The Flash Box Office Thread

[Comicbookguy339]

It's not gonna beat Green Lantern domestically.

 

[JKKS085]

Worst PTA of the top 10 too. This thing is done once Dead Reckoning rolls over.
So maybe another $6.5/7M in the tank for a finish dom around $102/103M.
No chance that it goes over $250M worldwide unless international trends suddenly turn out vastly different from what we’re seeing in NA (or unless WB is late reporting international numbers).
Going to end up 100M+ short of its combined production and p&a budgets. Should have taken that tax write-off.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Keaton came back for a multi-film contract:

- The Flash
- Batgirl
- Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
- Batman Beyond
- Possibly more

All of which, combined, would have allowed him to flesh out his characterization (especially Batgirl and Beyond). All culminating in a Crisis movie where he could have potentially teamed up with Affleck and perhaps Clooney, Bale, etc.

He did not sign on for what The Flash became in it's finished form, with Gunn's ending. Regime changes, a problematic lead actor and a divided DC fanbase changed the potential for more.

In saying that, he's probably signed a pay or play contract and is off happily shooting Beetlejuice 2 with his buddy Burton. He'll be fine.

In an alternate reality Keaton and Burton have a chinwag filming Beetlejuice 2. The conversation turns to Batman and they start swapping ideas for Batman Beyond. It snowballs. By the time they finish filming they've got a full pitch. They meet with Gunn, who is totally opposed to the idea, only agreeing to see them as a token of respect. Two and half hours later Gunn is blown away and fully onboard. And we get our movie... Ah, well.

 

[samsnee]

It took 10 years to get it on to the big screen and 3 weeks to leave it

 

[Lily Adler]

It took 10 years to get it on to the big screen and 3 weeks to leave it

 

[samsnee]

Worst PTA of the top 10 too. This thing is done once Dead Reckoning rolls over.
So maybe another $6.5/7M in the tank for a finish dom around $102/103M.
No chance that it goes over $250M worldwide unless international trends suddenly turn out vastly different from what we’re seeing in NA (or unless WB is late reporting international numbers).
Going to end up 100M+ short of its combined production and p&a budgets. Should have taken that tax write-off.

Instead destroyed the brand even further

 

[SomeOldGuy]

Weekend estimate from deadline. Still short of 100…

8.) The Flash (WB) 2,718 (-1,538) theaters, Fri $1.4M (-68%), 3-day $4.8M (-68%), Total $99M/Wk 3

 

[super85]

Worst PTA of the top 10 too. This thing is done once Dead Reckoning rolls over.
So maybe another $6.5/7M in the tank for a finish dom around $102/103M.
No chance that it goes over $250M worldwide unless international trends suddenly turn out vastly different from what we’re seeing in NA (or unless WB is late reporting international numbers).
Going to end up 100M+ short of its combined production and p&a budgets. Should have taken that tax write-off.

245 million global total currently. they usually only update those figures on Sundays/Mondays.

The Flash - Box Office Mojo

 

[samsnee]

It would have been something if this didn’t crack $100M in North America

 

[super85]

Well, that 100 million will crack this week I am sure, but will it do better than Batman&Robin that made 107,3 million back in 1997?....

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

Well, that 100 million will crack this week I am sure, but will it do better than Batman&Robin that made 107,3 million back in 1997?....

What is that in 2023 money?

 

[Bayne]

What is that in 2023 money?

203 million.

 

[super85]

Of course, that B&R1997 result is better. I was just trying to be funny about the rather sad boxoffice results this movie has had.

Again, I thought "The Flash" was a complete mess, but at times fairly entertaining. Its just that a very small audience was interested in it.

 

[The Overlord]

Man, Green Lantern might make more money than this film, if you adjust for inflation.

DC has really messed up the handling of its characters outside of the big 3. The Flash would have been kinda a B-list hero like Iron Man was before 2008, except even coming off a successful TV show didn't help the Flash movie be successful.

 

[B]

Hard to pinpoint exactly what's gone wrong for The Flash because this was a total disaster. It won't even touch Black Adam & in terms of character popularity, beforehand I'd have said Flash would or should have been levels above Black Adam. You'd have thought that would have counted for something & picked up some passing cinema goers.

It just seems like a combination of everything that has created a perfect storm for failure.

 

[kguillou]

Black Adam made as much as it did because of Dwayne Johnson. The Flash didnt have Dwaybe johnson level star power to drive it.

 

[B]

Black Adam made as much as it did because of Dwayne Johnson. The Flash didnt have Dwaybe johnson level star power to drive it.

The Rock adds $250m box office & Ezra Miller deducts $250m

 

[JannTosh]

This movie is flat out radioactive to audiences. I do think having an unlikable and uncharismatic lead is a major factor

 

[Frodo]

Hard to pinpoint exactly what's gone wrong for The Flash because this was a total disaster. It won't even touch Black Adam & in terms of character popularity, beforehand I'd have said Flash would or should have been levels above Black Adam. You'd have thought that would have counted for something & picked up some passing cinema goers.

It just seems like a combination of everything that has created a perfect storm for failure.

Basically.

It was a combination of alot of different factors.

 

[kguillou]

Releasing so many tentpoles in such proximity was an absolute idiotic move on all the studios' part as well and as we can see from other films' box offices, its hurting everyone. These things needed their room to breathe.

 

[samsnee]

This movie is flat out radioactive to audiences. I do think having an unlikable and uncharismatic lead is a major factor

And that Justice League didn’t do any favors either

 

[super85]

I think Zack Snyders Justice League would have done this a bit of a favor if they would have managed to get this film out earlier. At least the characters would have been on peoples mind then.. Now nobody gave a ****. I dont think it would have done great then either, but it might have at least had a better opening weekend.

 

[Comicbookguy339]

I think Zack Snyders Justice League would have done this a bit of a favor if they would have managed to get this film out earlier. At least the characters would have been on peoples mind then.. Now nobody gave a ****. I dont think it would have done great then either, but it might have at least had a better opening weekend.

Don't think even that would have saved it. If Zack Snyder's JL (or at least a shorter version of it) had been released theatrically back in 2017 and The Flash came out a year later as originally planned then it might have made decent money.

 

[super85]

It wouldnt have saved it, but it would have possible given it a somewhat less terrible result, since ZSJL was fairly well received by critics, did decently on home video and had a slight buzz.

And sure, several years ago this might have done better, this is one of those classic "Development Hel* for years" projects, not the first from WB/DC....I mean wasnt this even supposed to come out in like 2016 originally? it was announced in 2014........

Very curious if Aquaman bombs badly too, the original still made a billion dollars, but I haven't heard anyone say "Man I am really hyped for Aquaman 2!"

 

[Mani-Man]

Basically.

It was a combination of alot of different factors.

True that.
Everything that could go wrong about this, gone wrong.

You got a lead you couldnt promote the movie with.
A writer strike so you couldnt bring anybody to talk shows etc.
A Reboot that pretty much ruined for many the interest in anything else DC related.
Reshoots etc because 3 different regimes wanted this to end on 3 different notes.

And so on.
There was not a lot it had for it.

Like i dont think it was as bad as it looks it is...but i cant blame anybody for not being super into it for various reasons.