Jaydogrules

It is ludicrous and assuming it is real, an obvious extreme outlier at this point. In a traditional auction, I would imagine it would go for somewhere around $125k- still a ludicrous amount, but more in line with what down grades are doing. -J.

The 1:25 variant of the first printing is the rarest and most expensive of the publisher variants and has been for quite some time now. That one. -J.

Not too many opportunities to get a 0.5-.1.0 in a major GA grail. -J.

Thanks DK! Great result for a 1.0. -J.

This sale looks legit. Not a bad buy for an ebay purchase. Anyone know what the realized sales price was? https://www.ebay.com/itm/124891710901?hash=item1d142045b5:g:MnoAAOSwCrZhNmOY -J.

My understanding is that Spider-man is by far the biggest merchandise/ancillary seller of all heroes. -J.

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Venom should push to next year. You're right there's too much on that date. -J.

Holy cr p I can't believe how much this thing is looking to make. If this holds up that is waaaay more than I ever would have suspected. Maybe eternals will do better after all too. I would imagine spider-man/Bond will blow the doors off the box office at this point. -J.

Very cool. This image is so surrealistic and random, I mean like wtf did you do mickey? Lol -J.

Boy the #8 editorial variant has turned in to an absolute ghost over the last 2 years. -J.

I'm going to say 30-40MM tops on this one. We've actually already seen the whole "magical karate" thing on Iron fist and, to a somewhat lesser extent, on daredevil on Netflix. -J.

They said that about In the Heights too. -J.

I'm not getting into these weeds with you about this. But, yeah, if you have to bring up "product placement" to rationalize your movie as being an "easy success", then you've already lost the argument. Oh, and here's another article, to stop with this revisionist history on man of steel. Yes, the movie was an under-performer. Not by just a little. By a lot. Based on even the WB's brass own initial expectations and hype. https://variety.com/2013/film/news/warner-bros-sets-bar-high-for-latest-and-priciest-incarnation-of-superman-1200493334/ -J.

Tell that to these guys... https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.indiewire.com/2013/06/does-man-of-steel-need-to-make-1-billion-to-be-a-success-97206/amp/ -J.

Yeah that's all they wanted. That's exactly what I said. -J.

So is this your long, drawn out way of saying that Man of Steel "isn't" generally considered to have been an under-performer? Because it still was.... Carry on. -J.

Better title for perennial DC fanboy/apologist Scott mendelsons article- "If Shazam WASN'T a Flop, I wouldn't Have to be Writing This Article Trying to Convince People (Myself) That it Wasn't". Yes, Shazam was a flop. No, it didn't make any money. Yes, the same clueless WB studio bosses that green lit a second suicide squad and birds of prey movie are the same ones doubling down on the conditional failure of Shazam. Shazam only made 30MM in ancillary (home video). That's weak. There is simply no way to twist and contort Shazam into a "success" without looking totally delusional. To wit- Venom cost as much as Shazam to make. Venom made $850MM, 500MM more than Shazam. THAT was a profitable movie. Shazam was not. Sorry fans. -J.

Disney wanted the Fox properties primarily for the villains and X men. We will just have to hope they do right by the FF. Wonder Woman 1984 didn't even make the money Tenet did. TSS won't even make what the conjuring did. BofP was a flop even before Corona. And, as i mentioned above, Shazam was "at best" a serious under-performer. Corona or not DC would still be on a spectacular losing streak, audiences are just not very interested in these movies. -J.

Uh yeah, deadline is good for laughs sometimes, but often it is hard to discern exactly where they get their figures from. For example, Shazam would have cost around $200MM to make and market, so by my calculations of the typical splits as reported by MOJO, the film "maybe" cleared about $165MM theatrically. Which would make it a modest money loser theatrically. Even throwing in another 30MM from home video, according to The Numbers, still does not get it to profitability. Further, given that the film was expected to do 500MM, and didn't come anywhere near that, are all reasons enough to question the sanity of pizzing away so much money on an, at best, marginal IP. -J.

You make this sound like DC's losimg streak is either A) recent?, and B) Just started in the last 18 months. Even before Corona, Shazam was a modest money loser. So was man of steel. Then of course BvS and justice league was an outright disaster. In fact the only feathers in their cap are the first wonder woman (completed negated by the second one, and then some), Aquaman , and the first suicide squad (also completed negated by the second one, and then some). If you want to throw Joker in there as another rare "win" for them, so be it. But their misses far outnumber their wins, and for the life of me I cannot figure out why they are charging forward with not one but TWO Shazam sequels, when that movie, while generally well reviewed, did not make any money. It's like WB just enjoys pizzing away tens of millions of dollars, or something. -J.

The fist GotG was lightning in a bottle that has not been repeated since. Captain Marvel obviously benefited by being the "final chapter" in the MCU leading up to Endgame. Nothing will save marvel phase 4. It was going to be a turkey even without Corona. Hence why the went ballz out to get those high profile Fox properties. -J.

Would be much cheaper to just try for the CPR on your copy. -J.

1) Studios actually only average about 50% of North American. 2) Disney+ should be counted as an ancillary, not primary source of revenue. 3) Disney likely spent AT LEAST another $200MM on worldwide prints and multiple marketing campaigns putting the real cost of the film closer to $400MM. 🙄 Which means... That film, while not the bomb the suicide squad is, will certainly lose Disney a nice chunk of money, in the $50MM-$100MM range. -J.

Maybe WB execs are on these boards lol. https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/margot-robbie-harley-quinn-recast.html -J.