BvS Batman V Superman Box Office Prediction - - - - - - - Part 16

[Flint Marko]

Not in this case, really.

Aside from the joy you might feel in having the chance to lump FFINO together with BvS, there isn't much value in comparing a true box office bomb that was DOA with another film that matched the total worldwide gross of the first film with its domestic opening weekend gross, regardless of whether they were both poorly received superhero films.

One film suffered steep drops but also had a heavily front-loaded worldwide release during which many, many people saw the film, which makes its drops at least a bit more excusable. The other film made roughly half of what it was even predicted to make opening weekend and just got worse from there -- the definition of a dud. I personally don't know anyone "in real life" that actually saw it in theaters.

For the record I don't feel any joy seeing characters I love mishandled in such a spectacular fashion, but there is something to be said for the underwhelming box office. I am glad that studios aren't going to be rewarded for subpar efforts.

And my point still stands. You haven't refuted the fact that, from a box office perspective, they behaved similarly. They both made roughly half of their domestic gross in their opening weekend, suffered massive drops in the coming weekends, had below a 2x multiplier, and came in well below expectations. There are obvious differences, and these are disappointments on two different scales, but there's clearly a valid comparison to be had here, whether you want to admit it or not.

 

[The Joker]

Apparently they're pumping JL as a more family friendly movie. I think that's their attempt to make the billion they hoped to make here.

 

[JOE]

Apparently they're pumping JL as a more family friendly movie. I think that's their attempt to make the billion they hoped to make here.

"DC is darker, Marvel movies are more for families/kids."

I hope they do a complete 180 with the DCeU.

 

[StormC]

It might be more lighthearted and fun but it'll still most likely have all the storytelling problems Snyder's films have. Get JJ Abrams to do it.

 

[JOE]

It might be more lighthearted and fun but it'll still most likely have all the storytelling problems Snyder's films have. Get JJ Abrams to do it.

Snyder is to blame, but there's a lot more people at fault than just him. Even Affleck praised the movie before it came out. I understand it's his job to do so, but there's other ways of promoting without giving your stamp of approval. I genuinely believe everyone behind the movie thought it would be well received.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

I'm not wasting any more time and money another Zack Snyder superhero film. Either he's gone or I'm not buying.

 

[Mandon Knight]

Can anyone tell me why Box office mojo drag their heels so much about updating their overseas (foreign) box office totals, I appreciate there is a lot of data to collate but there are 18 days total $$$$ to account for on BvS, every dime counts on the final total people.... BOM just seem top have given up, lazy f***ers.

 

[Ozbridge]

Can anyone tell me why Box office mojo drag their heels so much about updating their overseas (foreign) box office totals, I appreciate there is a lot of data to collate but there are 18 days total $$$$ to account for on BvS, every dime counts on the final total people.... BOM just seem top have given up, lazy f***ers.

You mean the "$542,302,437 as of 6/5/16" in BvS's Foreign by Country page? That's likely a mistake and I think that number ($542.3M) is updated to Jun 12.

If you look at the Foreign by Weekend page then BvS foreign gross was 540.6M as of May 8 so that "$542,302,437 as of 6/5/16" is totally inaccurate. Apparently BvS made 1.7M (542.3 - 540.6) from May 9 to Jun 12, which, IMO, is a quite reasonable number since it was sinking fast.

 

[Mandon Knight]

You mean the "$542,302,437 as of 6/5/16" in BvS's Foreign by Country page? That's likely a mistake and I think that number ($542.3M) is updated to Jun 12.

If you look at the Foreign by Weekend page then BvS foreign gross was 540.6M as of May 8 so that "$542,302,437 as of 6/5/16" is totally inaccurate. Apparently BvS made 1.7M (542.3 - 540.6) from May 9 to Jun 12, which, IMO, is a quite reasonable number since it was sinking fast.

There are 11 days worth of Foreign Box Office not accountered for, from the 5th June to the last day of release, the 16th June. They should deal with this PDQ.

 

[Bruce Malone]

Wonder Woman is now on track to pass this film at the Box Office domestically.

That alone probably says as much about the quality of that film as it does the massive lost opportunity of this one.

You'd have probably been banned here if you tried to make that prediction the February before last.

 

[Osiris-Rex]

Apparently they're pumping JL as a more family friendly movie. I think that's their attempt to make the billion they hoped to make here.

Old post, but still worth commenting on. Justice League has Wonder Woman it it. Unless the movie is completely terrible it should easily make $1 billion. Wonder Woman herself looks like she will make $700-$750 million.
Maybe even more. Add a great looking Aquaman, Batman and Superman returns and they would have to intentionally sabotage the movie for it not to be a hit instead of just mere incompetence with Superman v Batman.

 

[TheVileOne]

Old post, but still worth commenting on. Justice League has Wonder Woman it it. Unless the movie is completely terrible it should easily make $1 billion. Wonder Woman herself looks like she will make $700-$750 million.
Maybe even more. Add a great looking Aquaman, Batman and Superman returns and they would have to intentionally sabotage the movie for it not to be a hit instead of just mere incompetence with Superman v Batman.

Batman v Superman had Wonder Woman, Batman and Superman in it. It should've made a billion.

Think about that, Batman and Superman. Together on screen for the first time, and it still didn't make a billion. It didn't even make $900 million.

 

[Bruce Malone]

Batman v Superman had Wonder Woman, Batman and Superman in it. It should've made a billion.

Think about that, Batman and Superman. Together on screen for the first time, and it still didn't make a billion. It didn't even make $900 million.

WB should be extra pissed at the whole situation.

If WW alone is going to about equal Batman and Superman and surpass it domestically, all BvS had to do was not suck and a billion would have been almost guaranteed.

Either way it's fitting the top 3 DC films will be critically acclaimed now.

 

[rashad]

What's done is done. Many films would kill for 873 million.

 

[The Joker]

Yeah ones that didn't spend the amount of money that was spent on BvS, not to mention the monetary worth of the characters used in the movie.

 

[Grommers]

Yeah ones that didn't spend the amount of money that was spent on BvS, not to mention the monetary worth of the characters used in the movie.

What would you equate in a dollar value the monetary worth to be? And how did you come to that conclusion?

 

[The Joker]

What would you equate in a dollar value the monetary worth to be? And how did you come to that conclusion?

Well lets put it this way; Batman on his own was able to pull in a billion dollars just by himself. Twice in a row. Batman and Superman combined together didn't even come close.

 

[TheVileOne]

What's done is done. Many films would kill for 873 million.

Yeah movies with the budget of Deadpool.

 

[Osiris-Rex]

Batman v Superman had Wonder Woman, Batman and Superman in it. It should've made a billion.

Think about that, Batman and Superman. Together on screen for the first time, and it still didn't make a billion. It didn't even make $900 million.

But the Justice League will have the Wonder Woman in it that everyone has fallen in love with. No one knew what to expect of her in BvS and most people came to see Batman and Superman. It was only after the fact that
people came away saying "Hey, Wonder Woman was really cool, to bad the rest of the movie wasn't." And Diana only showed up in the last 15 minutes as Wonder Woman. Diana didn't really do all that much prior to that other
than being a mysterious woman Bruce was trying to figure out. In Justice League she should be a major part of the movie. A lot of people that wouldn't have gone to see Justice League will go see it to see Wonder Woman again.
The only way I could see Justice League failing is if Wonder Woman just makes a cameo appearance again and isn't a big part of the movie.

 

[Osiris-Rex]

Yeah movies with the budget of Deadpool.

Amazing, isn't it.
Deadpool, budget $58 million, domestic $363 million, worldwide $783 million
Batman v Superman, Budget $250 million, domestic $330 million, worldwide $873 million.
And Deadpool didn't play in China, so subtract the $96 million China from BvS and BVS is $777 million

 

[Grommers]

Well lets put it this way; Batman on his own was able to pull in a billion dollars just by himself. Twice in a row. Batman and Superman combined together didn't even come close.

Oh right - Superman who has shown no history of hitting the billion dollar mark should have guaranteed Batman (and his first outting in this universe) a billion dollars.

 

[Erzengel]

Oh right - Superman who has shown no history of hitting the billion dollar mark should have guaranteed Batman (and his first outting in this universe) a billion dollars.

You might not agree but it's an easy expectation for a movie where Batman was pretty dominant in.

Not to mention this was essentially a JL 0 which the 3 major characters involved.

And like Joker said, TDKR was 4 years earlier. This should have made more.

 

[Flemm]

Anyway, with the way this movie opened, it would have done much better without any trouble had its legs not been abysmal. So the potential was obviously there.

It had a 166M opening, and even that was impacted by reviews and word of mouth, in all likelihood, as the drops over the first weekend are already pretty steep.

The opening shows the interest was there, whereas the steep drops show people didn't end up liking the movie much.

What none of that shows is that the movie is obviously a misunderstood work of genius that will be held up as a pinnacle of artistic accomplishment for generations to come

 

[samsnee]

Oh right - Superman who has shown no history of hitting the billion dollar mark should have guaranteed Batman (and his first outting in this universe) a billion dollars.

And none of the individual Avengers came close to hitting a billion in their solo movies, and yet that movie did. And one could argue that Batman and Superman were still much more well known than them when Avengers rolled around.

 

[Grommers]

You might not agree but it's an easy expectation for a movie where Batman was pretty dominant in.

Not to mention this was essentially a JL 0 which the 3 major characters involved.

And like Joker said, TDKR was 4 years earlier. This should have made more.

This wasn't even close to being a JL 0. Their was an arc for wonderwoman that didnt make much sense till Wonder Woman came out.

And no first outting for batman for any of the series has made 1 billion.

But I have realized that there is a better chance of it being cloudy with a chance of meatballs than to stop a couple people from using the "it's a box office failure" line in every single B vs S thread possible.