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Post by havenless on May 3, 2019 14:11:50 GMT
Aquaman’s hype was coming off his appearance in the teamup movie, and involved plot elements from said movie. BvS made way more than Man of Steel, Suicide Squad way more than Shazam. Wonder Woman 2 will make good money, Batman too, but nothing else will make close to what The Suicide Squad does. Even Venom was promised as part of a larger connected universe. Deadpool and Deadpool 2 openly integrated X-Men. Wonder Woman preceded her teamup movie by mere months. What movies since Avengers were truly stand alone? Shazam, Hellboy reboot, TMNT reboot, Dredd reboot. Pennies to the dollar of what could be. making the money it did had nothing to do with JL. The movie was completely standalone. JL was a flop that did virtually nothing to improve Aquaman’s public image. Also, if you want to talk about BvS supposedly making money, I’ll just point out that the film wasn’t even the highest grossing Batman movie. The shared universe approach did DC absolutely absolutely no favors. Marvel beat them to it. No other franchise will ever have the novelty that the MCU managed to achieve, so there’s no point in trying to replicate their success. They’re better off going in a completely different direction. By the way, I’ll eat my shoe if the Matt Reeves Batman “movie” ever even gets made. I disagree 100%. You’re implying people would have bought Momoa as a billion dollar franchise actor without the teamup movie establishing him? Avengers built up Iron Man 3 the same way. Solo movies raise team up movies and team up movies raise solo movies. That will be gone with this new direction. You keep referencing better directional choices with staying with solo, but it’s not about that. They don’t make these because they love them, or they would have been doing this years before marvel. They’re doing it because they saw the money potential, and breaking them apart ruins that. |
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Post by thisguy4000 on May 3, 2019 14:27:40 GMT
Aquaman making the money it did had nothing to do with JL. The movie was completely standalone. JL was a flop that did virtually nothing to improve Aquaman’s public image. Also, if you want to talk about BvS supposedly making money, I’ll just point out that the film wasn’t even the highest grossing Batman movie. The shared universe approach did DC absolutely absolutely no favors. Marvel beat them to it. No other franchise will ever have the novelty that the MCU managed to achieve, so there’s no point in trying to replicate their success. They’re better off going in a completely different direction. By the way, I’ll eat my shoe if the Matt Reeves Batman “movie” ever even gets made. I disagree 100%. You’re implying people would have bought Momoa as a billion dollar franchise actor without the teamup movie establishing him? Avengers built up Iron Man 3 the same way. Solo movies raise team up movies and team up movies raise solo movies. That will be gone with this new direction. You keep referencing better directional choices with staying with solo, but it’s not about that. They don’t make these because they love them, or they would have been doing this years before marvel. They’re doing it because they saw the money potential, and breaking them apart ruins that. JL was a critical and commercial flop. It did Aquaman no favors.
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Post by scabab on May 3, 2019 23:27:23 GMT
This is at $348.6 million so yeah it's not hitting $400 million or even coming close to it.
Looks like it's going to finish closest to X-Men First Class then as far as superhero movies go.
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Post by CowherPowerForever on May 4, 2019 19:33:21 GMT
Looking like it will fail to hit 150 million domestically. It just lost over 1,000 screens this weekend and won't even make 3 million over this weekend. 140 to 145 million seems likely.
A multiplier of 2.65. Fairly low for a film so well received by fans and critics, but there's no doubt Endgame really hurt it. I bet WB is kicking themselves for not releasing it a week earlier.
Still a big success as the movie only had a budget of 100 million.
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Post by thisguy4000 on May 16, 2019 21:23:46 GMT
It’s officially listed at $360 million now. It might be able to squeeze out a couple million more dollars before the end of its run.
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Post by Hauntedknight87 on May 16, 2019 22:55:33 GMT
It's crazy that a Ant-Man movie made more than this.
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Post by thisguy4000 on May 16, 2019 23:12:08 GMT
It's crazy that a Ant-Man movie made more than this. Not really.
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Post by Hauntedknight87 on May 18, 2019 13:12:13 GMT
Well since it's been 6 weeks I'll unpinn this.
Disappointed that it didn't at least do over 500 million.
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Post by gljbradley on May 19, 2019 5:30:37 GMT
I had finally seen the film a few weeks ago and I LOVE it! It deserves to earn way more money!!! It is AWESOME!!!!
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