible said:

Seems like another win for the DCEU and WB. 

Exactly. Like someone else said above, he is called The Big Red Cheese for a reason. This will continue Wonder Woman's and Aquaman's accomplishments in cementing the DCEU as a feasible IP that can actually produce well-liked films.

[TombRaider]

...and maybe they'll realize gp is tired of batman and superman and prefer seeing other less used superheroes

[Zakiyyah6]

People aren't anymore tired of Batman and Superman than they are of Spider-Man. People just didn't like the grim and gritty virtually humorless, nasty and mopey versions of those characters. You put Batman and Superman in a films as entertaining as Wonder Woman and Aquaman and you'd have yourself two successful franchises. 

[Heat Vision]

1 hour ago, Zakiyyah6 said:

People aren't anymore tired of Batman and Superman than they are of Spider-Man. People just didn't like the grim and gritty virtually humorless, nasty and mopey versions of those characters. You put Batman and Superman in a films as entertaining as Wonder Woman and Aquaman and you'd have yourself two successful franchises. 

Unfortunately it seems that WB is sour on Superman.

[Warmaster506]

Because they keep making shit movies about Superman.  Make a good one and watch the money roll in. 

[Zakiyyah6]

3 minutes ago, Heat Vision said:

Unfortunately it seems that WB is sour on Superman.

Yes because they kept trying to make him dark and gritty for some reason. And this is coming from someone who liked Man of Steel. The fact is Man of Steel was the wrong movie to make. Yes, I'm Monday Morning Quarterbacking this bitch. But even during Man of Steel's development I thought going a darker route could be very risky but I trusted the filmmakers after seeing the trailers and the like. I still like the film but much less so these days. I wish that we had gotten an action packed Superman that was actually fun and uplifting and not so mopey. That's water under the bridge now I guess. I'll have to suffer through WB blaming the character again and not the stupid decision to turn him into a somber mute like in Superman Returns and Man of Steel after that. Maybe Shazam will ironically be what Superman should have been on the big screen. 

Edited January 21, 2019 by Zakiyyah6