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They literally added two more films to their big DC schedule going to 2020.
They seem committed to riding this trainwreck all the way to hell.
Lex Luthor. The thing early on in the movie where he
Also, did this movie actually just
the true litmus test would be them delaying Justice League or firing Zack Snyder
Like there's planning and then there's a need for a creative overhaul. They need to do the second thing and I hope they do.
Apparently not enough.
Plus Ward is
Like
700 million total is a pretty impressive gross for most films and sounds good on paper
But compared to other films of the same size and importance(Avengers, Iron Mans, etc.) , hell even other Batman films, it isn't very impressive and is even less so given that it had a 250-300 million production budget and, according to pretty reliable sources such as THR and Variety, an even larger advertising budget it definitely didn't make as much of an impact as you would think
It kind of didn't though? Not comparatively
On opening week-end there was absolutely a case to be made for "fans don't care about the reviews and eat this shit up" and I'm sure WB execs were giving each other high fives and calling meetings to tell everyone KEEP DOING WHAT YOU'RE DOING
but that unbelievable fall-off pretty clearly tells us no, the bad reviews are sinking this film, word of mouth is negative, people hate this movie and are telling each other not to see it, there's no money to be made in bad movies.
My current hope is that Oded Fehr's mystery villain in Most Wanted turns out to be Taskmaster
Tell that to the Transformographagizers movies
Those are huge in China.
BvS isn't.
That does nothing to change the fact that they are vey bad, very profitable movies, which is why I disagreed with the bolded statement. Clearly there *is* money to be made in bad movies
They just need to be bad movies with even a semblance of fun
BvS being utterly grim and humorless for 2.5 hours did.
Probably the first thing i've heard the movie improve on over Man of Steel
I've always liked their look a lot, but they show up so sporadically I've never really gotten to see if I like them as characters.
or I guess, Freeform? either way
It'll wind up written by James Robinson with art by Greg Land.
Yeah. Again, even Nolan's Bat-films had a bunch of little moments of levity
I think you could do completely humorless and have people come back to it? But the movie would have to be, y'know
Good
The combination of "bad" and "humorless" is what really sunk its potential
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Tarzan and Suicide Squad
Suicide Squad is a real toss-up, but Tarzan? Not a chance in hell that's breaking any box office records
I sincerely wonder what Warner Bros. does come next year
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That snuck up quick
..Heh, Dr. Strange and Fantastic Beasts will be in theaters at the same time.
Also "Tales of Suspense" for a digital comic.
DC is launching a new sub brand, Young Animals, spearheaded by Gerard Way and focused on telling modern, stylish stories from young up and coming creators. The flagship title is DOOM PATROL BY GERARD WAY AND NICK DERRINGTON.
The other launch titles are Shade: The Changing Girl by Cecil Castellucci and artist Marley Zarcone, Cave Carson has a Cybernetic Eye by Gerard Way and Jon Rivera with art by Michael Avon Oeming and Mother Panic written by Jody Houser, with art by Tommy Lee Edwards and John Paul Leon.
There's one extra in there for some reason.
They aren't gonna be expected to hit the same sales thresholds as the superhero titles and I doubt Way would be signed on to act as a sort of EiC for the line of they didn't agree to let it have some leg room
I guess I don't get the claim that Tarzan is inherently unable to break box office records. Is it based on anything in particular?
Tarzan
Like, it might be a good movie and do well but chances of it being a smash hit that demolishes records are...
Slim.
The "disappearing" pencil had me laughing my ass off.