3_Octave_Fart
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That's the thing, it's not fun. The movie is joyless.
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Yes, but the payoff is huge.
The making of the next two or three Star Wars movies is basically paid for.
Snyder and Affleck don't care, they make their big bucks and the next creative team(s) have to worry about sustainability.
It sounds like the idea that it needs to clear $1B to be considered a winner is more about "beating" the MCU and Star Wars type franchises. The movie was budgeted at $260M and even if they put in $150M, the film basically broke even at the box office this weekend with an opening of $420M worldwide. Between box office and merchandising, there's no way the movie will lose money.I understand the payoff is huge, but you're really just betting on longshots, which is a long-term losing strategy.
Of course Snyder and Affleck don't care, they get theirs. The studio and its investors have money only the line, so for them it should be a concern.
I don't hold any financial interest, so I don't really care. I just don't get the business model. It seems like bad business to sink so much into the product upfront that one piece of the franchise needs to bring in $1 billion to make it a winner.
I'm starting to think it's really just the media reporting that's nonsensical.
It sounds like the idea that it needs to clear $1B to be considered a winner is more about "beating" the MCU and Star Wars type franchises. The movie was budgeted at $260M and even if they put in $150M, the film basically broke even domestically at the box office this weekend with an opening of $420M. Between worldwide box office and merchandising, there's no way the movie will lose money.
I've seen the marketing costs cited at $150M in a few places, though none of them attributed that number to the studios, so I'm not sure if it's speculation.Good points, and kind of what I mean by the reporting that is nonsense.
If this movie doesn't hit $1 billion, it can still make money. It might be disappointing without being a failure.
It seems like the reporting is just constantly centered around box office records rather than profitability.
It's also difficult to determine financial success as an outsider because we don't know marketing costs, which have to be insane for this movie.
I think people some people might be tired of the constant re-booting of Batman and Superman vehicles with different leads. Christian Bale nailed it for a generation, so why reboot it so soon? The Dark Knight trilogy only freaking ended four years ago. Bale's portrayal is still too fresh in my mind to even care about some new portrayal. And how many people have played Superman in the last decade? Word of mouth gets me to go see comic book movies, and none of the recent Superman movies have done that.
Batman vs. Superman? The premise alone is cringe-worthy. The Superman movie where Christopher Reeve went bad and hit the bottle was the worst one.
DC is actually on a pretty similar timeline with its rollout as Marvel was. Marvel released Iron Man in 2008 and Avengers in 2012. During that span, they introduced Iron Man, Hulk, Thor and Captain America as headliners in solo films.Cringe-worthy? It has been done many times in the comics, including one of the most beloved Batman stories ever written, the Dark Knight Returns.
To answer your question about how many people have played Superman in the last decade, if you mean live action movies, that would be two. And it is just barely two because Routh's version came out in June of 2006. Now if you want to get into television and animation, the number goes way up, but I don't think Smallville or the Timmverse have much of an impact here.
It sounds like the real issue wasn't the rebooting of Batman. It was the rush to put out an Avengers type movie rather than slowly building the DCU the way Marvel did with its movies.