It has, but because it didn't make over $500 million or something some people will claim that it's a sign of decline in superhero movies. Those that understand will obviously know that Ant-Man did very well considering its budget and audience.

@bolded: Exactly. I think it honestly did much better than expected. I was expecting much worse until reviews said it was actually a good movie. 

You can look at this thread and already see a few people using this movie as "evidence" to support the idea that superhero movies are going to decline soon.

I hope this flops.

Not just because I want to see Marvel/Disney get the rights but because it comes off like a movie that hates being a superhero movie.

Oh, you could tell they were really pushing for that, too.  They made sure the big Marvel logo was the first thing you see in every trailer.  Hoping to piggyback off the Avengers, no doubt. 

Unfortunately, it seems Marvel tried to do that themselves with the Ant-Man movie.  All trailers I have seen just make that look like a mediocre movie.  It definitely isn't making Marvel any money, at least not til it releases on DVD/Bluray.  Probably break even at the box office when all is said and done.  Marvel just needs to be careful of not flooding the theatres with cheap movies that don't exactly respect the source material, just trying to make a quick buck on the name.  Otherwise the hype will die for the superhero genre.  I don't think they will do that, but man, are other studios trying to.

No way man. Ant-Man is already well past break even. Marvel/Disney was smart enough to have modest expectations for it, so they gave it the lowest budget out of all MCU movies to date. That means it got past break even at about the $260 million point, and now Ant-Man is over $300 million with a few more weeks of reasonable box office receipts to go. I think the box office taking should give Disney about $30-50 million in profit.According to the industry rule of thum Dosney's already profited about $15 million from Ant-Man. So they've made over 10% return, not bad.

Agreed.  I've been sick of fuckin' superhero movies since the first Avengers movie came out.  Enough is enough.

Try to think of something original Hollywood, if you dare.

P.S. -  I hope Batman vs. Superman as well as the stupid Tarzan movie tank as well next year.  Fuck superhero movies.

I would rather have a dozen decent superhero movies than have Hollywood attempt to be original anymore. Their current idea of originality is making sequels to 20 year old movies, while on the side, they maintain the idea of rebooting things that don't need rebooting. After movies have continued to evolve for over 100 years from their humble beginnings, we're hitting the point where it's hard as hell to produce something we see as original that we don't also see as crap.

Never seen anything with Miles Teller in it but Michael B. Jordan was pretty good in Fruitvale Station.

That's what they get for killing Doom. Now the movie is Doomed. :p

No it hasn't.  They are only seeing about 55% or so (maybe lower for foreign markets) from the reciepts.  And that is only for the first few weeks, then the percentage begins to drop.  Add in marketing budget and there is no way they are break even on a filming budget of $130M with ~$165M from ticket revenue.  Probably closing in on it, but trust me, they were hoping that movie did better.  Not sure we'll see an Ant-Man 2.

It's even worse when you compare it to something that had even less name recognition and a little higher budget ($170M), Guardians of the Galaxy.  It went on to make $774M WW, so they probably took home ~$425M, or $255M profit.  They aren't seeing any kind of return like that with Ant-Man.