DC is really dumb for not just making a "Harley Quinn" movie... EDIT: I was right! DC changes title!

[Norrin Radd]

Birds of Prey Changes Title After Box Office Struggles

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is changing its name to Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey on all theater chain sites after a struggle to fly at the box office in its opening weekend. The R-rated DC Comics movie, which had a lesser budget than most other major comic book films from DC or Marvel, opened to only $33.2 million at the domestic box office. Other R-rated comic book films in recent years such as Deadpool and Joker opened to more than $130 million and $90 million, respectively. Birds was not expected to reach such heights but was projected to earn closer to $50 million in its debut.

Conversations have swirled online about why Birds of Prey was not met with huge ticket sales in theaters of the first weekend in February, with much of the speculation pointing towards the R-rating hindering a younger audience from buying tickets. The film was met with impressive reviews, getting certified fresh on the review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes. It would seem the film was intended to be an R-rated romp but may have tested better with younger audiences, therefore never released a red band trailer or embraced its sometimes violent, often foul-mouthed adventure in its marketing.

ComicBook.com was among those offering up positive reviews for Birds of Prey. "The next step for DC films shows that the comic brand has an arsenal of characters that are tremendously interesting and should be explored further, but it does leave a lot of meat on the bone by focusing so heavily on the surefire box office draw that is Harley Quinn," the official review reads. "The film starts off slowly and finds its stride in the second act, with McGregor’s villain being the entertaining standout while underutilizing some of its other more interesting characters...It is entertaining and a great starting point for some new characters on the big screen."

Regal Cinemas and AMC Theaters have already updated the title to reflect the Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey title. Tickets are available from the theater chain, now.

Warner Brothers has not responded to ComicBook.com's request for comment at the time of publishing.

Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey is now playing in theaters.

Too late, WB. Far too late.

 

[HiiiPower]

OP made a lot of you look silly

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

Birds of Prey Changes Title After Box Office Struggles



Too late, WB. Far too late.

Damn even DC agreed with OP. Ain’t nothing more to say

Can we get him a banner that says “Marketing King”


Hold this rep sir

 

[Carlton Banks]

Damn even DC agreed with OP. Ain’t nothing more to say

Can we get him a banner that says “Marketing King”


Hold this rep sir

Respect

 

[Carlton Banks]

Birds of Prey Changes Title After Box Office Struggles



Too late, WB. Far too late.

This shyt is rafters status. Made everybody in here look goofy. Shout-out to the real ones who recognize real

 

[I AM WARHOL]

This thread reversal is legendary. Salute to OP

 

[Real]

How come they just cant make a simple movie based off something like this?

 

[x-factor7]

This thread reversal is legendary. Salute to OP

Had to rep OP, DC lurking this thread like "oh shyt, this dude is right"

 

[Bryan Danielson]

I remember when SMH trailer dropped.... the coli complaint was;
“Too much Ironman”
“He all up in the video”

Well HQ not only is all over the trailers of this, but she’s the sole voice in the voice over and the only character on the poster.

So how the fukk can people say they ain’t know she in this film??

 

[Switch]

Op was right

 

[(ALi)]

Damn even DC agreed with OP. Ain’t nothing more to say

Can we get him a banner that says “Marketing King”


Hold this rep sir

 

[Trojan 24]

Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey is actually perfect.

I just have a knack for marketing. When things don't make sense, like this movie roll out for instance, I can't help but

Breh done hit y'all boys with the one hitter quitter

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

I remember when SMH trailer dropped.... the coli complaint was;
“Too much Ironman”
“He all up in the video”

Well HQ not only is all over the trailers of this, but she’s the sole voice in the voice over and the only character on the poster.

So how the fukk can people say they ain’t know she in this film??

Nobody said they ain't know.. You completely missed the point... DC didn't tho

I mean really... In all my years on Earth, I have never heard of a movie getting it's name changed AFTER release... shyt is only a week old and they out here cutting off shyt. Again, never in history have I seen this happen to a movie.. And they did it to improve numbers

And also in my life, I've never ever heard a nikka say "You know, they should change the name of that movie and it'd do better numbers"



And these two things happened on the same damn movie... nah man. I'm mind boggled after that last article

 

[Trapperman Dave]

Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey is actually perfect.

I just have a knack for marketing. When things don't make sense, like this movie roll out for instance, I can't help but

I mean your pops is phillip banks, why wouldn’t you be good at marketing

 

[1thouwow]

It's still dumb... Nobody gives a fukk about the other co-stars. I couldn't even tell you who anyone else is besides black canary and I'm just a casual.

"Harley Quinn" would've been a bigger draw overall

You've made the classic mistake of speaking for everyone when you really mean yourself. Just cause you don't care doesn't mean others don't

Its gonna do numbers regardless

I look forward to seeing how far the goal posts get moved when it does

shyt getting spooky