Weekend Numbers (actuals) | Aug 18 - 20 | 25.0M BLUE BEETLE | 21.1M BARBIE

[Joyous Legion]

> A bunch of DC movies flop

> “Marvels is doomed”

> 

[MightyDargon]

Dead people knew Blue Beetle would flop. It was the most predictable thing in the world.

(waits for WB to do something stupid like punting Dune and NOT AQUAMAN as a response)

[baumer]

@The GOAT I'm curious as to why you found my post funny

[Issac Newton]

 

 

Edited August 19, 2023 by Issac Newton

[The GOAT]

2 minutes ago, baumer said:

@The GOAT I'm curious as to why you found my post funny

Canadian actors feel the same as American actors. In the same way that we combine both our BOs 🥴

[filmlover]

I mean, at the end of the day, is anyone really shocked that Blue Beetle is posting blah numbers? That it isn't opening with like a sub-$15M launch feels like a minor miracle of sorts given how much the studio seemed to be leaving it for dead even before the strikes hobbled movie marketing.

[Kon]

17 minutes ago, MightyDargon said:

Wow Blue Beetle's brilliant strategy of saying anyone who thinks the trailers look cliched is racist didn't work, superhero movies are absolutely doomed as a result.

I didn't read the directors or actors accusing people from racism for not liking Blue Beetle trailer.

 

I mean, I wouldn't be surprised the studios would use that strategy, but I don't remember seen actors or director making these accusations this time.

[ringedmortality]

7 minutes ago, baumer said:

@The GOAT I'm curious as to why you found my post funny

Cause it was objectively funny 

[WorkingonaName]

Joker was the royals of CBMS. 

[vale9001]

i think 2023 will be a more significative year for super hero movies.

Until last year they still were the biggest movies of the year so even if with less money than pre pandemic the conversation was like "but it still the genre people love more to see on a big screen!. There are not alternatives, comedies for women are now a platform thing and historical dramas are for netflix too. People want the bum bum bum on a big screen".

 

Now barbie 1.5B, Opp 900-1B and no super hero movie in the global top 3 this year. 

This is what will really have an impact on the production for the next years and when hollywood will greenlight less super hero movies. The blue beatles and the shazams will dissapear. 

Edited August 19, 2023 by vale9001

[eeetooki]

40 minutes ago, tonytr87 said:

To be honest they really should do this. We have time to convince Nolan. Bale is still relatively young. 

Literally will go watch it in the theatres 10 times.

[Deathlife]

BBs performance is unfortunate.

 

Latino representation is a very complicated discussion because Latino as a descriptor is a group of people from disparate cultures and literally different races that are being grouped together. I have Puerto-Rican relatives and they apparently have little in common with people from Mexico beyond the fact they all speak the same language. Seriously, Latino includes people like Charlie Sheen to Ricky Martin to Jennifer Lopez to Cardi B to Laz Alonso, it's a very large and frankly completely different people that are being grouped together. It's basically like attempting to group all French speaking people in the US into one group regardless of race or nationality, it really doesn't work. 

 

This is something that Hollywood will have to keep in mind when trying to tap into the Latino demographic. Representation is great and I will always support it but Hollywood needs to pick its battles. Blue Beetle to me looks more like it's focused on Mexican culture (I haven't seen it yet though, so this is a little speculative on my part) which should have been stated more prominently in its marketing (like Coco) IMO.

[TheFlatLannister]

7 hours ago, Eric Reyes said:

This might ruffle some feathers, but I'm not even sure if Deadpool 3 is safe from underperforming. It really does feel like even the hardcore fans are sick of the whole entire genre at this point.

I disagree. MoM made $450M OW last year with no China and no confirmed major cameo. If Deadpool is good, the sky is the ceiling for it. 

[Deathlife]

30 minutes ago, MightyDargon said:

Wow Blue Beetle's brilliant strategy of saying anyone who thinks the trailers look cliched is racist didn't work, superhero movies are absolutely doomed as a result.

This never happened.

[baumer]

11 minutes ago, The GOAT said:

Canadian actors feel the same as American actors. In the same way that we combine both our BOs 🥴

 

But they're not

[vale9001]

Oh this seems very important 

 

 

[MightyDargon]

8 minutes ago, Kon said:

I didn't read the directors or actors accusing people from racism for not liking Blue Beetle trailer.

 

I mean, I wouldn't be surprised the studios would use that strategy, but I don't remember seen actors or director making these accusations this time.

Plenty of people online were doing so, not sure if they were studio plants or not.

[Deathlife]

48 minutes ago, baumer said:

Well I can chime in a little bit on this representation thing. It's not quite the same as ethnicity but I'm definitely pretty patriotic not just when it comes to movies but sports and music and so on.  I love seeing Canadians do well. Before I knew how much I adored Ryan Reynolds I wanted to see his movies because he was Canadian same as Jim Carrey or Mike Myers, Keanu Reeves, Michael j fox, Rachel Mcadams and so on. So like I said it's not an ethnic or race thing but everybody in one way or another I think enjoy seeing someone of your own kind doing well.

 

 

100% agree.

 

Everyone wants to see their own succeed. 

[PlatnumRoyce]

1 hour ago, YM! said:

Tbh the biggest mistake for Phase 4

I mean, Phase 4 never really existed. There's neither a production reason nor an in universe narrative reason to split the post endgame MCU films there. It's all about marketing narratives for new films. 

 

[WorkingonaName]

I made sure to see Wog Boys Forever for my people.