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.
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.