To quote Spock: "Fascinating"
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Jayhawk777 — 9 years ago(January 17, 2017 10:26 PM)
To quote Spock: "Fascinating"
http://lrmonline.com/news/dceu-the-wbs-bizarre-bookkeeping-strikes-again-as-banned-producer-made-50m-on-man-of-steel
"Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice needed to make something like $900-$920 million in order to be profitable, meaning the $827M it made actually leaves Warner Bros. in the red!"
A new report from The Hollywood Reporter reveals exactly what kinds of practices often lead Warner Bros. to doing anything but "laughing all the way to the bank" when their movies fail critically but seemingly do so well financially.
Producer Jon Peters, famous in fanboy circles for all of his deranged ideas trying to reboot the Superman franchise with Superman Lives, has apparently been collecting fat checks for DC movies he's had practically nothing to do with! How much money has he been making? Try this on for size: Man of Steel made $668 million worldwide. $50 million of that went to Peterswho was banned from the set by Christopher Nolan!!Let that sink in for a moment.
Peters confirmed to THR that he pocketed around $85 million for the last two standalone Superman movies. "I have 7.5 percent of the gross," said Peters of the sick deal he had with Warner Bros.
This all points to the fact that, in general, Warner Bros. needs to take a long, hard look at the deals it cuts.
For fans of all kinds of DC films that have seemingly "under-performed," like Superman Returns and Dawn of Justice, it's unfair for these beloved properties to face such steep uphill battles before they've even started filming. There's no reason a movie that made $827 million shouldn't be seen as an unequivocal victory. These practices lead to rash decisions by WB/DC to "fix" what was wrong- sometimes misdiagnosing what the problem was, in their haste to make a bigger payday next time.Examples of misdiagnoses:For Superman Returns, WB decided the problem was that the character of Superman needed to be reinvented in ways that were "darker and more complex with more action," so we got a reboot instead of the action-packed sequel Bryan Singer was planning on making, Man of Steel. When Man of Steel got reviewed far worse than Superman Returns did, polarized the fan base, and only made $36 million more than SR did domestically when adjusted for inflationWarner Bros. seemingly decided it was just because today's fans don't seem to like Superman anymore. So they took his sequel and turned it into a vehicle to introduce Batman, Wonder Woman, and the rest of the Justice League, instead of giving us a Man of Steel 2.When Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice got destroyed by critics, got "Meh" ratings from fans, and ended up making less than Christopher Nolan's last two standalone Batman moviesWarner Bros. decided the problem was "the tone." So now we're treated to quote-after-quote about WB/DC adjusting the tone of their movies, which wasn't really what people didn't like about the movie. -
Jayhawk777 — 9 years ago(January 26, 2017 05:38 PM)
Do these yuppies ever learn anything? With Wonder Woman and JL apparently so bad that they can't even fix them and the Flash script being so bad it was thrown away after it drove away three directors, who exactly is running the WB and how severe is their addiction?
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Conan-1982 — 9 years ago(February 14, 2017 03:31 AM)
They can't close youtube channels like Midnight's Edge so these news will keep coming one way or another (as long as studios keep doing stupid things): we just won't be able to laugh at it all together, that's all.