Batman V Superman is the 4th BIGGEST movie opening EVER ahead of EVERY COMIC movie!

[NOSaintsFan02]

Smh at ppl making power point presentations about this shyt. This super hero shyt got out of hand

Film room been lit past few days. These dudes on both sides of the fence going ham.

I just sit back and enjoy the fun in the super hero movies.

 

[TheGodling]

so you don't think there's anyone hired to handle quality control? its just "hire this guy and let's hope he knows what he's doing?"

Nope, that's been their problem for a while now. Like I said, the construction behind WB Studios is that they tend to support guys who brought them success and trust their judgment. They don't really have any experience in handling a shared universe like the DCU, which is why they have pretty much continued to follow their usual model and trust their in-house guys to make these movies a success. That's one of the reasons that Suicide Squad is already looking completely different from BvS, because although they're both part of the "darker" DCU, Ayer is almost completely allowed to do his own thing with that movie.

 

[wire28]

They don't know. Even if there is someone that does, WB's biggest problem is that they have too many cooks in the kitchen. After the resurgence in the early 00s with movies like Blade, X-Men and Spider-Man (notice all three are Marvel?) WB caught on that comic book movies were profitable again (the last comic book movies WB had made were Steel and Batman & Robin), so they just gave out all the DC/Vertigo properties to their different associated production companies to get as many in production as possible. This is what lead to the releases of different movies like Catwoman, Batman Begins, Constantine, V For Vendetta and Superman Returns in 05/06 as well as sleeper hit 300 (not a DC property but still based on a comic book).

The only true successes were Batman Begins and 300, which is how Nolan and Snyder got the clout to do their next movies on their own terms (The Dark Knight and Watchmen), but with Avengers showing the next level of how much money could really be made, WB started looking into launching their own DCU after long time production on Justice League: Mortal had been cancelled. They tried to go for it with Green Lantern while their other production companies were still churning out unrelated shyt like The Losers and Jonah Hex. Since WB had no idea about how to handle a plan of this magniute, they promoted Geoff Johns to oversee the DCU creatively (in particular because he revived the Green Lantern comic book in the years before), but rumors suggested a lot of the big producers scoffed at some "comic book writer" handling multi-million dollar movies, so Johns never really got the clout like Kevin Feige had over at Marvel, everybody had their own ideas of what Green Lantern should be and then of course it flopped both critically and financially.

WB still had The Dark Knight Rises coming out and thus decided the DCU would be "officially" started after that release with 2013's Man Of Steel, appointing Zack Snyder (who had both financial success and fanbase praise because of 300 and Watchmen) and David Goyer (co-writer of the whole TDK trilogy) to become the new overseers as WB had started to retrieve all the properties they had handed out to production partners (a notable exception is Shazam, which is still partly in hands of New Line Cinema who have been very outspoken about the direction of Shazam being the one that both DC and they agree on). All the other DC movies will be produced under Ratpac Entertainment (WB's biggest production partner after Legendary Pictures departed to Universal).

So now we're here and although WB has managed to gather all their DC properties under one umbrella, it still isn't clear who's holding the umbrella. Goyer's pretty much out creatively (will stay on as a producer), Snyder's role as creative supervisor is on thin ice and Geoff Johns' role is still that of a glorified advisor, while their choices of directors (Ayer on Suicide Squad, Affleck on Batman, Wan on Aquaman and Lord & Miller on Flash) fall in the line of WB-guys the studio supports because of previous successes, which suggest the studio still doesn't know what it wants and is just betting on their in-house talent to get it right for them.

the knowledge drop

 

[wire28]

Since it's already started falling harder than expected that next week drop-off is going to tell the true box office story.

That next week drop off could actually get very spooky.

 

[Real]

I expect anywhere between a 40-50 percent drop-off

 

[Disgustya Stallone]

Is there a marvel movie that has had a simultaneous ww release? And what are you going to do if BvS total box office isn't up to the last 2 iron mans

424m > 390m

 

[Disgustya Stallone]

Because your own thread title says opening gross you fukking child

you are a bumbling idiot breh, perfect marvel stan

 

[RajWatts]

No you didn't

And if you did

boxofficemojo

OPENING WEEKENDS

• $50+ M
  
• $40-50m
  
• $30-40m
  
• $25-30m
  
• $20-25m
  
• $15-20m
  
• $10-15m

Note: Sort by Rank or any other column to view all wide releases.
Rank Title (click to view) Studio Opening* % of Total Theaters Avg. Total Gross^ Date**
1 Star Wars: The Force Awakens BV $247,966,675 26.6% 4,134 $59,982 $933,662,528 12/18/2015
2 Jurassic World Uni. $208,806,270 32.0% 4,274 $48,855 $652,270,625 6/12/2015
3 Marvel's The Avengers BV $207,438,708 33.3% 4,349 $47,698 $623,357,910 5/4/2012
4 Avengers: Age of Ultron BV $191,271,109 41.7% 4,276 $44,731 $459,005,868 5/1/2015
5 Iron Man 3 BV $174,144,585 42.6% 4,253 $40,946 $409,013,994 5/3/2013
6 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice WB $170,100,000 100.0% 4,242 $40,099 $170,100,000 3/25/2016
7 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 WB $169,189,427 44.4% 4,375 $38,672 $381,011,219 7/15/2011
8 The Dark Knight Rises WB $160,887,295 35.9% 4,404 $36,532 $448,139,099 7/20/2012
9 The Dark Knight WB $158,411,483 29.7% 4,366 $36,283 $533,345,358 7/18/2008
10 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire LGF $158,074,286 37.2% 4,163 $37,971 $424,668,047 11/22/2013

Just accept yo "L" breh

This is domestic opening gross, OP posted worldwide opening gross

 

[Arishok]

DC Stans stand up!!!!

 

[loyola llothta]

I hated Deadpool.

shyt was like a movie made for moutain dew drinkers.

 

[loyola llothta]

" however it should be noted that Marvel's The Avengers & Iron Man 3 both opened bigger domestically and unlike Batman v Superman, were released overseas on varying dates, including later releases in the ever-growing market of China. "

"Batman v Superman has set a new record for the worst Friday-to-Sunday drop for a superhero movie release in modern North American box office history. In dropping 55% from its $82 million Friday debut to its $37 million gross on Sunday, it pummeled all prior records for weakness in theatrical staying power. It even beat the nearly universally reviled and now long-forgotten Fantastic Four reboot, which dropped a comparatively modest 48% across its opening weekend in the summer of 2015."

 

[LinusCaldwell]

Easter tho

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

 

[Disgustya Stallone]

This is domestic opening gross, OP posted worldwide opening gross

these simple minded marvel fan boy can't read apparently

 

[Arishok]

these simple minded marvel fan boy can't read apparently

Can you imagine if this thread was the other way around?

Can't just let us have our W