Astral Dog
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Wonder Woman has surpassed Suicide Squad and BvS domestic Box Office
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Really,? hint, puddin
Sgt. Kabukiman
Banned
Never would have thought that this was even remotely possible.
My optimistic prediction for the US was around 250 million I believe.
Now, I'm prepared for Aquaman to shatter my expectations as well. And if it does, I will give all credit to Black Manta, supreme asshole emperor of the seas.
My optimistic prediction for the US was around 250 million I believe.
Now, I'm prepared for Aquaman to shatter my expectations as well. And if it does, I will give all credit to Black Manta, supreme asshole emperor of the seas.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
YAYUHH
I have zero faith in JL being good. Trailers don't inspire much hope.
TangoAlphaLima
Member
Yeah, but why was Harley Quinn such a bit hit? She was created about 25 years ago in BTAS, yet the general public didn't even know she existed.
Did the costume redesign really capture people? Was it Margot Robbie? I dunno, just seems like a surprising reason for Suicide Squad to have done well, given the anonymity of the character to the general public beforehand.
lol damn
BvS may have been critically lambasted, did less numbers, and just wasn't as good as Wonder Woman, yes. But hating on the movie is a boring and tired cliché at this point.
So Wonder Woman told an inspiring tale featuring a powerful immigrant freshly introduced and seeing our world for the first time, and that's good, and people needed it.
BvS told a dark tale of an immigrant who has always been here, was a part of our world from the inside and felt he belonged, who then revealed his true power, and lost that sense of belonging when he saw how the America around him recoiled in fear.
I have the sense that if these movies grow shallow and weary the audience of their escapism, people will look back on BvS more kindly.
This attempt to rehabilitate the movie is just as boring and tired.
Any day
I'd probably ascribe it to Harley Quinn's relationship with the Joker, which was something advertised in the trailers. So "puddin" is quite accurate - not so much Harley Quinn, but that she's the Joker's girlfriend.
Damn, WW really killing it, that's truly great to hear for so many reasons.
Somehow I don't think Marvel really gives a fuck how they make it to a billion lol...
Somehow I don't think Marvel really gives a fuck how they make it to a billion lol...
From the trailers of SM
(i know it's probably sony being sony)
Bobby Roberts
Banned
I was saying this in the BO thread yesterday, but: Marketing teams like to brag about that worldwide number because it's really, really big. But studios care way more about that domestic number.
Hitting a billion is good for fans building brickbats to swing over artificial rivalries.
Clearing $400mil domestic makes the studio a lot more money than clearing $400mil international.
Hitting a billion is good for fans building brickbats to swing over artificial rivalries.
Clearing $400mil domestic makes the studio a lot more money than clearing $400mil international.
TangoAlphaLima
Member
To add to it while it is different for each movie and is not exact but genrally movies make around 40- 50% of the domestic box office
Less so in the international markets,IIRC in china and what is used to estimate for global market in those entertainment articles it would be around 25%
Damn, swatting flies with sledgehammers
BvS may have been critically lambasted, did less numbers, and just wasn't as good as Wonder Woman, yes. But hating on the movie is a boring and tired cliché at this point.
So Wonder Woman told an inspiring tale featuring a powerful immigrant freshly introduced and seeing our world for the first time, and that's good, and people needed it.
BvS told a dark tale of an immigrant who has always been here, was a part of our world from the inside and felt he belonged, who then revealed his true power, and lost that sense of belonging when he saw how the America around him recoiled in fear.
I have the sense that if these movies grow shallow and weary the audience of their escapism, people will look back on BvS more kindly.
BvS may have been critically lambasted, did less numbers, and just wasn't as good as Wonder Woman, yes. But hating on the movie is a boring and tired cliché at this point.
So Wonder Woman told an inspiring tale featuring a powerful immigrant freshly introduced and seeing our world for the first time, and that's good, and people needed it.
BvS told a dark tale of an immigrant who has always been here, was a part of our world from the inside and felt he belonged, who then revealed his true power, and lost that sense of belonging when he saw how the America around him recoiled in fear.
I have the sense that if these movies grow shallow and weary the audience of their escapism, people will look back on BvS more kindly.
BrutishMrFish
Member
It also told the tale of a crazed billionaire who tried to get a senator to drink his urine.
Pandora012
Member
Kinda weird since she had the super successful tv show. Well not that weird....
I hope for everyone's sake that studio brass realizes that having the movie be good rather than just jamming a bunch of shit into it can help box office figures.
If I went down a list of comic book characters who should be used as a vehicle to tell a dark and depressing tale of angst and hatred and inner conflict, Superman would probably be very last on the list. Last.
If I went down a list of comic book characters who should be used as a vehicle to tell a dark and depressing tale of angst and hatred and inner conflict, Superman would probably be very last on the list. Last.
Probably the most believable part of the film.
Glad this is doing so well I really enjoyed it. Looking forward to the sequel, hope Aquaman beats expectations as well.
Beer Monkey
Member
Imagine how much it would have made if not for the massive MRA boycott.
Probably the same impact as the Mad Max and Star Wars boycott
Y'all both know Zatanna is next.
Good for Warner and WW. I guess this is what happens when you finally make a good movie.
Let's not get too ahead of ourselves here. I still think GotG2 has WW beat. Even then, let's see any DC movie match Civil War or the Avengers movies.
Let's not get too ahead of ourselves here. I still think GotG2 has WW beat. Even then, let's see any DC movie match Civil War or the Avengers movies.
Strangelove77
Member
Good. Hopefully from here on out this whole universe will shift direction.
Still boggles my mind how anyone could fuck up Batman and Superman together on the big screen for the first time. Considering all the comic books out there with these two, it almost writes and directs itself.
Still boggles my mind how anyone could fuck up Batman and Superman together on the big screen for the first time. Considering all the comic books out there with these two, it almost writes and directs itself.
WW is the best super hero movie I've seen in quite a fucking while.
Really glad it turned out as well as it did.
I really didn't like anything to do with WW in BvS.
WW team proved me very wrong there and I'm pretty glad they did.
That meshes well with the immigrant losing all kind of sense that he belongs in the place he lived all his life...
Really glad it turned out as well as it did.
I really didn't like anything to do with WW in BvS.
WW team proved me very wrong there and I'm pretty glad they did.
That meshes well with the immigrant losing all kind of sense that he belongs in the place he lived all his life...
hendersonhank
Member
Moviegoers aren't choosing one or the other. Wonder Woman making a ton of money isn't going to keep Spiderman from doing the same.
How about Madam Xanadu instead
Same, Wonder Woman being a good movie is just an ideal situation after how bad the rest of the dc movies have been. I still have very little faith on any of the rest of the DC movies coming out but at least I can be happy with Wonder Woman.
I just let people say they dumb shit, let them cook with their weird and sad fanboy shit
That massive boycott probably had about the same amount of people as Cyborg has fans so I doubt it made much of an impact at all.
YesNOnoNOYes
Member
I love wondy and I'm glad it's doing so well 
:>
Here's looking forward to more hits than misses from dceu! 👍
Now y'all dceu bros of mine, time to acknowledge my superior tastes and stop hating at me from when I told y'all that wondy > bvs
:>
Here's looking forward to more hits than misses from dceu! 👍
Beer Monkey
Member
Actually, it's about sarcasm in thread comments.
I sad goddamn
BvS' thematic ambitions won't ever escape the utter failure of execution.BvS may have been critically lambasted, did less numbers, and just wasn't as good as Wonder Woman, yes. But hating on the movie is a boring and tired cliché at this point.
So Wonder Woman told an inspiring tale featuring a powerful immigrant freshly introduced and seeing our world for the first time, and that's good, and people needed it.
BvS told a dark tale of an immigrant who has always been here, was a part of our world from the inside and felt he belonged, who then revealed his true power, and lost that sense of belonging when he saw how the America around him recoiled in fear.
I have the sense that if these movies grow shallow and weary the audience of their escapism, people will look back on BvS more kindly.
I think all JL has to do to break a billion is, at the very least, be an okay movie.
Reeves' Batman will either pass a billion or get really close.
Superman is in this weird poace where he is one of the most recognizable heroes worldwide, yet no-one feels confident in saying his solo movies can pass that billion mark.
I so badly want something like All-Star Superman on the big screen.
The reason you always see people saying they think Supes is boring is because he hasn't been done justice on-screen since Reeves, and that movie, imo, hasn't aged well.
SamuelSupreme
Banned
Wow its like a good movie with a diverse cast that appealed to differebt sets of people...made a difference? No way!
jacob armitage
Banned
Regardless of quality, i did not expect that to happen. Absolutely fantastic!
MugiwaraCole
Member
I don't understand being so surprised by this movie surpassing BvS and SS. Anyone genuinely THAT shocked is denying that lack of quality is what stopped BvS from reaching a billion. I'd argue it only made as much as it did off name brand alone. Hell, I thought it looked like shit in the trailers and sounded like shit from interviews and everything was telling me to stay away, and even I HAD to see it in theaters.
lol
lol