Flash makes embarrassing preview night

[polynucleotide]

Ezra Miller's "The Flash" launched to $9.7 million in Thursday box office previews. By comparison, “Black Adam” collected $7.6 million, “Aquaman” had $9 million and “Shazam: Fury of the Gods” made $3.4 million. https://t.co/CEpfQc0BoF
- Variety (@Variety) June 16, 2023
It was pounded into our heads that David Zaslav, James Gunn and even Tom Cruise

Comments

[sestiere]

The fact that this movie being a box office flop will probably hurt Ezra’s career more than… idk the dozen crimes they’ve committed. what a world.

[polynucleotide]

but consider this: if ezra didnt commit all those crimes, there wouldnt be so much drama surrounding the film and its box office total would be higher. warners played themselves like we knew they would.

[just444]

a recommend score of 60% is horrendous

euro numbers also look pretty bad

Gunn giving Muschietti the next Batman to direct looks kinda questionable now, dude really struggles with VXF

turns out women don't show up for a violent abuser. shocker.

[just444]

superhero movies always lean male, but the flash has a 76/24 m/f audience split

[ponyboy]

thank god for matt reeves.

[trekkiepetrelli]

[josiefier]

So much for the GP not caring or wanting to see this as much as WB did. Suffer!

[skeetertuskin]

idgi, how is this bad when it took more than aquaman's preview and that movie was a huge success?

[just444]

aquaman was HUGE overseas, the early numbers for this one don't look good anywhere rn

[sandstorm]

I see your point, but That was certainly a different time and different circumstances. Even if most dceu movies never hit 1b status, after almost 10 years they probably expect a bit more.

I think this will be like Fast X and TLM - in the weird realm of not a flop but not a runaway success.

[pyroyale]

Aquaman had a slow start and blew up, especially overseas. This one has been promoted to hell and back everywhere and really needed to be strong out of the gate. Plus, comic book movies tend to drop off in the second week much more than they did in the time Aquaman came out.