How is it backpeddling when that was never the intent? That story is from over a month ago, and Gunn indicated that the next Supes movie wouldn't be a direct sequel prior to that.
There really needs to be a Monty Python Black Knight smiley, with limbs all gone, and given the : ff-is-winning : name
Watched it tonight. Liked it. 7/7.5 out of 10. I like Corenswet in the role. I really liked the way they depicted the flying from up close, like it was almost violent rushing through the air so fast. I'd watch a Green Lantern movie with Fillion in the role. Nice cameo from Christopher Reeve's actual teevee-reporter son playing a teevee reporter. Not enough Perry White, IMHO, because I love Wendell Pierce. Hated the monkeys and hated that they cast Beck Bennett in this movie. I've disliked him as an actor since he was an SNL cast member. The actor who played Luthor kind of looked a little like a bald Tom Cruise at times. He also reminds me of a really annoying person I know IRL.
^Best we got is Guy probably appearing in the upcoming Lanterns HBO show. As much as I like Fillion's Guy, I think the character is best when he's got a lot of others to play off of rather than the central character. One of the things about this Superman is it is one of the first to grapple with the existence of social media/new media and how old fashioned and quaint it is for the Daily Planet to have such a prominent role. It was really the Planet's reporting that took down Luthor as much as Superman. Sadly, if the real world equivalent attempted the same, most likely the news would have been spun, downplayed, ignored; the corporate parent of the Planet bullied and/or sued, and generally people who believed Luthor would have just kept on keeping on.
I gotta say that a movie with Jordan or Stewart paired with Gardner in a sort of "buddy cop" format that would make you think of 48 Hours or Lethal Weapon would be an absolute banger
If you're going to 48 Hours it, Sinestro - post Sinestro Corps. Gardner: The yellow suits you Sinestro: *raises querulous brow* Gardner: Always thought you were a streak of piss, now you look the part
watched it a few nights back as it's now on Crave (of course, the only reason I have Crave is because it was bundled with my internet provider...) Loved that there was an Otis and a Ms Tessmacher I really want a sub plot of Krypto and Super Girl being chaotic. Superman has always seemed a little paternalistic, it was interesting to see him as a Zennial. Probably the most realistically human Clark Kent portrayal yet with believable insecurities and interests.
eighth highest gross this year top gross for HBO studios returning about 275% net, so far. sequel, greenlit your takes on cinema are almost as astute as those on history.
I remember a time when if a movie hit a $100 million gross it was considered a success and $200 million was a smash hit. Boy have times changed.
It made north of a $120 million profit, and counting, from its various income streams. If that's a flop, what's your profitability John D Subwayfeller?
It hasn't. Dingbat grifters like Critical Drinker just claim it has, and people like FF slurp it up because they don't know the meaning of "confirmation bias".
In fairness, inflation is a thing, as is increased spending on special effects and what not. Back when you're probably thinking of, there were few, if any, movies made with a production budget of $100 million, let alone the reported production budget of $225 million that Superman had. Also in fairness, there were probably also Hollywood accounting shenanigans that allowed even those movies to be argued to have been dismal failures so as to scam people who had a piece of the action from getting the money they were due. Today, some people have floated the theoretical number that a movie must make 2.5 times its production budget to avoid being a flop, which seems to be based on a whole lot of nothing. But on top of that, in Superman we have a movie that HAS met that metric (2.5*225m=$562.50m) and you have people like FF STILL insisting that the movie is a flop. Because...reasons.
FF's YT CHUDs kicked, and thrashed, and rolled around, and screeched, and threw strained carrots at the walls for the whole run of Snyder-verse movies, and WB made 15 of the goddamned things. Guys, the Blue Fairy isn't hearing your wishes. Pick another fairy, or give up.
Actually TWOK budget was 11.2 million and it grossed closed to 80 million. The budget was reduced because at the time TMP had the highest budget ever of 35 million. Far as the success of Superman 2025, it was successful enough to warrant WB approving a sequal that Gunn has already announced a release date for. So get ready for Superman Man of Tomorrow in 2027. And in case you were wondering who the villain will be. Been waiting for a live action version of Braniac on the big screen forever. Can't wait.
Braniac is my favorite Superman villain and I too have been waiting for a live action Brainiac, but I thought Gunn had walked that back by saying it wasn’t a sequel. As for the 80 million number, I had that number in my head I just got it backwards. Oh and some fans try to say that the super computer in Superman 3 was Braniac. I don’t know about that.
Brainiac done right would be awesome. I hope he's still shrinking cities. Maybe in a digital/holographic kind of way (everyone is digitized and stored in some kindof Matrix-like artificial reality). Metropolis gets taken and Supes has to get it back. With Luthor's help!
They had a pretty damned creepy live-action Brainiac on "Krypton". He was like a horror movie demon. Nobody watched "Krypton". They should have. It was friggin' wild.
Wanna know the movie that WB's really worried might not turn a profit? It's this one: Budget of $140 million, opening weekend was ~$40 million. Paul Thomas Anderson's highest-grossing movie made $75 million; Leonardo's lowest-grossing movie also made $75 million. This podcast has the details. (Oh, and this year, WB's had nine movies in a row that were number one at the box office.)
It wasn't by any stretch of the imagination. Braniac had been considered for Superman 3 along with a crazy story involving Superman and Supergirl getting married. Yes. For real. Should have just been rejected for being utterly stupid. Thank goodness THAT never happened. No wonder this franchise went off the rails after Donner was shown the door. Thank goodness for James Gunn.
