Hi You Guys,
Here is why i think BVS DOJ will murder it in the box office in 2016.
First off let me start by saying that i saw Star Wars last week on Thursday 12:01 AM Premiere IMAX 3D and they played the BVS DOJ teaser . People lost it (having in mind everyone was dressed like a Jedi, Darth Vader dudes, a lot of Storm Troopers and one Princess Leia) and i didn't expect the first teaser to get any reaction out of them at all, having in mind there are now 2 full trailers and one sneak peek way better than the teaser.
The reactions were super positive, which leads me to believe that we form a lot of our opinions based on the internet blog rumors, which i can assure you are biased 98 %. I have seen people change their mind faster than Kim Kardashian changes men. One week they say its the most anticipated movie of 2016, then after seeing
Doomsday they are not as interested in it as much (looking at you John Campea Collider team).
Competition:
You can kid yourself as much as you want guys, but the only movie that was competition would have had its run by march and it's called Star Wars TFA.
Captain America Civil War is probably going to hit a Billion due to being marketed as an Avengers movie (yes dear geek i know the comic and the story line), but regular people don't see Captain America, they see Avengers let’s not kid ourselves. (Concept art reminds of AOU - which i don't consider a plus)
From non-nerds and people that don't really care about comics, i was left with the impression that
Age Of Ultron didn't left a very good impression to the general audience. It did good numbers but it’s not as beloved as the first one. Did
Ant-man and
Fantastic Four help the Marvel brand for non-nerd moviegoers, not really!
So pretend that you are a dude that has never read a comic book and only know
Marvel by the first red logo in front of the movies that we get from 3 studios. I can assure you people outside of this geek extravaganza don’t really know
Disney,
Fox, and
Sony are involved. They read Marvel and that’s it. So you have seen somewhat mixed quality movies with this red logo lately, do you go and see another one. I personally would skip it, but since i am a geek myself
NOT.
But non nerds loved the Nolan movies, they made so much money outside of any shared movie universe depending only on the
Batman mythos and i have been amazed to how many people loved it, that hate comic books and nerd-ier stuff.
Personally i think BVS DOJ will make less than Star Wars but beat all other movies in 2016.
X-Men Apocalypse is already getting attacked on many fronts, the villain look, the tone, the costumes etc.
I personally don’t think it will be a bad movie, but i don’t think it will be better box office wise than DOFP (747 Million).
Deadpool in my opinion will be the new hit, because we need that funny, witty relaxing type of movie every so often. Since it’s not generally admired or beloved i predict that it will make around 550-600 Million.
TMNT 2 i don’t think is in any competition here like at all, the first one could even top 500 Million, so no need to worry here at all.
Gambit is a huge risk in my own opinion, you are making a movie based on one of the less known X men based on the fact that Magic Mike will play him, well i know women love him but they don’t fill Superhero premieres, men do mostly and so far he hasn't led anything that much successful in the action genre. So at best i predict 400 Million here give or take.
Next up is
Dr. Strange, which by looking at the cast should be a good movie, there is a chance is they get to far off to Marvel formula, no jokes, no punchlines in the spirit of Joss W., no cute CGI animal or character and use a proper villain this time. If that is the case i have no idea how Marvel fans would react, they usually go for the easy, predictable, and commercial. To them everything DC does is dark and gritty (DD and JJ are not dark and gritty, they are just that good LOL).
It doesn’t really make sense but i would assume that some other Marvel big name is going to cameo so the profits boost to a let’s say 800 Million.
Then we have
Suicide Squad that i would have predicted to gross somewhere between 400 and 550 Million WW, however once DC/WB added The Joker and Batman in the mix i would bravely say 900 to a Billion based on that fact alone plus i think
David Ayer is a genius. Maybe it will gross less if it’s too dark and the kids don’t like it.
Now back to the main deal BVS, there is no doubt in my mind that a movie that starts pre sale of tickets in December for march 25 in EU will be a big deal and i am also aware that it’s not Star Wars, but i predict that it will beat the first Avengers Box Office by at least a 100-150 Million, this is something that a lot of people are waiting for a long time now. And whatever Marvel stans say in the comments below they know that they will see it as well, thus help the box office as well.
I personally am seeing this in IMAX 3D, IMAX and whatever 70mm option i get.
It’s time to face the music guys
Doomsday isn’t going to ruin this movie, this is the first DC movie that will not only nod to a bigger universe, but actually show us that world. A brand new shared comic book universe that doesn’t own 2 characters or one team of characters, but the entire DC universe.
People from the other side call Green Lantern garbage, but let me tell you this - it made as much as your shared Hulk movies made, the only difference is it didn’t have Bruce Wayne in the final scene telling Hal Jordan welcome to the JLA or some easy sell like that.
Its time you face it - 2016 belongs to DC.
Now let the HATE SPILL!