Snowglobe of Doom posted:

They rolled back 'midnight' screenings to 9pm and then 7pm in 2013, the year after The Avengers which greatly improved the audience numbers for those previews. Before then the Fri-Sun weekends didn't include Thursdays at all, since then they've pretty much added an extra day's worth of box office receipts to their opening totals.

SnipeShow posted:

Thor 2 is a much better movie if you imagine Kat Dennings as Loki in disguise.

He is just running around kissing dudes and getting into hijinks.

ImpAtom posted:

To be fair that's the arc of every MCU character except Captain America.

Steve2911 posted:

Tony Stark never becomes less of a jerk though.

CelticPredator posted:

Honestly, I'm still trying to figure out what I'm saying because I feel like BvS broke me, kinda? There's something about that whole movie that bothered me on a deep level and I'm trying to wrack my brain around it. Like, outside of the editing, the film makes me feel just awful. And it's not really about killing or not killing, but about character, ultimately. And how Superman's character just doesn't jive with me.

Snowman_McK posted:

Based on this and your many other posts in the thread, you should probably just be very careful about the media you consume, because you seem to take it to heart in very strange ways. Getting genuinely upset (I'm kind of inferring there) because the villain of a film threatened to do something terrible is showing an astonishing capacity for empathy. If movies where Superman saves everyone (albeit at cost) leave you feeling hopeless, you may want to think very hard about going to see movies.

CelticPredator posted:

Please judge me as a human some more.

Also, I'd rather make movies tbh.

CelticPredator posted:

Only two movies have done that though. And those two were both directed by Zack Snyder. That man has a way of making me hate something I normally quite enjoy.

To me, it's like going to a party, but no one telling you it's a funeral. I kinda prefer the party tbh.

Hat Thoughts posted:

Barenaked Ladies huh?

Phylodox posted:

Kulkasha posted:

Edit: What was the deal with the critics? Normally there would be a more even spread of opinions for a movie that made this much money, irregardless of quality. It's like the exact reverse of what happened with Dragon Age 2, the disconnect is bizarre.

Jenny Angel posted:

Batman v Superman, for example, is not made in lighthearted jest. It is, instead, grimdark

Phylodox posted:

I mean...if absolutely nothing else, Thor 2 has Idris Elba murdering a spaceship singlehanded, and that's not nothing.

Davros1 posted:

[quote="Snowglobe of Doom" post="457961976"]
Superman II back in 1980 was operating under standard superhero/action movie rules so when he killed Zod that time he looked like this:

... but when the DCCU Superman kills Zod he looks like this:

MoS wasn't trying to be standard comicbook/action movie and it instead decided to question the cliched comicbook resolution by asking "What if you can't neatly make the problem go away? What if you don't get the triumphant happy ending? What if the good guy doesn't have all the answers just because he's the good guy?"


It's more interesting that the Superman II photo is of a Superman, when confronted by a problem he couldn't out punch, instead resorted to outsmarting the villains together with Lois Lane after which they killed all three of them. MoS took a "more humane" approach where Lois uses her knowledge to warp them back into the Phantom Zone except for Zod, who is killed by Superman like in Superman II.

Barry Convex posted:

...no, the chart isn't wrong per se. You're just wrong to think that it's anything but common practice to include Thursday night previews in Friday grosses. Neither of the Avengers films, or IM3, or TDKR, or now BvS, made anywhere near as much in a single day as that chart would have it.

Neo Rasa posted:

Zombie Boat posted:

Senator Purrington. That's a character in a hugely successful movie that includes superhuman violence and explosions.

Sir Kodiak posted:

Played by real-life Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, no less.

Zombie Boat posted:

Senator Purrington.

Zombie Boat posted:

Senator Purrington. That's a character in a hugely successful movie that includes superhuman violence and explosions.

A True Jar Jar Fan posted:

I saw BvS with someone who argued that there's no Christ imagery in the film and that I'm making it up and it's just left me really confused. I loved Jesse Eisenberg.

computer parts posted:

Now you know who scenes like this are for:

computer parts posted:

Now you know who scenes like this are for:

computer parts posted:

With Dragon Age 2, it was significantly different from the first game but it wasn't really that different for a Bioware RPG, or even an RPG in general. Also there's a lot of shilling in the video game industry, but that's a separate topic.

Skwirl posted:

The thing about including Thursday in the Friday totals that it made sense when the only Thursday showings started at 11:59 pm. I saw BvS at 630 pm on Thursday, that's 3 separate showings before Friday I don't think any of the other movies you mention in your post had 3 extra showings on Thursday (actually 6 where I saw it, because they had 2 screens, one 3d, one 2d). Star Wars is the only other movie I can think of that had that many early screenings, and that's loving Star Wars, of course it was going to make all the loving money.

bring back old gbs posted:

Aw man it turns out like...the president is some sort of..uh, super Hydra! All the regular old hydra guys will never see it coming when it turns out the real Hydra is extra evil now. The stakes have been raised.

Mordiceius posted:

Dragon Age 2 is a horrifically bad game and could be considered the video game equivalent of a war crime.

Boob Marley posted:

Here is the full chart. Use it to create your opinions/feelings.

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How ‘Batman V Superman’ Will Turn A Profit Despite Critical Kryptonite

Warner Bros.’ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice might come up $3.7M million short of breaking even in its global theatrical run. However, the first title in DC features 2.0., which was blasted by critics with a 29% Rotten score and given a B CinemaScore from audiences, likely will turn a minimum profit of $207.9M once all revenue streams are accounted. Warner Bros provided no comment about BvS projections. Financial analysts today assembled a bare-minimum projection for the Zack Snyder movie, which is projected to turn in a domestic B.O. of $375M (2.25 times its $166M FSS) and a global take of $925M.

“It will not make a profit in the way that Zootopia (global B.O. $698M, cost $150M) or Deadpool (global B.O. $746M, cost $58M) have,” said our source. We’ve heard that any B.O. figure north of $800M was considered a good start for DC movies 2.0. Some sources think there’s a possibility that BvS could hit $1B globally, and that’s because nothing is standing in the pic’s way. Disney’s live-action/CGI version of The Jungle Book debuts April 8 in Australia, Argentina, Russia and Southeast Asia (15% of foreign) before touching down April 15 stateside. Seventy percent of international will bow day-and-date with U.S. Universal’s The Huntsman: Winter’s War starts its journey abroad in 24 territories on April 6 and lands in U.S./Canada and everywhere else April 22.

Currently, exhibitors are projecting a 65% decline for BvS this weekend, or $74.7M (we heard some exhibitors weren’t overly thrilled, but if it’s making money, that’s not going to stop them from showing it). In regards to its tracking,The Jungle Book conceivably could open to $62M in No. 1 stateside, fueled by female and older male quadrants. Last year, after F7 opened over Easter weekend, it held the top spot for four frames until Avengers: Age of Ultron launched the summer.

In the rundown below, foreign rentals are figured at 40%, while U.S./Canadian money comes back to Burbank at an average 55% of domestic B.O. We’ve also heard that worldwide P&A rose from $150M to $165M at the last minute “because Warner Bros had to make sure this picture opened,” said another source. Pricey P&A is never a bad thing: It means that the studio gave a drat and invested in the movie. Had it not spent, and BvS didn’t open, then that would be bad.

Global home entertainment revenues (that includes SVOD) for BvS are estimated at $260M, which would be less than the $311M made by Age of Ultron. Worldwide TV revenue at $135M would also be estimated to be under Ultron‘s $143M total TV take. Participations and residual payouts to the BvS cast are estimated at $92.4M, which is $10M less than Ultron. The chart is below. Note, this is before any merchandising is taken into consideration. Three years ago, The Licensing Letter weighed global retails sales for Batman and Superman at $771M combined.