Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice movie thread for your reading pleasure 2 2

[Chetgunderson]

Batman looks chunky to me on the empire cover. Like a 50 year old ex-weight lifter

Edited January 28, 2016 by Chetgunderson

[nearmint]

 

That looks pretty darn great.

[Bosco685]

Batman V. Superman Forecast For $154 Million Opening Weekend

 

BoxOffice.com is projecting a $154 million opening weekend for Batman V Superman, which would slide it into the bottom of the top ten between a pair of Hunger Games movies. For context, a $154 million opening would be about double what the same site expects Deadpool to earn ($76 million) in its opening frame and would place the film between Spider-Man 3 ($113 million) and The Dark Knight ($158 million).

 

They suggest that the movie's projection could be artificially lower because of the glut of high-profile comics adaptations coming this year, starting with February's Deadpool and running all the way through Suicide Squad in August.

[Bosco685]

Batman V. Superman Prequel Cereal Comic Revealed

 

Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice prequel comic book, "Field Trip," has surfaced online.

 

In it, a school group is touring Wayne Enterprises, which is showing off scientific advancements to help against alien threats. "And we're very proud that our government has trusted Wayne Enterprises to examine the fascinating biotech weapons recovered in the wake of the Kryptonian attack on earth," their tour guide tells them.

 

An intrepid school reporter goes off on her own to try and land a scoop, but soon finds herself in danger when she comes across a group of thieves stealing Kryptonian tech from Wayne Enterprises. She hides from the criminals and is quickly greeted by Bruce Wayne, who tries to calm her nerves. Both of them are discovered by the crooks and taken hostage. Luckily, Superman shows up just as the baddies are exiting the building.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Bosco685]

25 interesting details from the ‘Batman v Superman’ issue of Empire magazine

 

The new March issue of Empire magazine is full of new Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice info.

• “You’ll tell me if you don’t want me to do it”, Zack Snyder said to Christopher Nolan. Nolan found it “a little bit hard” according to Snyder, but gave him is blessing to reinvent Batman. “Well, we don’t own these characters. When you’re done making Batman movies, someone else will”, Nolan said.
  
• Zack Snyder met with Josh Brolin and Richard Armitage for the role of Batman.
  
• Warner Bros. tried to prepare Ben Affleck for the inevitable backlash of his casting news. They showed him all the negative things that people said about previous Batman casting announcements, going back to Michael Keaton, where they received 50,000 angry letters.
  
• Affleck would have turned down the role if it were just a sequel to Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies.
  
• Batman’s voice is digitally altered by his cowl.
  
• Affleck and Snyder debated about film vs. digital on set. Snyder, like Christopher Nolan, is a big fan of film.
  
• The “desert Batman” scene is a dream sequence and takes place in Kandahar.
  
• Bruce Wayne lost people he was very close to during the Man of Steel destruction. People he could call family.
  
• Wayne Manor is burnt-out. Bruce and Alfred live in a lake house.
  
• Jeremy Irons’ Alfred is much more hands-on than any of the previous versions.
  
• Zack Snyder was impressed by Jesse Eisenberg’s performance in The Social Network, and cast him as Lex Luthor after originally meeting with him for a different role.
  
• Lex Luthor is witty and charming in public, but full of rage behind closed doors.
  
• Lex Luthor is is interested in metahuman existence, and Wonder Woman’s appearance comes from that interest.
  
• Zack Snyder says Wonder Woman’s introduction was organic, and made him realize how close they were to the Justice League movie.
  
• Wonder Woman is over 5,000 years old and gets forced out of retirement.
  
• Wonder Woman isn’t perfect, and can be “naughty” according to Gadot.
  
• Wonder Woman’s sexuality is part of her power, according to producer Deborah Snyder.
  
• Talks of doing a Batman vs. Superman movie next began just weeks before Man of Steel hit theaters.
  
• The Batmobile gets repaired at some point in the movie.
  
• Don’t expect Henry Cavill’s Clark Kent to be clumsy like Christopher Reeve’s. He doesn’t want to bring attention to himself.
  
• Clark and Lois Lane live together in a Metropolis apartment.
  
• Superman thinks that Batman’s brutal methods make him just as much a criminal as the freaks he locked up in Arkham. Superman doesn’t want to bully Batman, so he tries to expose him as Clark Kent in his newspaper articles.
  
• When Zack Snyder and Henry Cavill disagreed about Superman’s psychology, they would both do push-ups until someone gave in.
  
• Cavill put on 30lbs of muscle for this movie, and will go down to 10lbs between each movie.
  
• Lois Lane and Batman have a big action scene together that involving lots of wirework and special effects.
  

[drotto]

Batman V. Superman Forecast For $154 Million Opening Weekend

 

BoxOffice.com is projecting a $154 million opening weekend for Batman V Superman, which would slide it into the bottom of the top ten between a pair of Hunger Games movies. For context, a $154 million opening would be about double what the same site expects Deadpool to earn ($76 million) in its opening frame and would place the film between Spider-Man 3 ($113 million) and The Dark Knight ($158 million).

 

They suggest that the movie's projection could be artificially lower because of the glut of high-profile comics adaptations coming this year, starting with February's Deadpool and running all the way through Suicide Squad in August.

 

While good numbers, this has to be disappointing to WB if the projections hold. They are also saying $380 domestic Box Office. That will mean BvS will struggle to get to 1 bil worldwide.

[kagenish]

Batman V. Superman Forecast For $154 Million Opening Weekend

 

BoxOffice.com is projecting a $154 million opening weekend for Batman V Superman, which would slide it into the bottom of the top ten between a pair of Hunger Games movies. For context, a $154 million opening would be about double what the same site expects Deadpool to earn ($76 million) in its opening frame and would place the film between Spider-Man 3 ($113 million) and The Dark Knight ($158 million).

 

They suggest that the movie's projection could be artificially lower because of the glut of high-profile comics adaptations coming this year, starting with February's Deadpool and running all the way through Suicide Squad in August.

 

While good numbers, this has to be disappointing to WB if the projections hold. They are also saying $380 domestic Box Office. That will mean BvS will struggle to get to 1 bil worldwide.

if it makes $380 to $500 domestic box office, it would have no problem at hitting 1 billion worldwide. if remember i think MOS end under $800 worldwide that was just a superman movie and had mix reviews.

[sd2416]

I dont think this will have any problems hitting 1B

 

[Bosco685]

I dont think this will have any problems hitting 1B

 

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[Bosco685]

Man of Steel (2013)

Domestic: $291,045,518 (43.6%)

Foreign: $377,000,000 (56.4%)

Worldwide: $668,045,518

 

+ $170 MM in product placement revenue.

 

Superman is already a $170m brand superhero as Man of Steel tops the product placement charts

 

While promotional tie-ins and product placement are nothing new in Hollywood – James Bond has been requesting vodka martinis, driving an Aston Martin and consulting an Omega watch for 50 years – the sheer number of partners for Man of Steel is.

 

The clamour to reference products has been so strong that Warner Bros has almost 100 promotional partners lined up, which has earned it $170m (£109m) already.

[drotto]

These are Man of Steel's numbers. Well short of 1 bil. I think BvS is going to have a tough hill to climb.

 

 

Domestic: $291,045,518 43.6%

+ Foreign: $377,000,000 56.4%

= Worldwide: $668,045,518

 

If BvS keeps the same percentages as MoS for the divide between domestic and Foreign that give you these numbers....

 

 

Gives you $872 mil worldwide.

 

Domestic = $380 mil.

Foreign = $492 mil.

 

So it is already pegged as outperforming MoS in the estimates, but if the domestic holds at that 380 number, it must increase its foreign percentage to make it. So 1 bil based on the projections and MoS performance is going to make it hard.

[Bosco685]

Domestic: $291,045,518 43.6%

+ Foreign: $377,000,000 56.4%

= Worldwide: $668,045,518

 

These numbers look familiar.

 

[ComicConnoisseur]

I dont think this will have any problems hitting 1B

 

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I will go out on a limb.

1.104 billion.

That`s what the last Transformers movie did.

Superman and Batman can match or beat that.

 

[JayT]

Definitely zero problem hitting a billion IMHO. I suspect it will dwarf what the last Transformers did domestically, but we will see if it can match it's international box office. TF is gigantic worldwide.

[Bosco685]

If we use the 2015 comic book movies as a baseline, here is what the domestic:international ratios were.

 

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Domestic: $459,005,868 (32.7%)

Foreign: $946,408,000 (67.3%)

Worldwide: $1,405,413,868

 

Ant-Man

Domestic: $180,202,163 (34.7%)

Foreign: $339,048,616 (65.3%)

Worldwide: $519,250,779

 

Kingsman: The Secret Service

Domestic: $128,261,724 (31.0%)

Foreign: $286,089,822 (69.0%)

Worldwide: $414,351,546

 

Fantastic Four

Domestic: $56,117,548 (33.4%)

Foreign: $111,860,048 (66.6%)

Worldwide: $167,977,596

 

Not to assume all comic book movies will break out close to the same way. But if we use those ratios as a model, here is what it would take to hit $1 billion USD.

 

 

Based on the BvS forecasted estimate for the domestic box office, this seems achievable.

[Bosco685]

LATINO REVIEW EXCLUSIVE: Who Scoot McNairy Is Playing In BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE

 

 

Recently, rumors have resurfaced that McNairy is playing Superman comics character Jimmy Olsen, who was wounded when Superman took on Zod at the end of MAN OF STEEL. While part of that is correct--that the character was injured as a by product of Superman's actions--Scoot McNairy is NOT playing Jimmy Olsen.

 

According to our sources, McNairy's wheelchair-bound character will be brought in to testify against Superman to the U.S. Senate, but also becomes a victim of Lex Luthor's campaign against the Man of Steel. One of Luthor's schemes in the movie involves turning McNairy's character into a human bomb of sorts, radicalizing him, in an attempt to get him close to Superman and to hurt him.

 

[SkunkApe]

Batman V Superman Merchandise Gives A New Look At Aquaman, Wonder Woman & More

 

 

 

I dig it!

[comicjack]

Love the Aquaman

[BettrFastrStrongr]

Here we go with the box office talk again. Have fun fella's.

[Bosco685]

Here we go with the box office talk again. Have fun fella's.

 

Thanks. We will.