@Sue-Yin said:

On a completely different note, things don't look good for JL. It underperformed last weekend ($93,842,239) and the predictions were already low ($110-120,000,000) for a film with a superhero team. They were even lower than the predictions for BvS ($120-140,000,000).

No amount of amazing abs, biceps and gorgeous square jaws can save this film.

The biggest film in the DCEU will be the biggest flop.

JL 24 days
USA box office: $212,129,668

Other DCEU film
24 days USA box office

• $318,111,468 (2017 Wonder Woman)
  
• $311,330,086 (2016 BvS)
  
• $283,021,066 (2016 Suicide Squad)
  
• $271,188,450 (2013 MOS)

On the bright side - the RT score is 40%.

Oh wow, I saw more minutes of JL, and HC looks as if he has a broken jaw or something. He was so busted looking, if I were HC, I would be pissed!

@Poetist said:

Oh wow, I saw more minutes of JL, and HC looks as if he has a broken jaw or something. He was so busted looking, if I were HC, I would be pissed!

From the beginning of the movie his face seemed off. I believe those who work in th special effects department were just as pissed because this sort of thing puts a dent on their reputation.

@Sue-Yin said:

@Sue-Yin said:

On a completely different note, things don't look good for JL. It underperformed last weekend ($93,842,239) and the predictions were already low ($110-120,000,000) for a film with a superhero team. They were even lower than the predictions for BvS ($120-140,000,000).

No amount of amazing abs, biceps and gorgeous square jaws can save this film.

The biggest film in the DCEU will be the biggest flop.

JL 24 days
USA box office: $212,129,668

Other DCEU film
24 days USA box office

• $318,111,468 (2017 Wonder Woman)
  
• $311,330,086 (2016 BvS)
  
• $283,021,066 (2016 Suicide Squad)
  
• $271,188,450 (2013 MOS)
  

With inflation

• $318,111,468 (2017 Wonder Woman)
  
• $319,971,838 (2016 BvS)
  
• $290,877,029 (2016 Suicide Squad)
  
• $287,150,777 (2013 MOS)

@ToniTurnyne said:

@Poetist said:

Oh wow, I saw more minutes of JL, and HC looks as if he has a broken jaw or something. He was so busted looking, if I were HC, I would be pissed!

From the beginning of the movie his face seemed off. I believe those who work in th special effects department were just as pissed because this sort of thing puts a dent on their reputation.

As well it should, I mean come on! If that's the best CGI that could have been done under the circumstances, hair and makeup should have just plastered that stache on his face and applied some pancake makeup.

@Sue-Yin said:

The biggest film in the DCEU will be the biggest flop.

JL 24 days
USA box office: $212,129,668

Other DCEU film
24 days USA box office

• $318,111,468 (2017 Wonder Woman)
  
• $311,330,086 (2016 BvS)
  
• $283,021,066 (2016 Suicide Squad)
  
• $271,188,450 (2013 MOS)

"I hear from credible financial sources who have sharp knowledge of Justice League's budget that if the film clears $700-$750 million global, after ancillaries, it will turn a profit, but not much," the report said. Link to article

"I hear from credible financial sources who have sharp knowledge of Justice League's budget that if the film clears $700-$750 million global, after ancillaries, it will turn a profit, but not much," the report said. Link to article

Ancillaries are hard to estimate, particularly when you try to define what’s included in it and there are limited references that openly publish them. (I’ve only seen video earnings and the occasional leaks.) Movies can still get many forms of income long after it ended their run. One movie accountant once told me that film studios get reports about the earnings of their movies decades after they ended their cinema run. The example he showed to me was Jaws (I think). When that movie came out, no one heard of the concept of home videos (Beta, VHS, VCDs, DVDs, Blu-ray) or streaming. No one thought of them being shown on TV channels around the world. Yet the movie earned lots of money everytime new technology comes out. A lot of movies make more money from ‘ancillaries’ than their movie run.

For this year though, and for its theatrical run JL is underperforming. If so, I guess some of the JL actors won’t be getting much in back pay or their cut in the profits for a while.

@AnnaB said:

HC will always be my sweet white chocolate. LOL

But I'm excited to see Wonder Woman again. Well I was before I read GGs post about sexual harassment.

If she thinks sexual harassment is unacceptable, why pose smiling with BA?

BA sexually harassed two women. He also knew about that pig Harvey Weinstein, but he kept quiet and the money. Read here and here.

Now that he has enough money and doesn't need Pig Weinstein anymore he will donate future profits from his Weinstein and Miramax projects to charities. Read here.

Recently he made a joke about sexual harassment. Read here.

BA is not sincere. He should quit the farce.

You will love this. Matt Damon defends Ben and Casey Affleck in an interview for ABC News.

Ben

I do believe that there’s a spectrum of behavior, right? And we’re going to have to figure — you know, there’s a difference between, you know, patting someone on the butt and rape or child molestation, right? Both of those behaviors need to be confronted and eradicated without question, but they shouldn’t be conflated, right?

Casey

Ten years ago, you made a claim against me and I had a big movie coming out, OK? I have $100 million or I have a movie that is personally important to me coming out, and close to the release of that film, you say, “Matt Damon grabbed my butt and stuck his tongue down my throat.” We would then go to mediation and organize a settlement. I’d go, “I don’t want this out there. Peter’s going to go out and talk to the press and run his mouth, and it’s going to be overshadowing the opening of this movie. How much money do you want?” The lawyers would get together, and they do this cost-benefit analysis, and they’d go, “Oh, this is what it’s worth.” And I look at the number and go, “OK, I’ll pay it, but you can never talk about this again. You’re f------ lying about this, but never talk about this again.

Petition on Care2 to remove Matt Damon from Oceans 8.

There is a petition for everything.

@ComicBookGuy said:

Petition on Care2 to remove Matt Damon from Oceans 8.

The focus should be on George Clooney. He also knew about Harvey Weinstein.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/4759442/george-clooney-hypocrite-over-harvey-weinstein-sex-scandal/

George is one of the producers of O8. He should give his share of the profit to charity or people should boycott the film.

@Mike4U said:

@Sue-Yin said:

WB had enough time to change the tone of their superhero extended universe. They knew the SM fans were unhappy. They knew critics wanted less darkness and more humor. What did they do? They let ZS continue with his hopeless, depressing vision anyway. Well the test audiences were disgusted by the end product. Four months before the release, they decided to do two months of reshoots to cram jokes and more SM in the film. Not enough time to do the CGI right.

Why WB kept ZS and why they couldn't push JL.

Warner Bros. executive Greg Silverman, whose support of Zack Snyder is described as being “laissez faire,” to the point where he didn’t even offer script notes to the director.

The studio kept Snyder on board, and part of the reason for this was to maintain an image that everything was under control, and they knew what they were doing.

Much has been made of the digital (and awkward) removal of Cavill’s mustache from his reshoot scenes. Had the visual effects department had more time, they could’ve done a better job,

... in addition to keeping up appearances, there were more personal, financial stakes on the line for honchos Kevin Tsujihara and Toby Emmerich.

“… If they pushed the movie, then their bonuses would have been pushed to the following year and they might not still be at the studio,” an insider told the trade.

Indeed, part of the problem looming over all this is boring business stuff, with AT&T‘s acquisition and valuation of Warner Bros. weighing on the decision-making process.

As one insider notes, shortly after Snyder approved of Joss Whedon to come in and help lighten up the tone, “It stopped being a good situation on any level.”

Snyder is no longer involved with Warner Bros. superhero movies, but remains at the studio developing the war drama “The Last Photograph.”

Whedon is said to still be working on “Batgirl.”

https://theplaylist.net/justice-league-fell-apart-20171130/

Thanks for postng this article.

@ComicBookGuy said:

@Sue-Yin said:

The biggest film in the DCEU will be the biggest flop.

JL 24 days
USA box office: $212,129,668

Other DCEU film
24 days USA box office

• $318,111,468 (2017 Wonder Woman)
  
• $311,330,086 (2016 BvS)
  
• $283,021,066 (2016 Suicide Squad)
  
• $271,188,450 (2013 MOS)

"I hear from credible financial sources who have sharp knowledge of Justice League's budget that if the film clears $700-$750 million global, after ancillaries, it will turn a profit, but not much," the report said. Link to article

JL won't make $750 million global.

@HCFan said:

You will love this. Matt Damon defends Ben and Casey Affleck in an interview for ABC News.

Ben

I do believe that there’s a spectrum of behavior, right? And we’re going to have to figure — you know, there’s a difference between, you know, patting someone on the butt and rape or child molestation, right? Both of those behaviors need to be confronted and eradicated without question, but they shouldn’t be conflated, right?

Casey

Ten years ago, you made a claim against me and I had a big movie coming out, OK? I have $100 million or I have a movie that is personally important to me coming out, and close to the release of that film, you say, “Matt Damon grabbed my butt and stuck his tongue down my throat.” We would then go to mediation and organize a settlement. I’d go, “I don’t want this out there. Peter’s going to go out and talk to the press and run his mouth, and it’s going to be overshadowing the opening of this movie. How much money do you want?” The lawyers would get together, and they do this cost-benefit analysis, and they’d go, “Oh, this is what it’s worth.” And I look at the number and go, “OK, I’ll pay it, but you can never talk about this again. You’re f------ lying about this, but never talk about this again.

Add this:

Damon's revelation that he learned about Weinstein's behaviour from Affleck, conflicts with the Argo director’s initial statement on the scandal. Affleck, 45, made no mention of any knowledge of crimes by the producer. He said: “I am saddened and angry that a man who I worked with used his position of power to intimidate, sexually harass and manipulate many women over decades.”

Liars. Well deserved backlash.