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Unfortunately, it's box office legs got crushed Avengers Endgame and Captain Marvel. Massive -66% drop...


Ouch! I knew it was in a bad spot between 2 juggernauts in Endgame and Captain Marvel but this is really sad news for such a great DC film. It's already fallen behind Captain Marvel and that was released 3 weeks earlier! What were Warner Bros thinking with this release strategy?

Looks like it's run is ending fairly quickly :(

https://deadline.com/2019/04/avengers-endgame-opening-weekend-box-office-record-1202602445/

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It's unfortunate. It's one of the DCCU's best movies. Obviously, that doesn't say much but I really wanted DC to have success with this one.

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Yeah, it's unfortunately a big disappoint for them considering how good the movie was. There was so much buzz especially with the it barely scrapped $360 million. With a $100 million budget and $100M spent in advertising, it needed to make at $400 million so I don't think it's going to reach that at all :(

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It will gross over $350m on a $100m budget. Still has weeks left.

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Don't forget the $300m marketing

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Well, at least $150M marketing.

It will make money, just not as much as it could have if released a few weeks ahead of CM.

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Where did you hear it cost that much? Thats probably triple the actual number from what I've seen.

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I have no idea what they spent and am just a bit tired of the monetary comparisons in general.

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It is WB/DC we are talking about and they are dumb. They got lucky with Nolan and the already forgotten Dark Knight Trilogy. After that they got really dumb.

Why the release strategy, you ask, because they got cocky with Aquaman and believed they had climbed back to the top of Olympus when Aquabro was only a fluke. Not even their really best movie, Wonder Woman, got close to a billion, but once they saw a billion they returned to their old dumb self...

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Ranmast come on man. Be a little forgiving of WB/DC. The Warner slate of DC films was announced before Aquaman made a Billion at the box office and Shazam! was announced back in 2014 with the Rock tied in at some capacity and along with a so-called cameo by Superman so that the film would have a strong connection to the then DCEU.

WB/DC film and release schedule was planned out and the Captain Marvel movie was indeed moved from 2018 to 2019. The current 2019 release date for CM was already staked out and locked in by Marvel.

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Well that's what I mean, they had to move it as they moved BvS away from Civil War. BvS as bad as a it was as a movie did lots of money because they were smart enough to run away from CW. They should have to do the same for Shazam and run away from CM and mainly from Endgame. That's what I call lack of respect and cockiness...

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lol

talk about a horrific weekend for Queen....

Endgame tops 350 M after queen prematurely make a thread on thursday saying "300 M is out of reach and it will be interesting to see if EG can even top IWs OW)

Then CM once again over performs and officially Tops WW domestically, bringing an end to one of Queens greatest trolling failures, where He guaranteed for a month over 30 times that "CM would NOT TOP WW domestically

and Now Shazam completely collapses after Queen has been fighting for 3 weeks to spin Shazam's Low box office into "Good Legs"...

lol last week Queen shamelessly tried to Brag about an EASTER weekend completely average hold and claimed It proved That Shazam "Just Plays and PLays" suggesting it has great legs.....Now Shazam completely collapses...

I'm going to say it....Queen has had a lot of awful weekends on these boards....but this is the worst...

Queen got hit with a 3 KICK combination to The Balls,face and Throat


We can now actually say Shazam has Terrible Legs....for Shazam to be in its 4th Weekend and for CM to be in its 8th weekend and making more money and having better holds.....Thats awful...also worth noting I CALLED this 3 weeks ago....I said CM would be making more money on a daily basis than Shazam by Shazams 5th weekend

Shazam now is going to be Lucky to even see 150 M in US...

and dear lord its not even going to hit 400 Million WW...

Shazam may ONLY Break even ....

Queen's Own Break Even point for Shazam is 360 M....

Shazam looks to top out around 380 Million....Netted WB a whopping 10 Million in profit at best....

Meanwhile, Shazam comes between 2 MCU films that make 1 Billion + and over 350 M in Profit and Now Endgame Which Truly may become the highest grossing movie of all time

The Weekend has to be PURE HELL for Queen....and that truly makes me happy

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Shazam now is going to be Lucky to even see 150 M in US...

and dear lord its not even going to hit 400 Million WW...

Shazam may ONLY Break even ....

Queen's Own Break Even point for Shazam is 360 M....

Shazam looks to top out around 380 Million....Netted WB a whopping 10 Million in profit at best....

Meanwhile, Shazam comes between 2 MCU films that make 1 Billion + and over 350 M in Profit and Now Endgame Which Truly may become the highest grossing movie of all time

The Weekend has to be PURE HELL for Queen....and that truly makes me happy
Shazam! did inch over the $360 Million Q-Mark but is that what WB really wanted? 2019 is so far NOT a promising year for WB's (and their partners) box office fortunes. Something is really amiss over at WB but QueenFanUSA is very silent and won't divulge what is happening by avoiding those boards.

This board needs your help Obi-Wan-Bill-Brown. You're probably more of the Han Solo type to QueenFanUSA's Watto. Your mission, "Should you choose to accept it", is to find QueenFanUSA and get him to divulge the sources of his inferior information that leads to so many mis-truths and wrong statements.

This post will NOT ever self-destruct but can be deleted by me or a moderator.

Good Luck!

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Your mission, "Should you choose to accept it", is to find QueenFanUSA and get him to divulge the sources of his inferior information that leads to so many mis-truths and wrong statements.

^^^

Mission already accomplished...

Queen has revealed this over time...

Queen's Failures comes from 2 sources....

I first noticed Queen in 2017, when he was trolling on Justice League.

from this time Through 2018 IMO The source of his Trolling and failures were "complete Incompetence"

during this time I believe Queen was actually being somewhat serious and was actually giving what he thought were accurate box Office predictions.

during This time, he tried trolling/giving Predictions on films Like JL,Thor 3, The Last Jedi,Black Panther,Tomb Raider, Pacific Rim 2, Ready Player One, Deadpool 2 and Infinity War..

I believe during this time There is more than enough evidence to proof Queen was actually being serious of his first predictions for these films, The Problem is, He was so terrible at box offic, He Missed by 50 m+ on a consistent basis ....

He simply truly had no understanding how box office worked and it lead him to miss by disastrous amounts

and This then lead to Queen, starting down the path he's ultimately at of FAKE TROLLING.

Once Queen Missed by disastrous amounts on all these films with IMO "real Predictions"....He then decided to start trolling and never accepting or acknowledging His awful Predictions by constantly moving the goal posts...

somewhere around Infinity War....I believe Queen BROKE...

I think around that point, Queen Basically stopped being serious at all, and started Trolling "Us" instead of actual films...

I think Queen's Astonishing streak of failures where he was actually "really Trying" and failing on an almost never before seen scale, literally BROKE HIM and for the last year's he's been fake Trolling...

Queen Really cemented that with Endgame....results have never mattered to Queen, But theres truly no other conclusion than your FAKE trolling when A film Literally Breaks almost a box office record there is, and you make a thread saying "too bad it didnt meet Deadlines projection of 8 Million Higher"

at the time Queen didnt realize what he was doing, But He literally revealed himself to Be FAKE trolling...he proved at that point, There truly was NO AMOUNT a film could make, It did not matter how much a film made, It could literally shatter almost every record there is and He would still claim Its not good....

so...in conclusion...

Queen's failures comes from 2 places.

1. complete incompetence early on, where He had no clue about box office which Lead to so many failures it pushed him over the edge to FAKE TROLLING

2. His FAKE TROLLING is now so ridiculous it ONLY results in Embarrassment for him....again as I pointed out Literally FAKE TROLLING a 357 Million opening weekend....lol there is no other result, I have no clue what Queen was thinking, I have no idea how he thought it was a good idea to FAKE TROLL a 357 Million opening and try to claim that is disappointing, but for some reason he did it and it resulted in NOTHING but Embarrassment and failure for him and revealed he was FAKE TROLLING


Its also worth noting, somewhere along the line....Queen's Hatred for Disney went into pure OBSESSION....I certainly believe Disney's absolute dominance is Brutally KILLING HIM and a huge reason why He's been pushed over the edge into FAKE TROLLING...

I dont think its a coincidence the same 6 months that Disney Produces Black Panther, Infinity War and Incredibles 2 that go on to be the 3 biggest movies of the year making Disney Record Profit and easily securing Disney with The #1 studio earnings for the 5th out of 6th year that Queen completely lost touch with reality

when you hate something has much as Queen hates Disney and You then have to watch the thing you hate most in Life have unprecedented success year after year......It Breaks you....



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DCEU cant compete with Marvel , they must of thought they could , i think this proves the fact that Marvel will always eclipse the DCEU

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Good bye!

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