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Okie_Loki on 23 April 2016
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DakonBlackblade said:
Guitarguy said:

Will get close to the 900 million box office mark worldwide. Of course, the studio will recieve just under half(40-45%) of the total gross, with the cinemas taking the remainder. Considering the production budget is being reported as being 250 million as well as the supposed 150 million worldwide marketing budget, the movie won't be considered a success for Warner Brothers. Just breaking even or making a slight profit is essentially a waste of time considering those efforts could have been utilized elsewhere. WB need to manage their budgets better. Tone down the CGI, ground the movie down slightly and streamline the script so audiences don't get mental fatigue(the movie went for much too long and infused too many concepts in order to set up Justice League). 250 million budget is ridiculous considering Deadpool was made with something like 60 million and looks as good and was a much more enjoyable movie. That movie made 800 million worldwide. Go figure.

There are articles saying exactly what you are saying here, anyone with any critical sense will agree with you, and yet fans will clain because itll end up making somewhere around 860-880 M worldwide it was a smashing sucess. Ppl realy need to put the box office of this movie in perspective, its like if the first Avengers movie had made 850M worldwide, Disney wouldve shut down the MCU on the spot. Only reason Warner wont do the same and reboot the whole thing is because they can´t afford to,  they already made too many mistakes with Super Heroes movies, they don´t have public trust anymore, they need to get what they started, turn it around and make it work.

The Avengers isn't a fair comparison in any way, and I think you should realize that considering how well thought your post is. 

How well established was the MCU when the first Avengers broke? 6 films? 7? This is the SECOND film in the DCEU - Green Lantern would have been first but they're scratching that entirely and rebooting. Man of Steel was the ONLY stepping stone for BvS and for it to reach $800 million IS a success in its own right. And for such a success Deadpool was and how Marvel fans are screamimg about it, BvS surpassed it WW already. Of course, we can't deny how sluggish this has been since week 1, but it wasn't a complete failure either. It'll inch close to $900 million which is impressive no matter how you spin it. Do I agree that in many ways this should have easily hit $1 billion? Yes, and I do blame some of that on Snyder and the critics reactions to the film. If the film had even 50% favorable reviews, it'd probably be over $900 million this weekend. It was slaughtered by critics (right or wrong), and it's up to WB to learn from BvS and make Justice League and the rest of the DCEU better.