Every DC movie has flopped, maybe not Aquaman, but that one was because of the cockroach eaters so doesn't count.
But they still keep doing those massive flops anyway. There's no hope, capeshit will exist forever.
Aquaman was dumb fun, which was what it was supposed to be. The fact that fucking
Aquaman made more money than Superman or Batman's respective movies is telling.
With that said, I don't have faith for its sequel, because DC's audience is waning, and the whole Amber Heard chicanery.
Give or take really. There's not even a chance in hell where it can break even worldwide. It's further proof that aside from most Batman movies (this includes Joker), which have proven to be more successful as respective standalone movies, DC is not good with kickstarting their own universes. Batgirl has long been cancelled, Blue Beetle is already dumped in mid-August where most kids are back at school, and The Flash is already written off as a flop (as with BvS, Justice League, Birds of Prey, WW1984, the Suicide Squad duology, Black Adam and the recent Shazam sequel), even a few years before its actual release. Warner should just cut their losses and move on.
The thing is, Batman works as a character because he's very grounded. He doesn't have super-abilities like Superman or Wonder Woman, but at the same time, has so much going for himself as a human that Diana nor Clark have. Nevermind that most of his villains are just as grounded; they're either mentally ill, egotistical, associated with the Mafia, or just have a lot of resources at their disposal.
Actually, it was released both in theatres and streaming on HBO Max simultaneously similar to WW1984, both released during the pandemic, as WB was hoping that this plan would benefit the company, but it didn't.
The Suicide Squad was a flop, but it was an unfortunate victim of circumstance. Not only was DC churning out crap movies, along with what happened with the pandemic, but no one knew if this movie was a sequel, or a reboot, or whatever.
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What is irksome to me is that Zaslav took it all over right when the fucking template foe success was handed to him on a silver platter, and instead he just decided to double down on their MCU-but-even-more-retarded strategy. I mean Joker made well over a billion (a real billion, not a Disney "billion") on a $55M budget and minimal marketing. Now I'm not a Joker fanatic, it was a good movie, a hell of a lot better than I expected (having de Niro in it was way too on the nose, but otherwise it was good, with a ton of laughs). I mean I guess that's not REALLY a superhero movie, but it easily could've been. It's just a small movie made by competent people who actually fucking cared about what they were making. I'm sure the sequels will suck as they will shoehorn in Lady Gaga and a bunch of shitskins and faggots, because Zaslav is just Iger-lite, but who knows. I do know there's a miniscule chance for me to pay to see it while there's zero chance I'll see any of Gunn's garbage (well, pay to see).
I find it perplexing that Zaslav cancelled
Batgirl because it would tarnish the DC brand, when he had three movies back to back (
Black Adam,
Shazam 2 and
The Flash) that came out that not only lost a bunch of money for the studios, but arguably tarnished the brand just as much if not more than
Batgirl might have.
At least there was a level of interest with the Batgirl film, and with Brendan Fraser, who just won an Oscar for Best Actor not long ago, playing Firefly, that would have brought more interest, no matter how trash the film is.
These business decisions are just so ridiculous, it does concern me how these people got into these positions in the first place.
