Well, technically Bumblebee hasn't flopped, it cost $135million to make, its at $311million so by the double the production budget rule, its into profit, but you're right, Bumblebee turned out to be no competition whatsoever, it wasn't even in the running, losing on some days to Spider-Man: Into the Spider verse in its first week.
Whilst I liked Aquaman, I didn't peg it for a billion dollar movie and I don't think many others did, so congrats to DC for finally ditching Snyders miserable-verse movies, aka DCEU.
Wonder Woman and Aquaman have both adequately proved that Snyders vision was wrong.
Still a shame for Bumblebee though, i'm not sure if it were the crowded release schedule or that people are genuinely bored of Transformers now or expected Bumblebee to be more of the same, but for it to not even be competition for Aquaman shows how far the franchise has fallen.
Either Paramount use Bumblebee as a springboard where people discover it on Bluray and home rentals and realise its not anything like Michael Bays output and they chance doing another movie in the hope that it will do better, or they retire the franchise for 5 years and start again.
This might play out like Batman Begins. Have a first movie in the series kind of do OK business, and then the chance to really grow with the sequels, BB had the hard act of following Batman & Robin.
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