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My boxoffice forecast is that Wondy makes $4.5M this weekend, and will hit $388M by this Sunday.

WW will become the biggest summer movie of 2016, taking the crown away from Guardians of the Galaxy 2 in a huge upset win!

Yes, I'm a box office enthusiast.:D
 
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TREK_GOD_1 said:
But the only number that counts--global box office--has Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice as the highest grossing DC film of this new film universe, with $873,260,194 as opposed to Wonder Woman's $768,876,840. Still over 100 million behind, and overtaking that is unlikely to happen.
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I was just talking domestic numbers, but yes BvS has made the most worldwide of the DCEU films.

But WW going for $400M is damn impressive, BvS only ended with $330M domestic.
 
Frank Miller loved the Wonder Woman movie
"This has been the best period for superhero movies we ever had,"he explained. "I mean there was that wonderful sunburst of the first Christopher Reeves Superman movie. That was just a ray of sunshine. We’ve had ups and downs over the years. Now look at what we’ve got. Wonder Woman is the crown jewel." Deadline questioned his assertion that Wonder Woman was the crown jewel, where he said, "Without question. She is perfect."

After being asked about her, "cheesy origin," Miller went on to elaborate what made the film so great. "If I may, I think that was because of the old Lynda Carter TV show. That was a clunky old show, cute for its time and fun. But this movie managed to do everything right," he gushed. "The Israeli actress Gal Gadot, not only is she spectacularly beautiful but she’s heroic and she gets away with that costume. Having Chris Pine, the guy who used to be Captain Kirk, play Steve Trevor…he was impeccable in that role. Evil Nazis always work. I just thought they managed to have a real good rock ’em, sock ’em adventure movie with a genuine sense of mythology to it. The parts in Amazonia were breathtaking. Her mother, played by Connie Nielsen, she was just wonderful."
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She may have been 100 million behind last week, but BvS cost 101 million MORE to make.

Current numbers are found here.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/showdowns/chart/?id=dcuni.htm

Current worldwide estimates put WW's 8 week run at = 779,433, 279 vs BvS total run of 873,260,194. Subtract 101,000,000 from BvS to level the field and WW comes out 7 million ahead as of this weekend.

At this time in its run (8th weekend), BvS was making 138-240 thousand a day domestically whereas WW is estim to be making 1.2-1.9 million a day domestically.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/showdowns/chart/?view=daily&id=dcuni.htm

Numbers like those lead to screeching headlines like these.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/22/media/wonder-woman-sequel-dc-comics/index.html

:beer:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/‘wonder-woman’-becomes-top-grossing-summer-film-as-warner-bros-crosses-dollar1-billion-domestically/ar-AAoFNnM?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp

WW is still behind GotG worldwide, but taking 51 million off GotG's total take because it cost that much more to make means WW is only 29 million behind GotG's worldwide take.

Not bad for a 76 year old creation thought unable to carry her own film for decades.

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Speaking of age.... https://io9.gizmodo.com/wait-wonder-woman-is-how-old-in-batman-v-superman-1755177589 :razz:

Can't wait till November! :bolian:

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"More more or more less?"
"Probably more less."
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Wonder Woman has beaten GOTG2 this weekend for the summer boxoffice crown, and her next goal is $400 million domestic. There is the real possibly of her beating the first Spider-man's $403 million to get the record for biggest superhero origin movie!

Talk about fantastic legs!

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BvS had an enormous built-in audience because Superman and Batman are possibly the most well-known superheroes in the world.

Outside of North America, Wonder Woman isn't actually that well-known so that explains why her origin movie has to build an audience overseas first. The fact that the movie did as well as it did is nothing short of an amazing success, both domestically and world-wide.
 
I gave it a generous D. My girlfriend made me watch it, my displeasure was amplified by the fact that I had to watch it in a movie theater and I hate american movie theaters, they're so outdated and uncomfortable. The movie itself was boring and the story was stupid. I think there was one moment that made me smile, but all in all, definitely a flop.
 
It's good, but it's not much different that the other DC movies, so it would be really unusual to single it out at the industry awards.
 
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Warner Bros. is considering putting WW up for a nomination for Best Picture Oscar, and Patty Jenkins up for a Best Direct nomination.
I think it would be great if after all of this time, the first modern comic book movie to win or even just get a nomination for a Best Picture Oscar was one about a woman.
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Its a nonsensical notion on Warner Brothers part. Wonder Woman is an entertaining film, but its not the kind of movie/fantasy landmark such as Star Wars (nominated, but did not win) or 2003's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (won Best Picture). As much of a true breakthrough and epic as Superman (1978) was, even it was not nominated in the Academy's Best Picture category, so I doubt Wonder Woman would ever honestly be considered a BP contender. Of best of modern superhero films--Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Spider-Man 2 & The Dark Knight--only the latter broke through at the Oscars with the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Ledger. I find it hard to see a film not quite on that level doing better at the Academy Awards.
 
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JD said:
Warner Bros. is considering putting WW up for a nomination for Best Picture Oscar, and Patty Jenkins up for a Best Direct nomination.
I think it would be great if after all of this time, the first modern comic book movie to win or even just get a nomination for a Best Picture Oscar was one about a woman.
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I hope they do. They won't win because the Academy Award voters are snobs (and sometimes doofuses, based on articles about how some of them vote for things for the most out of nowhere reasons), but its easily one of the best films this year, so it would be nice to see it nominated even if "Artsy movie that the general audience didn't give a crap about #44359837943X3A" will inevitably win.
 
TREK_GOD_1 said:
Its a nonsensical notion on Warner Brothers part. Wonder Woman is an entertaining film, but its not the kind of movie/fantasy landmark such as Star Wars (nominated, but did not win) or 2003's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (won Best Picture). As much of a true breakthrough and epic as Superman (1978) was, even it was not nominated in the Academy's Best Picture category, so I doubt Wonder Woman would ever honestly be considered a BP contender. Of best of modern superhero films--Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Spider-Man 2 & The Dark Knight--only the latter broke through at the Oscars with the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Ledger. I find it hard to see a film not quite on that level doing better at the Academy Awards.
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It's a simple marketing decision, nothing more. Apparently they also campaigned for Superman Returns and the Dark Knight Rises.

And honestly, considering the list of Best Picture winners includes such entertaing but hardly special flicks as Chicago, Gladiator, Shakespeare in Love, Braveheart, Dances with Wolves and, of course, quite of few of all those old musicals (which were essentially the popcorn movies of their generation), I don't think a nomination for WW is at all out of line, even if its certainly no guarantee.
 
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