What Comic Book Movie will gross the highest in 2020?

[Erzengel]

Will this be the first year since 2009 that a MCU movie isn't the highest grossing movie of the year?

What is your pick?

 

[Detective Conan]

Morbius is going to make the most money as it will make a billion dollars and get a 95% on Rotten Tomatoes.

And the Earth is flat.

 

[Web-Head]

Good poll. I think it'll be Black Widow as I think it'll be the only one that reaches, or gets close to 1B at the box office. I wasn't so sure prior to the trailer, but the buzz surrounding it has been pretty nuts and it's really the only one with a built in base already, aside from WW.

I would say the top 3 will probably be

1. Black Widow
2. WW84
3. Eternals

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

My heart wants to say Black Widow but my head tells me Venom 2.

Eternals’ box office will put up a fight.

 

[Detective Conan]

My heart wants to say Black Widow but my head tells me Venom 2.

Eternals’ box office will put up a fight.

Eternals is going to surprise people. I’m going to go out on a lamb and say it becomes the surprise highest grossing comic book movie of the year much like Guardians was in 2014. I think we’ll see a repeat of Guardians again.

 

[BoredGuy]

I'd say WW84, followed by Widow and Eternals (although maybe switch those two if Eternals surprises everyone and looks amazing, like GOTG or Black Panther)

After the WW84 trailer, my expectations sank dramatically, but the last one made a mint and was very well received, so regardless of quality the sequel will prob do even better

 

[NotNickFury]

Morbius is going to make the most money as it will make a billion dollars and get a 95% on Rotten Tomatoes.

And the Earth is flat.

You joke, but remember how many people underestimated or flat out rooted for Venom to be a dud at the box office, and then it wasn't. Morbius isn't Venom, yes, but I could still see it making a good amount of money, even if the most diehard of Spider-Man fans would prefer it flop.

 

[BoredGuy]

I still, for the life of me, cannot figure out how Venom made that much money

it wasn't baaaaad, per se, but it was not a billion dollar grosser

but then again, Fast and Furious, Transformers, and many other crap films prove that I just dont understand audiences, lol

 

[Sithborg]

I'm not entirely sure Venom 2 is coming out this year. Otherwise, it would be a fight between Venom and WW.

 

[Detective Conan]

You joke, but remember how many people underestimated or flat out rooted for Venom to be a dud at the box office, and then it wasn't. Morbius isn't Venom, yes, but I could still see it making a good amount of money, even if the most diehard of Spider-Man fans would prefer it flop.

But that would require Sony to make a quality movie this time, or at least an appealing movie. I don’t know how they can convince me to rush out to see Morbius. Ideally their expectations for this should be that it make Ant-Man numbers(the budget has to be under a hundred million, ideally) but I’m not sure if this can even reach those numbers. Is Jared Leto even a draw? Are Vampires a draw? The successful movie franchise involving Vampires was the Twilight series and that was over a decade ago. Who will be the audience for this film? Is this a horror movie? A horror comedy?

 

[NotNickFury]

But that would require Sony to make a quality movie this time, or at least an appealing movie. I don’t know how they can convince me to rush out to see Morbius. Ideally their expectations for this should be that it make Ant-Man numbers(the budget has to be under a hundred million, ideally) but I’m not sure if this can even reach those numbers. Is Jared Leto even a draw? Are Vampires a draw? The successful movie franchise involving Vampires was the Twilight series and that was over a decade ago. Who will be the audience for this film? Is this a horror movie? A horror comedy?

It's not you they even need to convince, especially if, sounds like, you've already written off the film. The same general audience that didn't care about the myriad of negative opinions that comic book fans had about Venom won't care what they also say about Morbius. All your questions may end up being moot depending on how the movie is marketed. After all, what was Venom? A simple B-comic book movie? Body horror?

Either way, it's not the hardcore comic book dissecting audience that will be the main audience for this film. It's the general audience that couldn't tell the difference from Venom or a Superman. Perhaps that's not giving them enough credit, but they won't take as much convincing as you would.

 

[Detective Conan]

It's not you they even need to convince, especially if, sounds like, you've already written off the film. The same general audience that didn't care about the myriad of negative opinions that comic book fans had about Venom won't care what they also say about Morbius. All your questions may end up being moot depending on how the movie is marketed. After all, what was Venom? A simple B-comic book movie? Body horror?

Either way, it's not the hardcore comic book dissecting audience that will be the main audience for this film. It's the general audience that couldn't tell the difference from Venom or a Superman. Perhaps that's not giving them enough credit, but they won't take as much convincing as you would.

I get where you’re coming from but all I’m saying is Morbius has much less potential than Venom to perform to expectations, and is much more of risk than doing a film about an A-list comic book villain who’s very popular with fans. It could prove to be successful and I may be totally wrong but I don’t think Sony has the MCU ability to turn a niche character like Morbius into a franchise. Sony lucked out with Venom due to his popularity before the movie but this time they don’t have that luxury. I just can’t see where a world where Morbius is either a critical or financial success.

Which is why I ask those questions because I’m genuinely not sure what the draw for a Morbius flick will be. Can it be successful? Sure, any movie has the potential to be successful under the right circumstances but unlike Marvel which can turn Ant-Man into a franchise can Sony do this? It remains to be seen. If I’m proven wrong and Morbius does as well as well or even better than the first Ant-Man then I’ll be the first to admit I was wrong. Until then, I remain skeptical.

 

[Limonade]

Maybe Black Widow might surprise us, but Wonder Woman is poised to have a big year. Hands down.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Wondy will be huge, I'm sure of that. BW and Eternals will also do well; Marvel ain't had a bomb yet and these films - one of which is a movie that fans have been wanting for a long time and the other boasts Marvel's most diverse cast yet and a truly epic premise - are almost guaranteed to be huge. Unless by some miracle BOP is actually good, I hope that it bombs so that maybe this awful Harleyverse they stared with Suicide Turd can finally be laid to rest. And unless James Gunn pulls off a miracle and somehow manages to make his Suicide Squad sequel (that's not a sequel but is really a sequel) good, I hope that bombs too.

 

[Erzengel]

There is a distinct possibility that BOP can outgross WW84.

 

[Detective Conan]

There is a distinct possibility that BOP can outgross WW84.

That’s interesting. May I ask why you think that could happen?

 

[Erzengel]

That’s interesting. May I ask why you think that could happen?

Because Aquaman made more money than WW? Or Venom did as well as it did. BOP despite my reservations, looks like a "fun" movie in those vein over WW84?

 

[Sithborg]

Not sure that is an accurate take.

 

[Erzengel]

BOP is looking to be more comedic. I'm figuring WW84, to be action but more serious.

 

[Sithborg]

I mean, Shazam was advertised as more comedic than a lot of other movies, and it didn't exactly beat out others.

 

[Erzengel]

BOP also has Robbie's HQ. That's also part of the reason.

 

[Bayne]

I'm not expecting BoP to be massive, let alone the highest grossing, but I think a lot of the people who are automatically expecting it to bomb are being led entirely by their own wishful thinking.

Robbie's performance in Suicide Squad was massively popular and BoP is basically her sequel, regardless of the title. Also, whatever you may feel personally about the look or style of the movie, the trailer *is* fun (and it looks to have a really solid dose of pathos for Harley, to boot), so I highly doubt the movie just falls flat on its face with the general audience (who really don't give a **** about why Cassandra Cain is talking or what happened to Huntress and Black Canary's costumes, etc, etc).

I know if I had to choose only one superhero genre film to see this year based on trailers so-far released (Bop- Good, WW - Ok, BW - Good) and previous history of performances (Robbie- Excellent, Gadot- Charming, Johannson- Pretty Good) it'd be BoP. (Morbius is an automatic no and Eternals is impossible to judge until I see something more substantial of it.)

 

[Sithborg]

I expect it to do decently, if not massive numbers.

 

[a user]

I’m expecting the ‘first gay superhero’ hype to be huge for Eternals, so it has my vote. I could definitely be wrong, though.

 

[Filmfreak]

Ever since it was established, with the exception of 2008, MCU has been on top of superhero movies every year and frankly I don't see this changing in 2020, the first year of Phase 4, after the biggest movie of all time and with this competition.

So even though it would be a nice surprise the safest choice in my opinion would be one of their entries and I'd probably go with Eternals. It has all the right ingredients and timing to attract the most viewers.

It does seem that 2021 is going to break this tradition though. But that's a story for next year.