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crissindahouse on 30 April 2016
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spurgeonryan said:
crissindahouse said:

Yes, let's compare older movies which have only Batman or Superman in it and from a time where China was nothing to talk about with a movie from 2016, a time where we will get some billion sellers every single year and with Batman and Superman fighting against each other. As if such a clash between these two wouldn't get the interest of many more people as long as the movie would be good.

If movies like Deadpool could beat BvsS (in theory, it didn't release in China and has 100m+ less revenue because of this) you realize how "low" BvsS numbers are even if it will make a ton of money.

BvsS with a good quality as billion seller was a pretty sure bet, the numbers from release show this as well but then there was word of mouth and it dropped like a rock. Even the first Sunday already shows this, it dropped already so short after release and as longer the movie was out as more people told their friends that it's nothing they need to see.

The only good thing which happend to this movie was the first days WW before people could tell their friends to rather stay at home...that saved the movie, money form people who didn't know much about the quality^^

Actually The Dark Knight Rises made 3 million less in China than BvsS. If we wanted to go that route. Lets not forget that a lot of people really liked the movie. Some even on this site, more than a few, watched it multiple times. So you can bash a movie all you want, but there comes a point when everyone must admit that people like different things. Look at the recent Star Fox game for instance. Personally hate it. Others seem to be in love with it.

 

 

Now, according to most sites this movie will not make it to 900 million anymore. Disappointing. But still decent. I know the marketing was high. I see movies like The Jungle Book getting just a small fraction of the marketing BvsS got, which amazes me. That movie is making bank! But BvsS marketing went on for six months! They spent way too much!

 

Last week BvsS made about 8 million over the weekend in the international market. About five million domestically. If we are lucky it will push out another 10-20 million in the international market and the same domestic. I guess depending on how long each area lets it limp along will tell us how much it is going to make. But Civil War next weekend will most likely kill it. Amazing that Captain America, which in my opinion had a horrible start, is now going to easily crush and probably slam past a billion due to Iron Man.

 

In case anyone is following the Star Wars thread it is still being updated and seems to push out a million each week or so. By the time it gets totally out of theaters it could add another million. Still not enough to take out Avatar, but very impressive!

Dark Knight Rises made obviously less in China as BvsS, because the Chinese cinema market is growing like crazy (more than quadrupled in the last 5 years, DKR released 4 years ago). That's exactly why I'm mentioning China all the time...If the Chinese market of some years ago would have been the same as it is in 2016, then many more movies would have made more as BvS will make. If Dark Knight Rises or many other movies which people mention from the past to show how "good" BvsS is doing. No, considering the market situation of 2016 which gives BvsS a big advantage compared to movies released some years ago, BvsS isn't doing that great.

And well, it's not as if I want to bash BvsS for any stupid reasons. I'm not one of these Marvel vs DC fanboys or anything (I mean, The Dark Knight destroys all other movies from Marvel). I just look realistically on the market we have now and for this market, anything below $1bn is really low for a huge movie where Batman and Superman clash against each other. 

The move will surely make a nice profit, but it will make less in ticket sales and less in later sales on disc as it could have made if people would like it more. The movie will probably fall to a 6.x on IMDB after 500k+ votes, this is not great for a super expensive superhero movie. Word of mouth wasn't that great and only the huge launch without word of mouth saved the movie from even less revenue.