Blue Beetle | August 18, 2023 | WB/DC | Director - Angel Manuel Soto | First DC Universe Character!

[dudalb]

I am still  surpriased that people who have been on these boards for a long time still don't get  some of the bsic facts of the film business. ;like how just getting a movie into theaters can add a lot of the cost of a movie.

[ChipDerby]

Again, it was far more valuable to WB/DC to release this to theaters than to bury it on streaming. Maybe if they had Netflix's reach we would've seen it go straight there, but they don't, so it didn't.

 

And again, this whole "it needs to double its budget" "it needs to make 2.5x its budget" garbage is all garbage. It's how the general community can get a gauge on how a movie did, but nobody besides internal executives know the actual costs and profits. Do you all really think movies cost "$150 mil"? Ahh how convenient! A round number!

[Dragoncaine]

Damn, this movie is still at a 92% verified RT with 1,000 votes? It must've been super borderline for an A- CS, pretty unfortunate it landed on a B+ (haven't seen the movie yet)

[El Gato]

3 hours ago, dudalb said:

Uh, it cost tens of millions of dollars just to get a movie  into theaters. That is a major reason why some movies get sent straigh to Video or streaming; The studiios think it is going to be a sure  fire bomb, and don't want to  add to the red ink by throwing away money on a doomed film.

It would have lost way more on streaming! 90M (original price tag) is a lot for streaming movie 

[WittyUsername]

I think the only streaming services that really have the pull to do big movie releases are Netflix and maybe Amazon Prime. 

[The GOAT]

The Score was actually pretty great. Loved the Retro 80s beat.

 

[HummingLemon]

Yeah, this was a pretty good, fun movie honestly.

[dudalb]

On 8/21/2023 at 7:07 PM, WittyUsername said:

I think the only streaming services that really have the pull to do big movie releases are Netflix and maybe Amazon Prime. 

We might add Apple to the list with "Killers Of The FLower Moon".

Edited August 24, 2023 by dudalb

[SpiderByte]

Blaming the hurricane is actually much more embarrassing than just saying "yeah we couldn't do promo due to the strike so that hurt the box Office"

[The GOAT]

3 hours ago, SpiderByte said:

Blaming the hurricane is actually much more embarrassing than just saying "yeah we couldn't do promo due to the strike so that hurt the box Office"

should blame DC fans for never showing up. 

[WorkingonaName]

3 hours ago, The GOAT said:

should blame DC fans for never showing up. 

1 more person then the average Blue beetle screening. 

[El Gato]

3 hours ago, The GOAT said:

should blame DC fans for never showing up. 

DC fans do show up, there just doesn’t seem to be a lot of us. Either that or Batman is the only draw DC has 

[Belakor]

The new Superman movie will need to be a Dark Knight movie event to make 500m or more at this point, the DC brand is as burned as you can get.

[SpiderByte]

48 minutes ago, Belakor said:

The new Superman movie will need to be a Dark Knight movie event to make 500m or more at this point, the DC brand is as burned as you can get.

I still say don't worry about Superman Legacy.

 

Definitely worry about The Authority 

[Napoleon]

7 hours ago, The GOAT said:

should blame DC fans for never showing up. 

This meme implies that DC fans have a strong online presence, but at least for their recent flops, I didn't see much online buzz for them. The last theatrical DC movie that was always trending was The Batman.

[ListenHunnyUrOver]

2 hours ago, Belakor said:

The new Superman movie will need to be a Dark Knight movie event to make 500m or more at this point, the DC brand is as burned as you can get.

Could Joker 2 and The Batman 2 do some damage control even if they are elseworlds?

[Spidey Freak]

49 minutes ago, ListenHunnyUrOver said:

Could Joker 2 and The Batman 2 do some damage control even if they are elseworlds?

 

No, seeing how The Batman goodwill didn't translate to the shared universe films.

[TheDude391]

7 hours ago, SpiderByte said:

Definitely worry about The Authority 

I genuinely don't see that one ever getting made tbh.

[ChipDerby]

I mean, he's tying The Authority directly in to his Superman film. So unless you expect his Superman film to flop and them immediately cancelling the rest of the slate, yeah I guess it won't get made.

 

 

[FunkMiller]

9 hours ago, Napoleon said:

This meme implies that DC fans have a strong online presence, but at least for their recent flops, I didn't see much online buzz for them. The last theatrical DC movie that was always trending was The Batman.

Why… it’s almost as if the vast majority of DC fans still support DC, but not anything to do with the DCEU (which this movie very obviously was part of).