#Supergirl stands to lose $100 million after opening to just $68 million worldwide.
The DC Studios tentpole cost $170 million to produce and roughly $120 million to market. A source close to “Supergirl” says the movie would need to gross $300 million to break even at the box office. Some project the film's losses will be closer to $80 million if ticket sales can manage to hit $200 million.
“This was always going to be a tough hurdle for DC and Warner Bros. because Supergirl isn’t a character that has ever created an event-level blockbuster,” says analyst Jeff Bock of Exhibitor Relations. “Audience perception of ‘Supergirl’ was not good. This is just a case of the film wasn’t good enough to become an event.”
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😐……is this the new format at @warnerbros ? Fail miserably at your job and get rewarded with more work?
Fuck, no wonder they went bankrupt and had to sell the entire damn company.
'Supergirl' screenwriter Ana Nogueira is attached to write the script for multiple upcoming DC films
• 'Wonder Woman'
• 'Teen Titans'
"They’re all just such great characters, and I can’t believe I get to figure out what I would do with them"
(via @Variety)
#Supergirl is a “super-horrendous” comic book movie “with the worst script I can remember,” reads Variety’s review from @OwenGleiberman.
James Gunn said he wasn’t going into production on any movie until the script was rock-solid. For that was the overriding problem with the superhero overkill era: the films had lousy scripts, which served as grids for layering visual effects.
Gunn was right to want to take the comic-book genre back to the basics of well-structured screenwriting. So what has he done in his second DC outing? He’s given us a comic-book movie with the worst script I can remember.
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