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10 votes
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Superhero fatigue is real. The cure? Make better movies than ‘The Flash’
67 votes -
‘Superman: Legacy’: James Gunn taps David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan for Clark Kent and Lois Lane in DC Studios film
15 votes -
Inside the ‘Superman: Legacy’ screen tests as decision 2023 drags into second week
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Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse editor confirms there are multiple versions of the film currently in theaters
45 votes -
Warner Bros. needs to stop copying Disney and let its superheroes fly solo
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Twenty years later, Ang Lee's Hulk is a misunderstood triumph of superhero cinema
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Kraven the Hunter | Official red band trailer
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The Flash in a pan
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'The Flash' projected to earn $155-165m worldwide, $70m domestic opening weekend
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‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ beats ‘Spider-Man’ with $61m box office opening
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‘Superman: Legacy’ in-person screen tests on the horizon as Warner Bros and James Gunn get closer to finding Clark Kent and Lois Lane
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Discussion thread
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem | Official trailer
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A week in the life of playing Nebula in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
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The Flash | Final trailer
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Comic fans GOTG 3 thoughts?
Any big Comic fans here? anyone see GOTG3 yet? I'm going on the 13th, didn't have time to get to it till then. No Spoilers, please just curious what everyone thinks. Was wondering were you would...
Any big Comic fans here? anyone see GOTG3 yet? I'm going on the 13th, didn't have time to get to it till then.
No Spoilers, please just curious what everyone thinks.
Was wondering were you would rank it in the MCU.
My top three for Solo Films
Captain America Winter Solider
Captain America Civil War
Thor RagnarökTop Avengers
Infinity War and EndgameDoes GOTG3 beat Civil War or Winter Solider ? I hear its better than two but I don't think that's hard to do. GOTG 2 is the weakest of the first two for sure.
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The age of the superhero is over
So instead of just posting a link to the opening weekend of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 (which is looking to open in the low 110s) I thought I'd just make a post talking about the recent box...
So instead of just posting a link to the opening weekend of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 (which is looking to open in the low 110s) I thought I'd just make a post talking about the recent box office of super-hero movies and the fatigue going on with general audiences.
Let's rewind to the far distant past of December 2021. Spider-Man: No Way Home just opened to over 200 million dollars. It re-invigorates movie going among the general public. Grosses at the box office afterwards are vastly higher. Spider-Man makes nearly two billion dollars at the box office. The next super-hero movie to come out is Batman, which does pretty well considering it's the first entry in a rebooted series.
Then, the summer movie season kicks off with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Seemingly, the movie is heading towards a 200+ opening weekend (much like Spider-Man). The film was sold as a follow-up to No Way Home, but in reality it had little to nothing to do with that movie. General audiences caught on, and were overall mixed on the film, so the opening weekend landed under 200 million. The film ultimately went on to gross over 900 million at the box office, but with terrible legs.
The next film after that was Thor: Love and Thunder. Again, the film garners a mixed reception with both critics and audiences. It ultimately grosses less than it's predecessor Thor: Ragnarok (although L&T did not open in China or Russia). It did okay all things considered, but it was another poorly received entry in the franchise.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever comes out in November with much better reception. Although it still ended up dropping 500 million worldwide from it's predecessor (300 domestic). Again, considering this was dealing with the loss of it's star, it did okay all things considered. Still, it was a disappointment compared to what it was expected to make and the critical reception was weaker than anticipated.
Then the big dumpster fire happens. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is released. It gets the MCU's second rotten score on RT, and gets the worst audience reception of the series since Eternals. The film manages to get the highest opening of the Ant-Man franchise, but with terrible reception it also gets the worst legs of the MCU. It ends up with the lowest gross of the Ant-Man movies despite opening higher than both of them.
The GA got burned from a constant flood of mediocre product (and we're not even talking about all the TV shows).
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3, despite much better reception than most recent MCU films, is ending up with a lower opening than it's predecessor, and will most likely end up with a lower gross than the first film. This is referred to as "paying for the sins of the father."
This will be the lowest May opener since The Amazing Spider-Man 2 opened in 2014 (not counting 2020 or 2021).
Super-hero movies will still be around, and some of them might make a lot of money, but it's clear the utter dominance it had at the box office for the past 10 years is over. Which is kind of insane to think about how quickly this all came crumbling down (only 1.5 years!). But it goes to show there's a limit to how many mediocre/bad movies the GA can handle in a franchise.
And this isn't even counting how poorly both Shazam and Black Adam did for DC.
It seems like Quantumania might have been the "Heaven's Gate" for the MCU, it was the straw that broke the camels back.
So what will happen with super-hero movies? Probably a return to the pre-Avengers normal. Mainline superheroes (like Batman and Spider-Man) will remain lucrative. But lesser known superheroes are now riskier bets, and if those lesser known heroes are in a bad movie, there's no saving it. Logically, budgets for these movies should get lower to accommodate the lower grosses bound to happen from now on. And there needs to be actual effort put into the film in order to make it a good film first and foremost.
Unfortunately for the MCU, many of the movies slated for 2024 were greenlit before they could change direction (like Captain America: New World Order which went into production a few months ago). The budgets for these films are probably going to be really high like they've all been (200M+) and the grosses will get even lower as these movies were not given proper re-writes to right the ship.
As for DC, it puts a lot of pressure on Gunn to make Superman a good movie. And not just a good super-hero movie, but a good movie. Like how Batman Begins was just a good movie.
Hollywood is now looking towards video game movies as the next big thing, thanks to the massive success of Mario, so these movies are going to have to build themselves back up.
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Fifteen years after 'Iron Man,' the MCU has lost what made its debut so special
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‘The Flash’ dazzles exhibitors at CinemaCon: “Emotional…some people crying…the movie will have legs”
4 votes -
The Flash | Official trailer 2
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'Kraven the Hunter' is Sony’s first R-rated Marvel movie
3 votes -
The Marvels | Teaser trailer
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‘Shazam 2’ losses estimated at over $150 million
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Shazam 2 and the birth of the lame duck superhero movie
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‘Shazam! Fury Of The Gods’ director “surprised” with film criticism, reveals he’s “definitely done with superheroes”
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It’s the end of DC as we know it
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem | Teaser trailer
9 votes -
‘Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania’ faces the worst second weekend drop for an MCU film
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‘Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania’ swells to franchise record opening of $118M 4-day
6 votes -
The Flash | Official trailer
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 | New trailer
9 votes -
'Ant-Man: Quantumania' won't stream on Disney Plus for weeks (or months), sorry. Disney has been stretching out the time that films spend only in theaters
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DC Studios announces slate of ten new film and television projects
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James Gunn writing Superman movie - the project will focus on the hero in his younger days, and will star an actor other than Henry Cavill
9 votes -
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse | Official trailer
10 votes -
The Rock's Black Adam box office damage control is embarrassing
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Patty Jenkins‘ ‘Wonder Woman 3’ not moving forward as DC movies hit turning point
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 | Official trailer
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Marvel fans showing franchise fatigue, while DC fans more likely to prefer single superhero over universe, says new Fandom study
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | Official trailer
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Marvel, DC among last bastion for supersized paydays
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Hugh Jackman is back as Wolverine in ‘Deadpool 3’ with Ryan Reynolds
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Secret ‘Batgirl’ screenings hit the Warner Bros. lot
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Warner Bros. weighing fate of ‘The Flash’ as its Ezra Miller problem grows
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With next phases set, Marvel homes in on directors
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‘Avengers: The Kang Dynasty’ to be directed by ‘Shang-Chi’ filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton
5 votes -
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | Official teaser
8 votes -
Shazam! Fury of the Gods | Official trailer 1
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Are critics and audiences starting to sour on Marvel movies?
16 votes