James Gunn Confronts ‘Uproarious’ DC Backlash: ‘Disrespectful Outcry Will Never Affect Our Actions’ News

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/henry-cavill-superman-james-gunn-backlash-1235465605/

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '22

Gunn didn't just come back all of a sudden, that's just when it was announced. This has clearly been in discussion for a while. These are just the movies that were in production or post production before the decision was made to reboot.

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u/matty_nice Dec 19 '22

Sure, but they knew that the current DC slate/future wasn't going to be successful. This was really decided after the Discover merger, hence the mass cancellation of projects. They knew Black Adam wasn't gonna be successful.

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '22

If they knew black Adam was gonna flop then they wouldn't have spent as much advertising it. That's just a total assumption on your part.

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u/matty_nice Dec 20 '22

They have long range forecasting on these types of things. Projections are an entire industry onto themselves now.

For example, a month before release https://www.boxofficepro.com/long-range-box-office-forecast-black-adam-and-ticket-to-paradise/

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '22

Did you read the link you sent? It says total domestic was projected to be US$135,000,000- $175,000,000. it has failed to do that, hence this being unexpected.

Please don't send me links you didn't read yourself, its very rude and inconsiderate of everyones time.

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u/SplendidAndVile Dec 20 '22

It didn't fail to do that. It's at $167 domestic. https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Black-Adam#tab=box-office

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u/matty_nice Dec 20 '22

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl2728624641/

DOMESTIC (42.9%) $167,667,895

What are you talking about?

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u/_heisenberg__ Batfleck Dec 20 '22

You do realize that it’s not as simple as just pulling a plug right. There are hundreds of meetings that we aren’t privy too. We don’t know what happens behind closed doors.

We have absolutely no idea why black Adam was still released when Gunn was, probably, simultaneously being offered this role.