Yea, it's more or less fake news. Even WBD CEO claims that none of the stuff (or even the company itself) are for sale, at least for now. Even then, a lot people are full of shit. I remember there were rumors that NBCUniversal (as owned by Comcast) are buying WBD, but again, that's rumor shit
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Before Aquaman 2 comes out there's another potential flop in the Blue Beetle as well. Won't be as big a flop as The Flash or Aquaman 2 might since it has a lower budget (still 120mil for some reason tho) but early tracking suggests it's gonna be another catastrophe at the box office. Not suprising between randomly shitting on Batman in the trailer, to going hard on the latino shit, but then having all the marketing faggots talk about "latinx" which most actual latinos seem to fucking despise.
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Have Zack Snyder do a movie adaptation of Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?
Just Moore's seething would be worth it.
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Blue Beetle isn't brought up as much in film discussions because near nobody has heard of the character, apart from the trailer very little has been promoted about the film (with WBD busy trying to save The Flash instead, and hyping up Aquaman 2), and that same trailer put off almost all comic book fans. If they are trying to increase diversity by having Latino characters, they are definitely fucking it up by placing them in what looks like is going to be a straight-to-DVD quality film.
There's actually been talk that several studios are planning to push back release dates of films into 2024 because they don't believe the big Hollywood strike will be resolved before fall ends, starving the first half of 2024 of new films and TV shows. Blue Beetle seems like an ample candidate to be flung into 2024 to fill that potential gap.
(Interestingly, one of the main points that led to the actors striking was the use of their appearances on future deepfaked and AI-generated characters. The same principle that The Flash used to feature all those dead actors via horrible CGI.)
Which, by the way, is not only the first since the COVID-19 pandemic, but also the first since 1988 during that writers strike and 1980 when a similar actors strike had happened.
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Blue Beetle was featured in some DC animated shit. I last remember the character in season 2 of Young Justice. I didn't like the character much back then and I have zero interest now. I don't care about another Spider-Man story that's so painfully paint by numbers: a kid down on his luck, accidentally gets their powers, training montage, great power comes great responsibility bullshit, then the bullshit where our main character has to choose between the secret identity (it's ALWAYS the secret identity nonsense) and their family or love interest "OMG! The big bad is about to blow up the world but the prom is happening tonight!" No one cares. Fuck off. Tell other stories. Move the fuck on from the fucking stupid secret identity dilemma.
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Don't forget the fight against his dark mirror image.
Or in this case, crimson.
Or in this case, crimson.
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These idiots have way too much money & don't know wtf they are doing.
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A prediction of the Box Office totals of Blue Beetle has come out:
https://www.boxofficepro.com/long-range-box-office-forecast-blue-beetle-and-strays/
Assuming the higher value of $55 million total is reached, here is what I worked out:
- Assuming similar performance to The Flash (61% of total), the International ticket sales will be $86.03m, for a total of $141.03m.
- The studio gets half of that as profit, so a total income of $70.51m.
- The Budget for the film was $120m officially (before reshoots and edits) and marketing is likely $100m as theres TV ads and tie-ins.
- So when you subtract $70.51m income against $220m costs, Warner Bros Discovery are on track to lose $149.49 MILLION DOLLARS.
- Because the film cost $120m to make, it would be less of a financial loss ($29.49m) if they simply cancelled the film entirely after it was finished rather than pay marketing/distribution costs.
If you wonder how much of a loss WBD will make, its enough (assuming $12 a day for food) to feed 1,245,726 homeless people for a day. DC's characters would probably do more good for humanity if they stopped making shitty movies and donate food to those who need it (I know thats not how it works in reality, i'm just giving an example of how wasteful WBD are).
https://www.boxofficepro.com/long-range-box-office-forecast-blue-beetle-and-strays/
Assuming the higher value of $55 million total is reached, here is what I worked out:
- Assuming similar performance to The Flash (61% of total), the International ticket sales will be $86.03m, for a total of $141.03m.
- The studio gets half of that as profit, so a total income of $70.51m.
- The Budget for the film was $120m officially (before reshoots and edits) and marketing is likely $100m as theres TV ads and tie-ins.
- So when you subtract $70.51m income against $220m costs, Warner Bros Discovery are on track to lose $149.49 MILLION DOLLARS.
- Because the film cost $120m to make, it would be less of a financial loss ($29.49m) if they simply cancelled the film entirely after it was finished rather than pay marketing/distribution costs.
If you wonder how much of a loss WBD will make, its enough (assuming $12 a day for food) to feed 1,245,726 homeless people for a day. DC's characters would probably do more good for humanity if they stopped making shitty movies and donate food to those who need it (I know thats not how it works in reality, i'm just giving an example of how wasteful WBD are).
And with a budget of $120 million, they're gonna lose a lot, and this is saying something because they're always making shitty decisions. Plus, WBD made the decision to release it during a time summer comes to a close and kids are going back to school.
At this point they've already begun their marketing spend with commitments that would need to be cancelled and still result in losses since any physical product needed will already have been produced, not to mention scheduling with other promotions.
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I've already seen Blue Beetle toys and POP figurines show up in stores. Likely to appear in your local dollar store and/or landfill in 6 months time.
And even in thrift stores like Goodwill for dirt cheap.
Oh certainly. But it goes way beyond even that crap. Gotta figure in any fast food tie-in garbage, the cardboard standees for the movie theaters, the posters even. That shit(including the consoomer crap like funkos and whatever) all needs to be produced in advance to be ready to go on day 1. Even if they shipped it all straight to the landfill it's agreements with other businesses for promotional space, ad time, etc. that can't simply be cancelled without incurring a massive loss. If you got paid to put blue beetle posters in the window, that's space you could have sold to someone else for the 2 weeks or whatever so even cancelling that means you'd be at a potential loss and would want compensation for it.
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For anyone interested, this is why a film usually costs $50-100 million to market and distribute. They need to produce endless amounts of throwaway junk and advertising to pique the public's curiosity enough to pay $10 to watch the film, in every single country they release the film in. Its a drastically huge process that keeps marketing firms in business and film studio accountants reaching for the jack daniels.
Plus, a typical needed to make more than the whole budget (including marketing and distribution). Sure, films can do well overseas than in America, but at what cost? It's still a failure because it couldn't break marketing and distribution money.
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If I was the Swedish Climate Goblin I would launch a vitriolic crusade against the entertainment industry at once. It's not escapism anymore, shooting on multiple fucking continents became the norm and it produces tons of plastic crap every year. Kids can't even play with Funko POPs FFS. Can these fugly things even bend their arms? I've had more fun catching frogs in the smelly ditch next to my childhood home.
Bend their arms? Shit, we're long past the point of people wanting them even out of the package for that to even matter. They're just this generations equivalent of beanie babies, except probably somehow worse in every way. Even just a few months ago the company sent tons of inventory to the landfill because consoomers didn't do their job and buy enough.
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Action Figures and Dolls are no longer targeted at kids. Toy companies sell them at ridiculous prices in limited numbers to obsessed adults instead, and kids have to make do with Fortnite and Roblox for 'fun'.
Funko Pops are this generation's Beanie Babies, and they are worse in almost every way. Slight PL, but I might point out at the last few conventions i've attended, next to nobody has been buying anything from the multiple stalls selling Pop figurines.