During its opening weekend, it grossed an underwhelming $55 million at the domestic box office. In its second weekend, that dropped 72% to a mere $15.3 million, with some pundits already predicting this will be a box office bomb.
According to Luiz Fernando, the film is estimated to earn $280-310 million globally in its theatrical run. When pitted against The Flash’s $200-220 million production budget, $150 million in marketing, and the fact that studios don’t take all of their box office haul, the movie may lose $200 million for Warner Bros.
Fernando believes they may have lost less money by releasing it on Max or not releasing it at all.
please let this be the one that kills capeshit movies again, i pray to a silent, unheeding god
that's it that's the future an animated multiverse movie but instead of being a movie you see in the cinema we produce the movie in the form of cheap printed magazines and ship all the movies out in special shops for them
Spiderverse and Guardians 3 as opposed to Ant Man and Flash show that the audience's at least want their capeshit to be good. That's their bare minimum now.
I don't think capeshit movies will die until Marvel movies start tanking this bad. DC movies are generally expected not to be good (and I say this as a DC Comics fan), and this one has been in development hell since 2017.
Marvel has had critical failures and movies that didn't meet box office expectations, but not like this
Right, that's what I mean by "this bad". Like, Morbius and Eternals are a stumble, this is a pratfall.
Morbius wasn't marvel though it was Sony using a marvel character wasn't it
https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/1297478-the-flash-directors-cut-runtime-is-4-hours-long
The Flash Director’s Cut Runtime Is 4-Hours Long
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: 2h 58m
Barry Lyndon: 3h 23m
Melancholia: 2h 16m
Lawrence of Arabia: 3h 42m
What the fuck story are you telling that's longer and more complex?
Idk that makes me a little interested. Like how can this movie possibly be constructed so as to be 4 hours long? Now I wanna watch it.
It's loosely based on a comic book crossover event that covered a five (5) issue limited series, sixteen three (3) issue limited series, and four (4)one-shots. Depending on how much of that you wanted to tell, you could stretch it out for however long you wanted.
Notably, however, the direct to video animated Flashpoint movie boiled it all down to 80 minutes.
I'd watch the director's cut for the same reason. His power is just running fast right? The movie would just be him running toward or away from things for as long as a marathon lasts.
When I see a well reviewed movie hit a tight 90 minutes, it's almost an instant watch from me. Please, more 90-minute movies.
The Flash Director’s Cut Runtime Is 4-Hours Long
fastest man in the world he ain't
One of the most insane things I've ever seen was how they would wipe shows from existence for Tax Write-Offs
They get rid of it and don’t release the IP so you literally can’t access it anymore. It’s fucking bullshit.
A lot of the hbo stuff that disappeared ended up on tubi tv. (Love craft Country and some scooby do stuff)
Yeah. Its probably not a good movie but I'm forever going to be mad that Batgirl is lost media forever unless someone leaks it. Like they legally CANT release it because of the writeoff now. Which is garbage legal bullshit and I hate it. I hate lost media I hate it. And this is INTENTIONALLY lost media.
I am glad that the capeshit movie starring a literal monster did poorly. Fuck Ezra Miller.
I think that it's funny that they trashed the Batgirl movie as a tax write off and decided that this was the movie that they just had to release.
Tbf that’s because they realized that this movie would suck and that Keaton Batman wasn’t worth exploring further.
Everything I've seen of this film (which is admittedly just a couple of clips people were shitting on but still) makes it look like a Smosh sketch or something
I’m not sure, wouldn’t our lead actor be a convicted felon if they weren’t so rich?
SHUT UP!
Oooh, wasn't aware there was one, will have to check it out
It's such a terrible movie that halfway through their review they give up and start pitching their own movie ideas.
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-9v9gh-19181e9d
Actually we live in a hellworld so this will just result in Marvel buying DC and then making Marvel vs DC movie.
You WILL watch slop You WILL eat slop AND you WILL be happy
You WILL watch slop You WILL eat slop AND you WILL be happy
Yes I will.
I love how this movie so clearly is an example of the new standard for capeshit slop: "what if we just made an episode of a low budget CW Show but it was 2 and a half hours long and we bill the studio $200 million dollars."
Capeshit is the new home of the hollywoodest of accounting: every movie is budgeted for $200 million dollars, but has an actual production cost of around $10 million.
I can't wait until Ezra Miller has a comeback in 20 years with a movie called TurboMan based on the production of this movie a la Birdman. We will learn that WB was the reason why we couldn't find him and being charged to the guy. Can't wait for R*ddit to lose their mind over it.
That looks like such absolute ass. Like it looks expensive to animate, but it still ends up looking so bad and being incredibly grating and stupid.
Um actually
spoiler
They were taking the baby out of the microwave and the clip was reversed
Considering who's in charge, they'll figure out how to get theatrical releases to dogshit reality shows somehow.
I expect James Gunn will still get to make his Superman movie. I was kind of looking forward to the Swamp Thing movie, but I bet it will get cancelled or at best postponed, probably some other planned stuff that I can't remember.
Watch them murder the Harley Quinn show, the only DC property that's doing well and has a consistent fanbase asking for more content.
I've got no idea if its decent but I'm questioning if Blue Beetle is going to see the light of day. My only caveat is that I tihnk the tax writeoff thing they pulled with Batgirl is something they're not allowed to do again.
They went for the most obvious fail movie for some reason. Maybe a tax thing
Tbh the movie felt like a celebration of all of DC’s goofier nonsense, from 90s Batmen to the glory that is Nicholas Cage.
I'd like to imagine that if superhero movies start to fail we might go back to a slightly saner movie ecosystem, one with more room for 'normal' movies. Movies with reasonable budgets that make reasonable profits. But I can't really see that happening. So I can only imagine that there will be a major crisis and we see the wholesale collapse of some of these gigantic movie studios. Or else the worse possibility that the studios are too big to fail and instead the current trend gets worse and they wreck film as an artform altogether, as we get even worse movies made more cheaply for dwindling audiences or streaming/tax fraud.
I would settle for movies that tell a complete story within the time alloted to them
I want a begining a middle and an end all within an hour and a half
I don't even want a good movie just a movie that contains a complete narrative
Every movie is required by law to have one plot thread introduced and left unresolved in order to get everyone to think, "what about a sequel maybe?"
This gets people to say things like "I wish they would have done more with X" which increases engagement, a metric that does not matter for movies. Kino will forevermore live in the long shadow of series view bump ticket sales.
I was into comics before Superhero movies became a thing (or at least like, at the same time). The Cinematic universe stuff is just the comic book shared universeification of films and I like that. I like long ongoing stories. I want to write long ongoing stories. Idk I think its one of my autism tics because a LOT of people seem REALLY annoyed with the shared universe stuff in a way I just don't understand. I have an argument with someone who was like "no comics aren't like that the stories end" and I was like really? No? The same characters have been being used for like 50 years in comics.
But I haven't enjoyed any attempt at a Cinematic Universe that isn't the MCU or DC's animated one thats over now. So eh.
Yeah I think that works for comics but I don't think it works for movies. I like limericks but I don't think a song should only be 4 sentences long. Different artforms demand different ways of telling stories.
For a movie you demand over an hour of attention followed by a year or so of them doing something else. That's a medium where telling the complete story in the time your given is more important than comics where the next edition can be out next week
Yeah I can understand how it doesnt work in film for people but I stand by liking the MCU even post-Endgame where a lot of fans seem to have abandoned it. Idk maybe I'm just an easy lay for Capeshit (I am) but I like the shared universe stuff and returning characters. Like I'm a hyped up little baby that Ghost from Antman 2 is going to be in Thunderbolts. Shit like that gets me going.
in matters of taste the customer is always right. If you like the product you don't need to justify that to me you literally can't be wrong about what type of film you like
I would prefer there to be more films of the kind I like as well but in fairness those films do get made just not as much as I would like
They are already making borderlands movie and they are adapting the first game where the plot is just an excuse to play FPS diablo.
I was kind of looking forward to this as well because I like the flash. WB amazes me with how they should be close to Disney or on par with how many big name IP's they have. Instead they continue to flop and make dumbfuck decisions with what they have.
This actually makes Universal look impressive that it's the top film production company this year while having less big IP's than WB or Disney.
Step away from the lathe!
Theatrical premier reboot of Adults Adopting Adults
will eat it up.