It's great to be a Comic-Book fan, right ? A lot of fans are excited for what Companies gonna bring these Comic characters to life via cinematic movies, to see from characters like Wonder Woman be adapted in cinematic form for 1st time, to characters like Black Panther to Justice League team, etc.
However in every Comic-Book and mainstream people's heart, they're worried about one aspect: "How they will peform."
That issue worries most people about whether their favorite movie gonna under-perform, or gonna be success (both critically and financially).
While it's too soon to talk about these movies from 2018 to future, 2017 and 2016 CBMs are coming closer so why not predict these movies !?
Lets take a look:
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2016
A) DEADPOOL
Company: Fox/Marvel
Date: February 2016
Opening Weekend: 80$ Million
World-Wide: 585$ Million
Reception: 90% Rotten Tomatoes
RT Consensus: "Deadpool is an entertaining and fun Movie with mature jokes and enjoyable plot, differing from most superheroes."
Reason of the Prediction: While Fant4stic bombed critically and financially, i feel this is not going to happen for Fox's Deadpool. Maybe the character was ruined back in X-men Origins, but seeing how Deadpool is faithful to its comic roots and Reynolds look awesome in character, thanks to that leaked footage to Green-light such a project. I have great feeling about the movie, so it may surprise and save Fox from Fant4stic.
I see it's R-rated movie, but Deadpool could perform strong at Box-office if good mouth of words gonna be said for the movie's reception.
B) BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE
Company: Warner Bros/DC
Date: March 2016
Opening Weekend: 260$ Million
World-Wide: 1.930$ Billion
Reception: 96% Rotten Tomatoes
RT Consensus: "With Affleck and Terrio's presence in project, Snyder's first and well-written masterpiece sets a new Dawn for Comic-Book movies."
Reason of the Prediction: Before cutting me with knives, it may sound too high for such a movie like this. However Warner Bros. are trying as best as possible to make the movie Justice, and even delayed it for 8 months (originally 10 months, before swaping to March date), so they take their time and make it work so great.
With Affleck getting cast as Caped Crusander, he even brought his friend Chris Terrio to re-write David Goyer's script, whom gets praised by people such as Affleck himself, Jesse Eisenberg, etc.
If the rumors of "Standing-Ovation" for the movie's special screening be true, the movie has not only potential to be one of the best Comic-Book movies but it'll make Affleck's Batman become "the definitive Batman" and sign up for a new Batman Trilogy.
Still we should not judge until the movie premieres but with excellent words of mouth from the project and Terrio's script, we should expect Snyder's first successful movie.
Despite these, there's no denying that it'll kill it at Box-Office and might even do many records.
C) CAPTAIN AMERICA CIVIL WAR
Company: Disney/Marvel
Date: May 2016
Opening Weekend: 190$ Million
World-Wide: 1.440$ Billion
Reception: 84% Rotten Tomatoes
RT Consensus: "While being an improvement over Age of Ultron, Marvel's Civil War still lacks character development with many Marvelous characters, however works very well for its own."
Reason of the Prediction: Marvel Studio's move about turning Captain America 3 into Civil War, was a shock for many Marvel fans since not a lot of people expect Civil War come sooner than we thought. With such an important story-line coming, we should see this movie "more of an Avengers movie, but with Cap being the main focus."
Oh i said more of an Avengers movie, right !? Well it seems Avengers members (except Thor, "deceased" Quicksilver, and Hulk, although Bruce Banner might make a cameo or surprising appearance as Hulk for a short time) are returning. Not only new-comer Ant-Man returns, but also this movie will debut Black Panther and importantly Marvel's icon Spider-Man.
Like Age of Ultron, there's a big hype. With a lot of characters appearing in the movie, should we expect Civil War become the most serious Marvel movie or be another funny movie with one-liner Jokes ?
Time will tell, but i predict it'll be one of Marvel's bests since Winter Soldier, although not as good as that. Plus it's Marvel, so it'll make big moneys as well.
D) X-MEN APOCALYPSE
Company: Fox/Marvel
Date: May 2016
Opening Weekend: 135$ Million
World-Wide: 970$ Million
Reception: 85% Rotten Tomatoes
RT Consensus: "Once again Mutants return to golden level with Singer's directing, delivering a well-made X."
Reason of the Prediction: X-men proved to be successful like those old days, with Bryan Singer (who began this franchise) returning as Director. So there's still high hopes for Apocalypse as well.
While it's anticipated high that fan-favorite Apocalypse is getting live-action treatment, it wasn't that great when the design revealed for Apocalypse set many fans on fire, who felt dissappointed in the design. It should be noted that Apocalypse can change his body and appearance (if i'm not wrong, since i'm not that X-men expert lol), so maybe he can change into the villain we all recognize.
While i doubt it'll be as good as Days of Future Past, i bet it'll make more money than DOFP did in Box-Office.
E) TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: HALF-SHELL
Company: Paramount/Mirage
Date: June 2016
Opening Weekend: 91$ Million
World-Wide: 642$ Million
Reception: 54% Rotten Tomatoes
RT Consensus: "Turtles Shell set a huge improvement over previous titles, but turned in half as a soild movie yet lacking character development with decent script."
Reason of the Prediction: Turtles have returned to live-action after 2 decades since 1993, yet failed to expectations which went down-hill for its sequel, releasing in 2016. However the fuel of worries are still on, which goes to Michael Bay's presence in the movie like he had in 1st one, who is known for ruining Transformers. At-least the director has changed, so hopefully that improves.
While i feel it won't be a really great movie, at-least it'll be much better than first one (and probably other movies including classic series and animated 2007 movie) considering classical characters are gonna be featured such as Casey Jones, Bebop and Rocksteady as well as more "True" Shredder and Karai than 1st movie.
Despite critically thought of this, it's not strange that first movie was successful at Box-office, drawing 485$ Million. So maybe the sequel will gross much more.
F) SUICIDE SQUAD
Company: Warner Bros/DC
Date: August 2016
Opening Weekend: 120$ Million
World-Wide: 895$ Million
Reception: 87% Rotten Tomatoes
RT Consensus: "David Ayer's mature and action-driven take on Suicide Squad, made it one of DC's best and well-dveloped especially with its mind-blowing performance by Jared Leto."
Reason of the Prediction: Deny it or not, one of the most Anticipated movies of 2016 is none other than Suicide Squad, a DC-Comics team working for Government to survive by completing missions and if they don't, they're gonna cost their lives.
While it's great to hear characters like Harley Quinn, Deadshot, Killer Croc, Amanda Waller and many others are gonna be adapted in live-action, most of the hype goes to the new version of Joker, played by Jared Leto.
After the late Heath Ledger's legendary take on Joker in Nolan's realistic universe, it's hard to see any actors do as justice as Ledger. However with Leto's talented acting and staying in Character, he may be as great as Ledger, if not even surpassing him.
On the other side, David Ayer is a very well director known for his works such as Fury so it made sense to have him as director of this bloody DC movie. In my opinion, DC might easily have another "WIN" card for Suicide Squad movie.
On Box-office numbers, i could say it might not do as big as Dawn of Justice. But with Joker's legacy, it could do big numbers for sure.
G) GAMBIT
Company: Fox/Marvel
Date: October 2016
Opening Weekend: 50$ Million
World-Wide: 370$ Million
Reception: 61% Rotten Tomatoes
RT Consensus: "X-men's recent spin-off wasn't as great as hoped, but still turned out as a soild film with Tatum's fine performance as title character."
Reason of the Perdiction: I guess it's cruel to predict a movie that has no stills, pics, trailers, and details. But the casting announcement of Channing Tatum as Gambit, seemed a bit negative since some fans wanted Taylor Kitsch to respire his role as the character (like Ryan Reynolds did for Deadpool movie) and some thought Taum is not a great actor for the role. Until the movie, we can't judge whether Channing wins everybody's heart or not.
Anyway despite the characters, i have feeling it'll be a solid movie and not that as amazing as other CBMs of 2016. Also it'll make a soild Box-office numbers. I have very low expectations for this, who knows maybe it'll turn out better.
H) DOCTOR STRANGE
Company: Disney/Marvel
Date: November 2016
Opening Weekend: 92$ Million
World-Wide: 715$ Million
Reception: 86% Rotten Tomatoes
RT Consensus: "Marvel's new title is an absolutely enjoyable and fun movie, with strange capturing sense of Doctor Stephen. Also a part of its highlights goes to its Strange magics."
Reason of the Prediction: Like Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant-Man, Doctor Strange is one of the Marvel's new characters to get the cinematic form, separate from Avengers. The character and his universe is kind of interesting to watch in live-action, especially going to Strange and different dimensions as well as exploring more Magic theme of MCU.
Plus the main character has an talented actor Bendict Cumberbatch, so hope he can do justice as how Robert Downey Jr did as Iron Man.
The director of this movie Scott Derrickson is known for Horror movies, so he can bring that strange aspect to Doctor Strange movie. For Box-Office, i feel it could do much more than Ant-Man did but less than Guardians of the Galaxy.
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2017
I) POWER RANGERS REBOOT
Company: Lionsgate
Date: January 2017
Opening Weekend: 79$ Million
World-Wide: 410$ Million
Reception: 75% Rotten Tomatoes
RT Consensus: "Mighty Morphin came back as a well-made and entertaining reboot, returning to its original roots."
Reason of the Prediction: The Franchise has been in everyone's childhood, so hearing the reboot on way made everyone excited.
Meanwhile most reboots fail to do as great as original, i've a feeling this reboot might get it right and be a good Power Rangers feature film. It's been promised that like source material, the reboot will be a completely playful, and it needs to be really fun and funny. But it's going to feel very grounded in a real world, with real characters going through real things (something like TDK trilogy). Hopefully it'll deliver and make Power Rangers have a great spot in cinema.
For Box-Office, it could do a soild money if it turns out well.
J) THE WOLVERINE 3
Company: Fox/Marvel
Date: March 2017
Opening Weekend: 99$ Million
World-Wide: 705$ Million
Reception: 79% Rotten Tomatoes
RT Consensus: "Hugh Jackman's last turn as the title character, have made a successful farewell that everyone remembers for years."
Reason of the Prediction: Maybe one of the most anticipated movies of 2017, because the third solo film of the Wolverine features Hugh Jackman for last time, before saying good bye officially.
Expectations are high for this movie, that many hope it'll be success and even bring the classical Suit. The movie's plot is rumored to be influenced by "Old Man Logan", since Jackman is in mid-40s. Talking about Box-Office, it could do near to Days of Future Past numbers.
K) GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOl. 2
Company: Disney/Marvel
Date: May 2017
Opening Weekend: 140$ Million
World-Wide: 1.100$ Billion
Reception: 93% Rotten Tomatoes
RT Consensus: "Guardians of the Galaxy delivered another epic-adventure with more depth, visuals, heart while keeping the tone from the previous movie."
Reason of the Prediction: Who thought that Marvel's riskiest project would turn out as a successful movie ? Many people were surprised with Guardians being a huge hit critically and financially.
Therefore expectations for the sequel went high as hell, to see if it even improves or under-performs compared to first movie. I predict that the sequel could do bigger and better, while focusing on character development, heart, and relationship between the members.
So gaining nearly 775$ Million world-wide was big for 1st movie, it could be expected that the sequel will gross much more than that and eventually joining One-Billion dollar club.
?) FANTASTIC FOUR 2
Note: While there are rumors circling around the sequel could be cancelled and the rights return to Marvel Studios, Fox might go still forward with Fant4stic's sequel. It's still not known whether it'll be replaced by Deadpool 2 or not, so this will be written for now.
Company: Fox/Marvel
Date: June 2017
Opening-Weekend: 23$ Million
World-Wide: 185$ Million
Reception: 5% Rotten Tomatoes
RT Consensus: "You either die a hero or live long enough yourself to become the villain, which is basically happening for Fox's reboot sequel with its dull and wasted performances as well as terrible script."
Reason of the Prediction: Since the first day, many predicted that Fox's reboot of Marvel's first family was indeed mistake and could do much worse than Originals. And later, they were actually right, it flopped critically and financially badly.
It's interesting that Fox is still going forward with its sequel releasing in 2017, even if it flopped hard and the company wants to change the Director, after what issues happened between Josh Trank and company (or even stars like Miles Teller).
In my opinion, Fox once again chooses to make another mistake by delivering a sequel to one of the worst CBMs and this could be a Big loss for the company. Fox have yet to reach 100$ Million in North America for first movie so with even bad words of mouth, the sequel could do much worse critically and financially.
L) WONDER WOMAN
Company: Warner Bros/DC
Date: June 2017
Opening-Weekend: 153$ Million
World-Wide: 1.310$ Billion
Reception: 94% Rotten Tomatoes
RT Consensus: "DC Comics Amazonian Princess turned the female super-heroes films from mess, to a special level that is considered as one of the best of the bests."
Reason of the Prediction: Female Superheroes have been put in shame, since the films such as Catwoman and Elektra flopped critically and financially that none of the directors ever wanted to touch them.
However this might be changed with Wonder Woman, the most well-known Superheronie. Like Ben Affleck's take as Batman, nobody is sure that how Gal Gadot will perform as Wonder Woman in Dawn of Justice; however if it's promised that She's gonna steal the show and her performance be mind-blowning, expect Gadot become successful and rise into A-list actresses.
Plus this is the first feature cinematic film ever of this character, after nearly 75 years debut. So expectations are so high, that it could do huge and monsterous numbers at Box-Office.
M) SPIDER-MAN
Company: Disney/Marvel
Date: July 2017
Opening-Weekend: 132$ Million
World-Wide: 935$ Million
Reception: 84% Rotten Tomatoes
RT Consensus: "Marvel Studios finally did justice to amazing Wall-Crawler since Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2, with talented cast and great script yet little dull at sometimes."
Reason of the Prediction: Poor Spidey, we should feel bad for him that he's gonna be rebooted for second time, after what Spider-Man 3 and Amazing Spider-Man 2 did to their own franchise.
But it's amazing to hear that everyone's favorite Spidey finally returned home and gonna be played by Tom Holland, a talented young actor. Expectations are high for Spider-Man reboot, although there are fears that the movie could turn out as another TASM2. But i believe we're going to have a great movie of Spidey since Sam Raimi's beloved Spider-Man 2, and maybe Tom gonna be better than Tobey and Andrew if he surprises the world, or else be lower than them.
Spider-Man movies are always known as Box-Office killers, so maybe with Marvel Studios brand on it, the movie could do nearly 950$ Million.
N) THOR RAGNAROK
Note: The release-date in above picture, was before Spider-Man solo be set in MCU's Phase 3 slot. Now this movie has moved to November 2017.
Company: Disney/Marvel
Date: November 2017
Opening-Weekend: 128$ Million
World-Wide: 885$ Million
Reception: 88% Rotten Tomatoes
RT Consensus: "Marvel's god of thunder has been able to work at its best, with fantastic visuals and its incredible depth into Norse mythology."
Reason of the Prediction: Thor wasn't as lucky as his two friends Captain America and Iron Man, since his feature films performed less than their movies critically and financially. But that's going to change with Thor's 3rd entry that gonna be about Ragnarok, an apoclaypse event that could lead into Asgard's end with possible appearance of Thor's fan-favorite, Surtur.
With this movie, it has potential to visit all nine realms, which weren't focused that much in 2 previous movies. Thor Ragnarok might have chance to be much better than Dark World and first one.
Despite that, it can't change the fact that it might reach nearly 900$ Million in my opinion, much less than possible Civil War and Iron Man 3's gross numbers (possible 1.440$ Billion and 1.215$ Billion).
O) JUSTICE LEAGUE I
Company: Warner Bros/DC
Date: Late 2017 (Unknown month)
Opening Weekend: 245$ Million
World-Wide: 2.450$ Billion
Reception: 90% Rotten Tomatoes
RT Consensus: "The League have went beyond justice, with its spectacular cast and impressive script written by Terrio. Zack Snyder has another master-piece in his hands with visual-tastic work."
Reason of the Prediction: Warner Bros. returned Zack Snyder for this movie, with Chris Terrio leading as screen-writer (who was praised by cast for his script for Dawn of Justice).
Like Avengers, DC Comics superhero team Justice League have been anticipated for decades to seeing likes of Batman, Superman, Flash, and others in same screen, which is going to happen 2 years later so it's gonna be a monster at Box-Office.
Despite that, its reception depends on Dawn of Justice's, so hopefully it deliver all that hype it got for decades.
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So here you go, this is what i think about how upcoming Comic-Book movies gonna perform critically and financially. So hopefully you all don't kill me if some numbers were too high or low for fellow movies. Thanks for reading and hope to hear some feedback!