Are you still sure that there's not a place for Superman?
Watchmen
Production Budget: $150 million
Domestic: $107,483,804 58.8%
+ Foreign: $75,225,483 41.2%
= Worldwide: $182,709,287
Terminator Salvation
Production Budget: $200 million
Domestic: $56,382,000
Superman Returns after its first week-end did $66,795,937
I wonder if it's really impossible to imagine a better performance for the supposed "Man of Steel".
"Watchmen will do great!"
"Terminator Salvation and its sequels will do billions. Superman is useless".
At this point if the Hobbit failed, at WB they would be in trouble.
It's clear that they have canned the Superman franchise without a single good reason, and I wonder if now (after that a TS sequel is not sure anymore) there is a place for it.
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Everybody knows that WB's decision to release the next POtter movie this years instead of nov. '08 was because of the (feared) performance of Watchmen and Terminator. I'm sure other people saw that as well. There are very few movies that are sure fire blockbusters before they're even released. Recent examples of this are 300 , Transformers and Star Trek. Although movies may look good when thy're being promoted by releasing clips , trailetc etc , in the end you really don't need how a movie might perform untill the movie actually is released . Watchmen and Terminator fall in that last category. I think it was the summer of 2006 when WB really felt the absence of movies like Potter with so many of their high profile movies not making the $$$ ( Superman Returns and Poseidon). So naturally they learned their lesson.
Summer '08 started bad for WB with Speed Racer bombing financially however they got their money with TDK's success. Because the Potter movies have always been a goldmine for WB ( so much so that they can cancel the negative BO results from other movies) , i feel that WB's doesn't need to worry about Supermans return just to compensate losses .
2009-2010-2011. 3 years with a Potter movie being released each year.
There was talk that WB was trying to release superhero movies fone franchise 3 years apart so that would've meant that we'd see the next Batman movie in 2011. But given that Nolan is doing Inception ( which judging from reports seems to be a bigger picture then the small-scale Prestige ) for a summer 2010 release , my guess is that next Batman movie will come out in 2012.
Although we haven't heard nothing from WB regarding an active development for a Superman sequel , WB could technically release the next Superman movie in 2013.
However personally i'd rather seem them release the next superman movie in 2012 IF at least Batman 3 is also released in 2012 simply going by the logic that Batman 3 will most likely perform very well.
2011 could've also been a good year but WB is releasing the last Potter movie in July , Green Lantern in June and Happy Feet 2 in November. The first superman movie also came out in december if i'm not mistaken but IMO WB should be smart enough not to screw up their own movies by releasing them so lose to each other. Happy Feet performend very well during the nov.-dec period.
It's really a question of how WB wants the Superman sequel to be but i it's anything like Superman Returns , the audience wo'n't flock to the movies. You need to have that fun/entertainment factor that made moives like the POTC trilogy , Transformers & spider-man such a such a FINANCIAL success/
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