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Busty said:
Have a quick glance at Twitter and I think you'd be surprised by the number of positive Tweets from people who enjoyed the film.
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Have a quick glance at the threads on GAF and I think you'd be surprised by the number of positive posts from people who enjoyed the film.

That does not mean it has good word of mouth. Tracking is already starting to indicate otherwise.
 
Prompto said:
Deadpool is gonna be more profitable than X-Men Apocalypse, Civil War, and Batman v Superman. That's hilarious.
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In terms of money made at the box office? Absolutely.

Overall profits? I'd say that the ancillary markets (merch etc) for BvS and Civil War will generate more money than Deadpool will for Fox.
 
BronsonLee said:
People really try to downplay the effect Mayweather v. Pacquiao had, but it clearly had an effect on the gross. People were not concerned about Avengers that night at all.

That being said, it would've missed projections anyway.
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I sure HOPE no one is trying to downplay the impact that had: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2015&wknd=19&p=.htm

Everything not named Ultron had a drop about 20% better than you'd expect. Mayweather/Pacquiao gave the BO a first round KO on Sat.
 
GhaleonEB said:
Have a quick glance at the threads on GAF and I think you'd be surprised by the number of positive posts from people who enjoyed the film.

That does not mean it has good word of mouth. Tracking is already starting to indicate otherwise.
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Tracking, what tracking? I don't know what tracking you're talking about?

PhoncipleBone said:
And a fair share of negative ones as well.
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True, I was just saying that there are those who enjoyed the film and, anecdotally, I head a lot of positive things from people at my screening,.
 
Primethius said:
Flash is by far my favorite super hero TV show right now. That part in BvS as a result of that... Lmao!
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Flash season 1 was one of the best live action super hero things in a while. I loved that they went unashamedly crazy with all the comic book stuff, and kept digging in with C and D tier characters.

Most comic shows or movies were like, "We are trying to make this grounded." Flash was like, "Here is a telepathic super gorilla."
 
Simo said:
WB aren't going to give Miller JL when they're still salty about the money and receipts for Fury Road. I mean, I love George and Fury Road and would love for him to head something in the DC universe but honestly I don't see WB trusting him right now.
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Budget $150 million[3][4]
Box office $377.6 million[5]

+ advertising, I still imagine they made money.
 
DreamingCrazy said:
I get the same feeling that some people want this to fail. I loved the movie, despite it's flaws. I want an expansive DC cinematic universe like Marvel has done and this movie was the way Warner decided to kick it off.



I don't understand posts like this. Do you have some loyalty to Marvel studio's or something? Some type of bet you are losing with someone? Did you feel this way even before the movie came out? Why do you want to see the movie fail?
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I don't get it either. I thought BvS was great. I think it is a far better movie than Age of Ultron and don't get the hate. I had very low expectations going in because of the reviews, and it handily exceeded
All of them.
 
Simo said:
WB didn't have a clue. Prior to Fury Road releasing they literally told licensors for merchandising not to bother because the film was terrible. Then there's the film's budget...
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You got some receipts for these statements, friend?
 
LegendofDragoonLives said:
Budget $150 million[3][4]
Box office $377.6 million[5]

+ advertising, I still imagine they made money.
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WB never disclosed the full budget because they spent $100 million+ alone on the production between 2009-2012 when they were still in Broken Hill, Australia and nothing was shot. lol

You got some receipts for these statements, friend?
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About WB calling out the film's quality to dissuade licensors? Sure!
https://www.facebook.com/chroniclec...8/?type=3&size=1191,670&fbid=1669668403292998

You can also look at NECA and other companies on their social media who mentioned the same thing.

As for the budget? There's no official links no but that comes from people who actually worked on the film.
 
At this point I legit want to know what dirt Miller has on WB to allow him to blow 250 mil on a freaking Rated R Mad Max reboot

Like how did that shit happen. Did he just keep sending bills?
 
BronsonLee said:
At this point I legit want to know what dirt Miller has on WB to allow him to blow 250 mil on a freaking Rated R Mad Max reboot

Like how did that shit happen. Did he just keep sending bills?
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Well, you are talking about the same company that gave the Wachowskis $200M for a Tatum space elf/dog movie. Maybe they're just run by crazy people. Or Vince McMahon.
 
WB spent $150M on a Peter Pan movie, and decided to double down with a $180M Tarzan movie a year later.

Well them and their financial partners.


Also, we can probably stop talking about $400M domestic for BvS, because I don't see how that is happening. BvS' Saturday + Sunday were more than $20M behind the same days for Iron Man 3, and IM3 didn't exactly blast past $400M.
 
Biggest-Geek-Ever said:
Well, you are talking about the same company that gave the Wachowskis $200M for a Tatum space elf/dog movie. Maybe they're just run by crazy people. Or Vince McMahon.
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kswiston said:
WB spent $150M on a Peter Pan movie, and decided to double down with a $180M Tarzan movie a year later.

Well them and their financial partners.
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I mean, I -love- WB. They'll fucking try anything. Edge of Tomorrow. American Sniper. Mad Max. Man from UNCLE. All the Nolan movies.

They do insane shit. They don't even care. But sometimes that means shit like Jupiter Ascending and Pan.
 
BronsonLee said:
I mean, I -love- WB. They'll fucking try anything. Edge of Tomorrow. American Sniper. Mad Max. Man from UNCLE. All the Nolan movies.

They do insane shit. They don't even care. But sometimes that means shit like Jupiter Ascending and Pan.
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Agree except for Sniper. That movie was basic as fuck and safe as hell.
 
kswiston said:
Also, we can probably stop talking about $400M domestic for BvS, because I don't see how that is happening. BvS' Saturday + Sunday were more than $20M behind the same days for Iron Man 3, and IM3 didn't exactly blast past $400M.
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Yeah, I'm thinking that ship has sailed as well. Had the same Sunday as FF7 despite the larger opening, and that hit $350m; the bigger Friday isn't enough to close the gap. We'll see how the week goes but it's going end well below $400m.
 
GhaleonEB said:
Yeah, I'm thinking that ship has sailed as well. Had the same Sunday as FF7 despite the larger opening, and that hit $350m; the bigger Friday isn't enough to close the gap. We'll see how the week goes but it's going end well below $400m.
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Wait really? Sooo the WW looks awesome, but sub 400 seems pretty bad no?
 
CaviarMeths said:
My mistake, but online buzz and WoM was very strong. Didn't help.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/21/movies/21box.html?_r=0
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Snakes on the plane had an interesting box office opening. At the time, Thursday previews were separate from the weekend, so box office mojo had Snakes behind Talladega nights of all films by a few hundred thousand with estimates. But when weekend actuals came, the Thursday box office was a little lower and Snakes won the weekend by about 50k
 
Most people don't spend $10 to watch a movie because they thought a SLJ meme they saw on Facebook/message boards was funny.

milanbaros said:
The WW thing is more due to the simultaneous release.
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Age of Ultron made around $600M if you add the opening frames of from all the territories it released in. It just happened to have a 2 week launch (plus China and Japan down the line).
 
Bronx-Man said:
It's the same situation Man of Steel was in: good, but not the mega-hit WB wanted.
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It's difficult to say for sure without knowing exactly what WB's internal expectations were, but I'm not sure it'll even reach "good" at this point.

I'd guess something like:
<1.1B: good (satisfactory?)
<1B: underperforming
<900M: very disappointing
<800M: WB execs panic/commit mass suicide

The last of those looks pretty unlikely, at least!
 
Father_Brain said:
It's difficult to say for sure without knowing exactly what WB's internal expectations were, but I'm not sure it'll even reach "good" at this point.

I'd guess something like:
<1.1B: good (satisfactory?)
<1B: underperforming
<900M: very disappointing
<800M: WB execs panic/commit mass suicide

The last of those looks pretty unlikely, at least!
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I'd have to assume that WB would consider +1.1B the target they want to attain, primarily because that's the most they could had made out of Batman in solo capacity.

This is being propped up more in every regard in terms of marketing and the whole "event" of combining these two legacy characters. If they can't do more than "just as good" as a four year old movie with less things riding on it, I'm starting to think WB will be examining their cards more carefully. I imagine it wouldn't be bad for them if they got right underneath 1B, but since their media franchise is riding on WoM (which so far is not that good) circumstances are a little more tricky to work with.
 
NotLiquid said:
I'd have to assume that WB would consider +1.1B the target they want to attain, primarily because that's the most they could had made out of Batman in solo capacity.

This is being propped up more in every regard in terms of marketing and the whole "event" of combining these two legacy characters. If they can't do more than "just as good" as a four year old movie with less things riding on it, I'm starting to think WB will be examining their cards more carefully. I imagine it wouldn't be bad for them if they got right underneath 1B, but since their media franchise is riding on WoM (which so far is not that good) circumstances are a little more tricky to work with.
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I'm trying to be generous here!
 
Fraull said:
Lol. What a post.

People I know seem to think it was an average to good movie. Everyone agrees it has its flaws. I am happy to see it succeed. I don't want WB to be rewarded for its mistakes, but I want to see a strong DC cinematic universe. Those thirsty for it to crash must really hate DC.
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Why does a person unhappy with the movie have to hate DC? I've seen Superman Returns and Nolan's Batman Trilogy and have enjoyed both. Not to mention my love for the 90's Superman and Batman cartoons and Justice League and Young Justice. On top of my love for Batman Beyond. Sometimes a person just doesn't like a movie quite simply because they just thought it was a bad movie.
 
Father_Brain said:
It's difficult to say for sure without knowing exactly what WB's internal expectations were, but I'm not sure it'll even reach "good" at this point.

I'd guess something like:
<1.1B: good (satisfactory?)
<1B: underperforming
<900M: very disappointing
<800M: WB execs panic/commit mass suicide

The last of those looks pretty unlikely, at least!
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I think that the 'ok' cut off is probably around a billion. Less than a billion means they messed up.
 
JadedWriter said:
Why does a person unhappy with the movie have to hate DC? I've seen Superman Returns and Nolan's Batman Trilogy and have enjoyed both. Not to mention my love for the 90's Superman and Batman cartoons and Justice League and Young Justice. On top of my love for Batman Beyond. Sometimes a person just doesn't like a movie quite simply because they just thought it was a bad movie.
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It's strange. I'd probably hate the movie less if I wasn't such a huge DC fanboy.

But just having two of my favorite heroes on screen doesn't do much for me in the post Marvel dominated world.
 
JadedWriter said:
Why does a person unhappy with the movie have to hate DC? I've seen Superman Returns and Nolan's Batman Trilogy and have enjoyed both. Not to mention my love for the 90's Superman and Batman cartoons and Justice League and Young Justice. On top of my love for Batman Beyond. Sometimes a person just doesn't like a movie quite simply because they just thought it was a bad movie.
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I don't get it either-it's a persecution complex. Everyone would be thrilled to have a GREAT connected DC cinematic universe. But so far, it's not off to a great start and that's disappointing and sad. Why can't we have this opinion?
 
Dalek said:
I don't get it either-it's a persecution complex. Everyone would be thrilled to have a GREAT connected DC cinematic universe. But so far, it's not off to a great start and that's disappointing and sad. Why can't we have this opinion?
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lol silly marvel fanboy you cant like both. anything you dont like in this movie means your a hater and haters gonna hate i love this movie suck it haters.
 
movie was not great, but far from the utter shit hyperbole that online would have you believe. basically a ham-handed-beat-you-over-the-head tale of power and responsibility, followed by like 30 minutes of good-to-great action movie. The final 30 or so minutes actually have me a bit excited for the future of the DCCU.. the first 2 hours though may be hard to sit through again... (I actually typed 20 hours there and thought of intentionally leaving it as an obvious freudian slip)
 
Primethius said:
It's strange. I'd probably hate the movie less if I wasn't such a huge DC fanboy.

But just having two of my favorite heroes on screen doesn't do much for me in the post Marvel dominated world.
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What's even worse is that World's Finest did the job better how many years ago? Just remake that shit in live action.
borghe said:
movie was not great, but far from the utter shit hyperbole that online would have you believe. basically a ham-handed-beat-you-over-the-head tale of power and responsibility, followed by like 30 minutes of good-to-great action movie. The final 30 or so minutes actually have me a bit excited for the future of the DCCU.. the first 2 hours though may be hard to sit through again... (I actually typed 20 hours there and thought of intentionally leaving it as an obvious freudian slip)
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Snyder has the narrative subtlety of using a nuke to kill an ant. I'm fine with him with 300 and Watchmen and I'm actually not even on the Man of Steel hate train, but ooh boy BvS just left me in some sort of drained state after I got out of it.
 
Dalek said:
I don't get it either-it's a persecution complex. Everyone would be thrilled to have a GREAT connected DC cinematic universe. But so far, it's not off to a great start and that's disappointing and sad. Why can't we have this opinion?
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Precisely. We want great DC movies, but many of us are disappointed greatly with what we have been getting.
 
borghe said:
movie was not great, but far from the utter shit hyperbole that online would have you believe. basically a ham-handed-beat-you-over-the-head tale of power and responsibility, followed by like 30 minutes of good-to-great action movie. The final 30 or so minutes actually have me a bit excited for the future of the DCCU.. the first 2 hours though may be hard to sit through again... (I actually typed 20 hours there and thought of intentionally leaving it as an obvious freudian slip)
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I have my problems with it but not nearly as harsh as some of the reviews that seem to think it is utter garbage. Bottom of the barrel superhero film.
 
3N16MA said:
I have my problems with it but not nearly as harsh as some of the reviews that seem to think it is utter garbage. Bottom of the barrel superhero film.
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It's not the epic shit heap that Green Lantern was. I saw only the last 40 minutes and that was enough for me to know that GL is shit.
 
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