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I thought Batman V. Superman made a ton of money?
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An Open Letter To Warner Bros CEO Kevin Tsujihara (Contains: Ether)
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Triggerhappytel
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Edge of Tomorrow, Mad Max and...?
Rumours suggest it needed over $900 million to earn back its development + marketing budget at the box office. It'll still make money for WB (especially with DVD/BD sales, merchandise etc) but not nearly as much as it could/should have done.
Discotheque
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nice guys bro. it's hilarious.
they've got a lot of stinkers no doubt but I'll take WB's summer fare over disney any day of the week. they let in some interesting stuff with bigger budgets all the time. with nolan back next year it will be no different.
now whether or not this plan is a success for them is different. they're not doing as well as they hoped I imagine.
It made money, but it also cost a ton of money, too. It'll probably end up turning a profit in the end if it hasn't already, but WB wanted this to gross a billion dollars at the theaters, not limp across the finish line with an assist from video sales.
Nazgul_Hunter
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I'll add to that that I've heard Fantastic Beasts isn't that great either.
Pai Pai Master
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It didn't make anywhere near the amount of money that a movie called fucking BATMAN V SUPERMAN should have made
Seriously they had it so easy and its like they went out of their way to fuck that movie up from every direction
Dash_Riprock
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The Harry Potter series ended.
Not enough to break even in its theatrical run.
WrenchNinja
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I wish I could fail upwards like the wb higher ups
Should've been given the boot after Man of Steel. He had his chance and he blew it with that lame film. Unsure about labeling him as a director without one great critically acclaim though. He was riding high after 300 and Watchmen. Sure, Sucker Punch was tripe but Man of Steel had potential man. He seemed the right guy at the time.
They didn't do that hot in the box office.
Ever since Harry Potter, WB lacks a tentpole franchise. The Hobbit films did not perform as well as LOTR and the DC Extended universe is a total dumpster fire.
Nazgul_Hunter
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....Please be good
Friend of mine saw a test screening in Chicago. General impressions but I'm gonna spoiler tag anyways:
There's a good movie in there, but the movie's dragged down by a confusing plot, and too much focus on minor details / callbacks. If they cut like 15 minutes of screen time, it would be a lot better
Apparently he wasn't the right guy, more like one in the list that would take the job because they needed it quickly to retain the rights or something.
Think Aronofsky, Tony Scott, Matt Reeves, Duncan Jones, Jonathan Liebesman were lined up by Nolan and his wife.
heh, I completely forgot about that, but there was pressure to get Man of Steel into production on a certain timetable in the event Siegel and Schuster's families took back control of the Superman rights. WB ended up working out a deal with their estates anyway, so that time crunch was all for naught.
dark_chris
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I always think that open letters like this to big people don't get read nor do they care, so as long as what they do still makes them money or business continues.
The entire script should have been thrown out...I'm not even a Superman fan and even I know some things...
1. Superman would never allow someone to die if he had the power to stop it. ("Bye Dad, LOL!")
2. His father on earth instilled in him these altruistic traits...instead we get a scene where dad actively tells THE MOST POWERFUL BEING ON EARTH that its better to let other people die than reveal your true identity.
3. He would do everything in his power to prevent putting others in risk...like NOT fighting to the death in a major city.
There are other structural and pacing issues with the film but to pass on the 3 points above means that Snyder simply "doesn't get it"...he is instead approaching these stories and characters with an experimental eye ("Let's try something different! Something unexpected!") instead of "rehashing" old stories. I understand that motivation but abandoning the core tenets of one of the most beloved fictional characters of all time is beyond stupid and should have earned him a kick to the curb.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Good letter, and its exactly how I feel too. I wanted to like Man of Steel, I wanted to like BvS, I even wanted to like Suicide Squad, but I just didnt. They are all bad movies. But yeah compared to some of the other crap WB has been making they actually seem good in comparison. Letter is on point, agreed 100%.
Yeah, I hope WW turns out really good, it looks great from the trailer. But then so did Man of Steel too, and Suicide Squad as well. If the WB execs fuck with WW in editing and ruin it then Ill be literally pissed off about it. Im hoping they wisen up though instead.
I really didn't want to hear WW was another mess.
Yeah, I hope WW turns out really good, it looks great from the trailer. But then so did Man of Steel too, and Suicide Squad as well. If the WB execs fuck with WW in editing and ruin it then Ill be literally pissed off about it. Im hoping they wisen up though instead.
VeryGooster
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Not surprised to already hear skepticism inside about WW. I thought the trailer looked good but after impressively fucking up MOS, BvS and SS I'm already kinda waiting on the red flags for Wonder Woman.
ViewtifulJC
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laughed way too much at "Fucking PAN, you jerk." Warner Bros slate gon be as boring as Paramount and Sony's soon
It's not hyperbole.
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Discotheque
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god please no. they're literally the last ones standing right now.
You can tell how wrong Snyder is when he just throws out Olsen for his excuse of shock but what shock, he is meaningless to the audience since we've never had the time with him. Snyder basically amounts to for the lols, flip it wow, it does something right guys! He seems to think symbolism and mythology sprinkles on his ice cream makes it great but it's sprinkles on a steaming turd and as random.
Ordinaryundone
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Eh....he did 300. Maybe not as big as The Matrix but I'd argue it's almost as influential on a pop culture level. Especially these days.
Dash_Riprock
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Not even close.
Discotheque
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no she's talking about Max. some shitty movie about a dog.
FlashbladeGAF
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As crappy as WB is, I don't want Disney to be the only ones in the game putting out anything good because eventually this too will get stale.
Goddamn I forgot about this. I think I laughed out loud in the theater first time I saw the trailer. A veteran dog with PTSD children's movie? Who the fuck approved this?Not Fury Road... THIS
The biggest influence 300 had was that meme for a weekend and maybe having a long string of lackluster copycats that would never repeat the success of 300.
300 is to men what Twilight is for women.
oh thank god.
Are you joking? I know a ton of women that love 300 for the simple fact that it's mostly naked men for the majority of the film.
Dash_Riprock
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I thought that was the Fast and Furious series...
Mengy
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Its strange, when I saw 300 in the theater I loved it. When I bought it on disc and watched it again, I thought it was okay. With every subsequent viewing though I seem to like it less and less. Im not sure why that is, but its definitely how I feel about 300.
Watchmen DC though, I legit love the hell out of that film by Snyder.
MoS I feel very meh about, BvS I strongly disliked, and Im waiting to rent SS out of the Redbox when it hits it. I have no hype at all for JL since they have Snyder doing it, I wish they would have given it to someone else.
300 is bad and whatever pop culture impact it had dissipated years ago. The Matrix is a modern classic.
Standing against what? WB is making plenty of shit now, and doing so for entirely commercial reasons. This ain't the filmmaker driven WB anymore.
Standing against what? WB is making plenty of shit now, and doing so for entirely commercial reasons. This ain't the filmmaker driven WB anymore.
Ah nice to have reminder that batman v superman had like 10 minutes of batman and superman actually being together in the movie. In a near 3 hour movie. Fucking lol
Compare to civil war which had 2 key much better executed hero versus hero battles, including probably 3-4 other key action scenes in general.
Is it true though that despite the near 1 billion revenue that this movie cause people to get fired?
Compare to civil war which had 2 key much better executed hero versus hero battles, including probably 3-4 other key action scenes in general.
Is it true though that despite the near 1 billion revenue that this movie cause people to get fired?
FlashbladeGAF
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Both movies also had an antagonist who tricked our heroes into fighting each other as well as using their mothers to trigger the fight.
Hollywood rewards failure and bad decision making and punishes people who do their best to hold a sinking ship up?
No fucking shit!
Freddie Wong pretty much encapsulates the entire goddamn upper management!
In short, they don't give a fuck cause they are the ones hauling millions of dollars anyway no matter what happens! Even when they loose their jobs for a shitty performance they still get for some inane reason fucking bonuses of MORE millions of dollars!
No fucking shit!
Freddie Wong pretty much encapsulates the entire goddamn upper management!
In short, they don't give a fuck cause they are the ones hauling millions of dollars anyway no matter what happens! Even when they loose their jobs for a shitty performance they still get for some inane reason fucking bonuses of MORE millions of dollars!
Yes, and it was also the most expensive film ever made, films have to make double their budget back to just be considered a good return, they need to make way more to really be considered a success
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