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Wkd Box Office 0401-0316 - BvS has 'worse legs than Barbara Gordon' -- Sibersk Esto
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Ant-Man was definitely an origin story, but one for a legacy character. Not quite the same, but its an origin for all intends an purposes.
? We had a full fledged Scott Lang Origin. When the movie would revovle around Pym, I would agree, but Lang doesnt have the suit for about a half hour in the movie and trains basicly until the big showdown.
Unless I understand you wrong.
Ant-man, no. Scott Lang, yes.
They cheated. It's an origin, but the actual powers and suit were pretty much pre-established with a simple "I made this. Okay, let's get this show on the road."
Not that I minded either way.
Uh, Ant-Man was an origin story.
Pai Pai Master
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Yeah, shoulda been more clear but the origin for "ant-man", the superhero and not specifically Scott Lang, was essentially " I found this shit that makes shit small". They could have gone a lot further and wasted everyone's time, thankfully they did not.
And its the best of all superhero movies ever.
Agreed.
Ant-Man was introduced as "hero" that already existed, way before any of the events happened, the origin story comes into how the "current" Ant-Man came into being.
DontBeThatGuy
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What a time we live in when grossing nearly 700 mil in two weeks is a huge disappointment.
Dash_Riprock
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There is already precedence for that.
Freewheelin'
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The film probably cost 500m to make.
As of now, WB roughly get around half of that 700m.
This is a disappointment.
Bobby Roberts
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Yeah, Amazing Spider-Man 2 is the original Smashflop. (c)The Onion
DontBeThatGuy
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I know it's a disappointment, absolutely but I'm just thinking outloud about how insane the film industry can be.
Freeza Under The Shower
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TAS in general is in a different league of how 90s cartoons treated characters. Hell, the Nolan trilogy was point for point a recreation of most of it. The line 'I make my own luck' is literally from an episode where scarecrow tries to poison Gotham by putting it in the water system underneath Arkham. Sound familiar? It should.
You know what's weird about a 'darker' setting though? Diniverse Freeze might actually work in that. They already took the batmobile segment from the last game, so why not? Though apparently nobody told Snyder that those segments are also non-lethal in the game logic... it's weird too,
because later on Batman seems to simply disable people rather than kill them like most people seem to have assumed because of the earlier driving segment. I definitely had that "oh god, now Alfred is going to kill people" thought too
Dash_Riprock
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You're half way there bro!
Bobby Roberts
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Anecdotal evidence alert: One of the indie first runs here in Portland is completely dropping Batman v Superman for next weekend, and running 10 Cloverfield Lane instead.
hooooooooly crap
Hmm...I still need to watch that movie. Can't believe it opens the same week as Civil War here.
Cable/Deadpool
Deadpool when he was with Copycat
X-force
But Agent X remains the best Deadpool story ever told.
Is there a source for the 500 million? The biggest estimate I've seen was about 400 million ( latino-review) with the movie needing to make about 800-900 to return a profit. Deadline was reporting last Monday that it may come up short of making a profit in the theater run but with about 700 million right now it will likely make a profit once all revenue streams are counted.
You live in Portland? Explains so much
If I don't ever make it out to Hawaii, the pacific Northwest is my second choice. I love the rain.
It cost 250M, but when you factor in marketing it's around 400-500. It's typical for all event type movies.
Yeah, I just wanted to know if there was another source besides the Latino-review numbers that most sites were running with.
Which I don't get is Spectre had a similar budget 220M and they needed 600M to turn a profit. So nobody knows for sure.
Bobby Roberts
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Goyer himself said Man of Steel got budgeted at 260, and that was down from the 300 they initially wanted.
There's no way Batman v Superman cost 10 mil less than Man of Steel.
There's no way Batman v Superman cost 10 mil less than Man of Steel.
MHWilliams
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Deadline
Budget plus marketing at around $415 million. Assuming $925 million take, Warner Bros should get around $200 million in profit, but current estimates have already cut into that and the numbers assume healthy home and rental business.
I'm skeptical of the $250 million production budget number though. Reasonably sure that's higher.
Sounds about right. Spectre did 880 and the profit was 90M.
PhoncipleBone
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Barely beat out Origins: Wolverine. Fell short of the Hulk goal.
The first Wolverine was the most frontloaded superhero film to open over $75M, with its opening weekend accounting for 47.3% of its domestic total.
BvS beats that if it fails to hit $350M domestic.
DrForester
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Is that like a Chick tract for DC fanatics?
Haha, where did you find this, Dr?
It's the Onion.
JeTmAn81
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I need more of this in my life
PhoncipleBone
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God bless The Onion. I love their cartoons like that because they are so over the top.
Escape Goat
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Need to add Deadpool andvadd in Supes and Batfleck.
What's really funny to me is that there were one or two gaf members who legitimately believed this was going to be the response to BvS and that it would be Marvel's reckoning.
Bobby Roberts
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What are the odds that actually happens?
I mean, I know they're increasing, but it still seems probable they'll at least hit 350.
(also, I think it's been spelled out already, but those comics are parodying both stupid editorial cartoons, and the entire concept of people seriously buying into DC vs Marvel)
My best guess for the coming week (accuracy will improve when we get some weekday numbers)
Mon - $3.5M
Tues - $3.9M
Wed - $2.9M
Thurs - $2.8M
Weekend - $23M
That would put the domestic total at a little under $297M by Sunday.
Spider-Man 3 after 3 weekends - $282.4M (third weekend was $29M)
Deadpool after 3 weekends - $285.3M (third weekend was $31M).
Matching Spider-Man 3's gross after next weekend would put it at $351M, so there's not much margin to continue doing worse.
The irony is that the lack of competition just makes its weakness more glaring.
Comparatively, during the dogpile in the summer movie season, the major films are in such close proximity that it's not really that surprising if they drop quickly in many cases, even when good.
Bobby Roberts
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Yeah, the really fun 'what-if' is imagining how steep the 2nd weekend drop would have been if this had opened in June, like Man of Steel did.
Pop-O-Matic
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First film in history to go from 9 to 7 figure weekends in one week.
PhoncipleBone
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Bobby Roberts
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"What if, for fun, we introduce Ted Kord as Lois' cameraman?"
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