Green Lantern Finally Tops The $200 Million Mark

Good glad to hear it, hopefully WB learns a lesson and improves on the sequel, or they can hire me to write :)

Ok! It goes from massive fail to regular fail

hahah it only took how many weeks/months?

Good. Hopefully the Sequel is better

A profit to who?

One half the money receipt goes to the theater business, and foreign receipt will get taxed more than domestic. If you want to see barely profit, check out Captain America. Yeah Cap which has made $ 320 million on a 3/4 budget of GL is still a barely profitable enterprise. GL is still by definition a loss.

JohnTom88 - But they also have a video game & dvd's and other merchandising for cap so I think cap was a win.

CaptianOtter - Shhhhhh GL fans don't want to hear that

DC should just stick with Batman and Superman at the moment and when they finally put the two together on the screen job well done

JohnTom is right 100% of the money made in theaters don't come back into the pockets of WB to make up for the cost of production and advertisement.
AS for the DVD/BR sales, I can see WB selling GL quickly at a low price or as part of 2 for 1 sale, like they did for previous movies not doing as well as they could (Matrix Reloaded, Superman Returns)...

Rofl Finally Hooray!

yeah and Transformers 3 finally crossed the 1.1 billion dollar mark. suck it gl..

@GraphicCity Fine, but try to offset the money goes to the theaters. The equation is 1/2 the money receipt goes to the theaters.

If the barely profitable Cap is already that profitable as it doubled the money receipt and more ($325 M = 2 * $140 M budget + $ 45 M), Disney already announces Cap 2 by now like it has announced Thor 2.

The movie was a goddamn failure people. Yeah DVD sales will help but this movie freaking tanked. Shut up. Get over it. Move on. GL2 someday? who knows. but stop talking about this titanic blow hard pile of sh*t. Stop talking about profits, stop talking about who "got it" or not; it's pretty clear cut by now what a good CBM is. So stop saying stupid sh*t about stupid movies. Read some freaking comics or something or go to school, find something else to talk about.

About Time... WB, I love you but I feel you should of just released it all at once. GL is a very fun film however and I do look forward to an eventual sequel.

There won't be a sequel, the movie hasn't even broke even and it won't, it simply cost too much to make and distribute.

Batman in 1989 cost $35 million to make, it grossed over $250 million domestically yet WB accounts after all the payouts to producers, actors, distribution costs etc said the film actually made a $20 million loss! Purely because of the marketing costs were ridiculously high like Green Lantern, however the public attendance for ticket sales were obviously there because the movie grossed over $400 million worldwide so it got a sequel that was less aggressively marketed to make a better profit.

Green Lantern cost $200 million to make but they spent and extra $100 million on aggressive marketing domestically and another $75 million for international marketing. It's not even close to breaking even let alone making a profit and its made less than half what Batman made back in 1989 while costing nearly three times more to make! More importantly, the ticket sales worldwide are obviously not there, the audience numbers are low in the extreme with a meagre and embarrassing $90 million international gross. Not a chance in Hell this movie will get a sequel unless its straight to video and even if it does, it will not have the budget to look any better than this film did because it's made the biggest loss of any film this year!

For WB sake, cheap CGI tech is not available yet to make affordable yet believable space scene filled with interactive aliens.

My advice is to go with Flash and WW first, then reboot/reimagine GL around hopefully 2015. 2013 Flash, 2014 WW. Superman sequel and a cheaper Green Arrow movie somewhere in tandem.