-
Hey Guest. Check out your NeoGAF Wrapped 2025 results here!
Wkd BO 0325-2716 - Batman vs Superman (or Grindr hookup gone sideways) bests Bunny
- Thread starter xaosslug
- Start date
- Status
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Exactly. That shit ain't happening.
Compared to what Warner expected to get from a movie they spent $400 million making and promoting.Shit show compared to what?
Bobby Roberts
Banned
It might not make 60, much less 90.
NealMcCauley
Member
Damn, this is morbidly fascinating to track.
Yea BvS has pretty weak competition this weekend but if word of mouth ends up being that bad it won't matter
Interfectum
Member
If Batman/Superman combined can't beat fucking Deadpool... Man I dunno.
They will. WB will keep this shit in cinemas as long as it takes.!
Extra Sauce
Member
I don't understand the reasoning behind needing to make 925-930 to be profitable off a 400 investment?
Is the other 500 perceived value of the time they invested in the project?
edit: This was a dumb question.
Is the other 500 perceived value of the time they invested in the project?
edit: This was a dumb question.
Interfectum
Member
The fact that it's even a question or in the realm of possibility should make WB rethink their entire path going forward.
If they can't pull off more success than this with "Batman vs. Superman" good fucking luck getting people to care about Justice League, Wonder Woman or Cyborg (lol).
PhoncipleBone
Banned
If it were Sony, yes. Look what they did with Spectre. I am still surprised WB didn't limp Man of Steel to $300m.
great gif. enjoyed that more than the film. would be great if there was a way to have them yelling "Martha" to each other first a few times.
Ideally Warners will hope BvS beats Deadpool's gross in the US for bragging rights but a win in terms of worldwide gross is what the studio really cares about.
If/when Suicide Squad is a massive hit in August the global grosses for the two films, when viewed together, will give the DCU and Warners a massive win and a very solid platform form which to build their potential franchise futher.
Screaming_Gremlin
My QB is a Dick and my coach is a Nutt
Not all of the revenue is going back to the studio. I am sure others can provide more details, but isn't the estimate about 50% for the domestic take and around 33% for international (obviously differing for each country).
So theater owners just play movies for free now?
DeathoftheEndless
Crashing this plane... with no survivors!
Those Marvel reptilians keeping people out of theaters with their bad reviews. Sickening.
Extra Sauce
Member
Oh right, now I feel stupid for not taking into account the cut taken by the theater chains and such.
And now I feel sad.
Interfectum
Member
Theaters don't get much money (if any) from the first initial weeks of the movie, right?
That's why their concession prices are insane.
BronsonLee
Member
Kill me.
Studios get roughly 55% of the domestic gross, 40% of the overseas gross, and 25% of China.
A film making 350M domestic, 550M overseas, and 100M in China would bring in around $430M to the studio. Theatres take the rest.
That stopped being true a decade ago
BronsonLee
Member
I think we should find a way to blame Bobby for this somehow
Biggest-Geek-Ever
Member
$8.1M Wednesday according to Deadline. I haven't had the greatest expectations since Friday, but goddamn have the last two weekdays been brutal. It makes me wonder if it'll surprise us and recover over yhr weekend, but historically Friday and Saturday increases after Easter are weak, so that seems unlikely.
This quote from deadline did make me laugh
This quote from deadline did make me laugh
That... wasn't Passion's opening day number.
Interfectum
Member
It's been ~20 years since I worked at a movie theater. Didn't realize that changed. I feel old now.
BronsonLee
Member
So how many threads are we going to get about BvS on Sunday
Extra Sauce
Member
I just want Batfleck to stick around. Maybe Wonder Gal too. Everything else can burn, continuity included.
Dark Knight Rises is dumb as hell. None of it makes sense. It's fantastically well-acted, to be sure, but that movie does not hold up at all otherwise.
Overseas takes also tend to go up these days. There was lots of discussion when Disney upped their take from 47,5% to 53% for Avengers 2 in Germany. Theater owners revolted and threatened to not play future Disney movies but then Star Wars came and all of them bowed. So now 53% is the standard take for Disney here. Interesting stuff.
JadedWriter
Member
After Saturday or at least the initial weekend I stopped seeing long lines to go see it so I could see the audience tapering off a bit. Mind you the theater is in Manhattan and I was on a line to get into it for about 15 minutes. How this determines legs I don't know.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
Member
"Did WB consider the WrestleMania effect when estimating BvS?"
When big films started doing 70% of the total gross in the first two weeks, those types of deals drove some exibitioners out of business.
It was a system set up in a time when bad legs meant 4x opening weekend. Now thats considered amazing legs for big openers.
Pop-O-Matic
Banned
If only Bobby didn't shit on Zack Snynder's Fuckin' Owl Movie so much, then it might have made enough money that Zack would be stuck fucking up that franchise for another decade while we all have fun speculating in the Justice League: Mortal Production Thread.
DeathoftheEndless
Crashing this plane... with no survivors!
Well...sometimes I go to bed late at night. A couple of times...a couple of times Id come out on the porch, and Id see Mr. Roberts in the wee hours of the morning standing out in front of his house...looking up at the sky. Thats right, looking up at the sky as if...as if he were waiting for something...as if he were looking for something...
I want fun/interesting/good movies. After seeing MoS and BvS I'm not sure Snyder can deliver with these characters (or any characters). I have 0 hopes for Justice League now and the rest of the characters are not that interesting to me.
There are only 2 things I can look forward to now: Batman solo movie, Suicide Squad. I'm not sure he has a say on those, so to be honest, it makes almost no difference. Damage is done.
Yup. Personally I think it's on track to do just that unless his contact is water tight. The opening shows the interest is there and initial interest in MoS was good from the trailers. Ultimately whether some like it or not I think the reaction to MoS and now (probably but its heading in that direction) BvS makes it clear that Snyder and WB's current tone and direction isn't right if they want this to be more popular and critically well recieved.
If the film drops the way I think it will and stops just short of $1 billion or scrapes to $1 billion then I think the writing on the wall should be there for WB to see.
A great Batman film can clear $1 billion by itself (and Nolan's films did that a while back, adjusting for inflation they'd be bigger directly compared to BvS today and they didn't have 3D tax etc).
A great Batman/Superman film or JL film should by proxy (and example of Marvel films) be in $1.4 to $1.5 billion territory easily and to be blunt should be able to get decent reviews.
The current approach while its had interesting ideas and some good scenes has overall been uneven and simply hasn't clicked the way you'd expect with critics and audiences alike.
Now BvS is showing a decent jump from MoS so maybe they keep Snyder but it will have to be more as a director for hire told what to film by writing/creative team and with his own ideas clipped. Whether he'd want that is another matter of course. He could walk then I guess citing the old "creative differences".
One thing I do know is I won't be investing in another film like BvS from WB and Snyder.
Yeah same here, although it's not just Snyder but almost everyone who oversees and makes decisions about the DCCU movies. I don't think they have neither confidence nor a plan in what they are doing (look at Green Lantern), it's almost like they rushing are it and trying to make their movies look cool (not just the visuals, but characters and stories from the comics like TDKR in BvS).
Just look at Kevin Feige at Marvel and Kathleen Kennedy at Lucasfilm, they know what they want and they also have a clear vision or at least a broad idea on how and where the universe (MCU/Star Wars) will go and expand. I don't get the same impression from WB and Snyder.
AlteredBeast
Fork 'em, Sparky!
The only things better about DKR than Cap 1 are the villian and the score. Unfortunately, the villian in TDKR gets neutered and ends up looking like a gigantic vagina. Cap is the better movie in my opinion. Top 10 comic book movie and origin story, especially.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
There are a lot of people who thought it ranged from okay to great. Go in with low expectations and hope to enjoy it.
After a huge debut the drops over the course of the week have been very large, by any measure.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
WTH at this comment on the Deadline article about Wednesday's gross:
"I am a devout Christian but admittedly more liberal than my peers and everyone in my service loved the film! These are very conservative families we are talking about. They plan to watch it again this weekend. WB hit a home run."
What does that have to do with anything? LOL.
"I am a devout Christian but admittedly more liberal than my peers and everyone in my service loved the film! These are very conservative families we are talking about. They plan to watch it again this weekend. WB hit a home run."
What does that have to do with anything? LOL.
BronsonLee
Member
It means GOD'S NOT DEAD 2, AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE FRIDAY
ryutaro's mama
Member
Their first Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday aren't exactly encouraging.
I think AVATAR's second and third M-W beat BvS' first? I'd have to confirm.
A major blockbuster about iconic comic heroes everyone is familiar with thematically built around sacrifice, death, and redemption, opening on the Easter weekend. I dunno, you tell me.
- Status
Similar threads
- Poll
- Poll