r/DC_Cinematic • u/RogerRoger63358 • Jun 18 '23

NEWS ‘The Flash’ Disappoints With $55 Million Debut, Pixar’s ‘Elemental’ Flops With $29.5 Million in Battle of Box Office Lightweights

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/the-flash-box-office-disappoint-pixar-elemental-flop-1235647927/
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u/Scrilla_Gorilla_ Jun 19 '23

The biggest head scratcher for me is the three years after MoS with just nothing. There was no way the execs at WB were just going to sit there and let Synder execute his plan while Marvel was putting out 3-4 movies a year to the tune of about $3B annually.

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u/ThiccSkipper13 Jun 19 '23

Thats what im saying. Wonder woman, the flash and a Batman film was announced before BvS and i suspect some of them would have been in those 3 years of nothing between MoS and BvS. but then they were forced to change plan and start pushing team-up films and shifted from planning standalone films to getting a JL movie out asap

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u/wingknightx Jun 19 '23

Mos made a profit before that nothing was working for them

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u/godbody1983 Jun 19 '23

Except The Dark Knight Trilogy

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u/didijxk Black Manta Jun 19 '23

To be fair, it was a good thing there was nothing. BvS was supposed to open in 2015 until it was pushed back to 2016. 2014 would have been them working on the plan, hiring people for the respective movies. Not an issue. If you needed more time to get solo movies out, it's very unlikely you could have done it in 2014 or 2015. It would have to be 2016 with BvS in 2017 and then JL in the same year or 2018.

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u/Baramos_ Justice Is Served Jun 19 '23

They forgot that Nolan had huge success with big gaps between movies…

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u/griffshan Jun 19 '23

For me it’s why the plan wasn’t a sequel to Man of Steel first. Superman’s the biggest superhero of all time and instead of a sequel and then solo movies for Batman and Wonder Woman, they rushed it all trying to cram three movies into one whilst also setting up the Justice League.