‘Superman & Batman’ movie will follow ‘Man of Steel’
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Turkish Airlines reported the budget to be $350 million. That's insane
http://www.dailysabah.com/money/2016/01/25/turkish-airlines-to-take-off-with-batman-v-superman-deal
RUMOUR: The Production Budget Has Ballooned to $400 million
If that's true, the movie will NEED to make over $1 Billion to break even.
I grew up with the invisible jet so I don't really care if she flies or not. I agree with JD on this--the film is going to open huge and then will live or die on its own merits.
They might have included the marketing budget, though. Wikipedia (giving the source of The Hollywood Reporter) lists the budget as $ 200 million. $150 million for marketing sounds about right, considering what they did, all the trailers, TV spots, the TV special on The CW, ads, two SDCC panels (remember, they had one in 2014, too), trailer premiere on Jimmy Kimmel, etc., it adds up. Shame that a lot of the marketing was shit, though.
The marketing is supposed to benefit the licensed products, too, though.
Oh, please. ComicBookMovie.com is one of the worst sources you could give. Don't believe anything they write on that site.
As for the computer algorithm thing, has that been tested, yet?! I suspect not, or we would have heard about it sooner. So, it's still up in the air whether it's at all accurate.
My only exposure to Wonder Woman was Lynda Carter and Superfriends.
I didn't even know she could fly until the Justice League cartoon show.
I didn't even know she could fly until the Justice League cartoon show.
I see. Still, author Mario-Francisco Robles clearly states that promotion is included in the $ 400 million.
I would disagree about the Adam West Batman. He actually has the Buggs Bunny like power to produce whatever is needed.
He would probably have some clearly labeled Anti-Karate spray, or something.
Of course I've seen it. What do you mean?
I hope this movie FAILS! No more DC/Warner Bros movies EVER!!! Cancel all the DC/Warner Bros TV shows TOO!!!
That would be Bat-Anti-Karate spray.
It seriously baffles me how anybody could possibly think a movie with Batman and Superman together on screen could possibly fail, people have been wanting to see that for decades. Add on to that Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg, Flash, and the fact that it's a set up for the JL movie, and you've got even more stuff people want to see on the big screen for the first time.
Hell, the Guardians of the Galaxy and Deadpool were both huge hits, and they don't have anywhere near the pop culture presence as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman or The Flash. Cyborg might be closer to the GotG and Deadpool's level, but I think the other characters can cancel out his lower pop culture presence several times over.
I suspect internet journalists who are:
Partially looking for anything thing to justify their confirmation bias against BvS, as it's a sequel to MOS. A film which people were mixed on.
But Mostly Too impatient to wait the 35 days until the film comes out and actually render judgement. They want to be the first to break the story, any story they can on a movie nobody has seen yet.
I don't think it's going to fail, but I don't think it's going to be a huge success. If they're expecting fans of the Nolan films to go just because it's got Batman... well, I won't guarantee I'm representative of the broader audience, but I'm certainly not planning on seeing BvS.
Their trailers also looked like fun. BvS looks more like serious drama.
Neither did Superman...
Man of Steel was hated with a passion by a bunch of "critics" and a lot of loud people on the internet and it still did pretty well, so I don't think word of mouth will have much impact on this film either.
When it comes to general audiences I don't think they'll wait to see what the the consensus on it is, nor do I think it will have much of an impact on their decision to see it once, and after that they'll decide for themselves if the movie bears a repeat viewing, not by how much someone's angry about it on the interwebs.
