Not all of their movies are failures either. They got lucky with nolan, but that doesnt mean they cant duplicate another success. The script has been in the works for awhile, even before the avengers was launched.
I honestly don't think there's any point in doing a Solo movie for everyone first at this point. I mean is one of those movies going to be GL? What if the Flash or WW flop that bad?? People won't like a Batman reboot at this point.
And it would just seem like a second class copy of the Avengers formula. It certainly wouldn't have that feel of something Original like Avengers pulled off.
They just need to build hype for it somehow (on top of having a good Director, Cast and Plot), and TV could be a good medium to get people excited for some of these characters. Whilst in the process they could at least dominate the small screen medium for superheroes.
Last edited by Darth Thor on Dec 2nd, 2012 at 02:27 PM
Yep. Supposedly the movie focuses on the trinity. Batman supes and ww. Well they just had a huge batan trilogy, man of steel comes out next year and ww will have her own tv show. It doeant make sense to have solo moviea now. Not to mentiin that they want to keep a good distance from the gl movie that came out not too long ago.
The batman reboot will come out in 2016, so the movie will set the tone for the solo movies.
green lantern and superman returns are two of the biggest offenders. and now their deal with nickelodeon or whatever kids channel it is, is in trouble.
in the works for that long usually means they haven't been able to nail down or decide, probably because twenty executives are all trying to get their way. being in the works that long is a bad thing.
Superman Returns wasn't a complete failure, because it made it's money back.
What deal with Nickelodeon are you talking about?
This is why they are hoping MOS will lead the way to a JL movie, which sets the tone for future solo movies. Robinov has a plan, he just needs to stick with it.
Yea, Superman Returns grossed more than Captain America and Thor adjusted for inflation, though it did have a higher budget. Heck I think it even grossed more than X-Men: First Class, Ghost Rider: SOV, Wolverine and The Inredible Hulk so I don't get why people say it's a failure.
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A lot of movies don't do as good as the executives hope, but at least it made it's money back and thus not a total failure. I'm not being optimistic yet, either, I'm more interested than anything, because WB has put a tight lid on things.
Once I know the cast, look/feel of the movie, and director, than I'll start to judge things and even then, it can still turn out good. There were tons of negatives when people first saw Heath and Hathaway as Catwoman, but it turned out well.
Some of those like X-Men First Class didn't do as expected in box office either, but it was still awesome. I actually prefer X-Men First Class to Avengers. It was much more memorable.
Ghost Rider and Punisher were also failures, along with the last Blade movies.
I don't think Superman Returns did make it's money back. I've heard movies have to make considerably more than their production cost to break even because the Cinema's take their share of the ticket price.
And SR's production cost was around $250mill and it did not even make $400mill.
But the real reason SR was a complete failure is because whatever money it made was just from having the name Superman. I mean jeez can you imagine if The Amazing Spiderman made less than $400mill!
Whilst something like Thor did incredibly well because besides tripling it's budget cost it had to fight the fact that not many people knew who Thor even was!
For the first Superman movie in decades not to make much money is abysmal. Can you imagine if the new Spiderman movie made only $400mill worldwide?? That would have been a disaster! And that was a reboot after only 5 years!
And btw Iron Man even in "gross earnings" did a heck of a lot better than SR. And Iron Man was pretty much an unknown so had very little hype/excitement to it.
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Some of those like X-Men First Class didn't do as expected in box office either, but it was still awesome. I actually prefer X-Men First Class to Avengers. It was much more memorable. 
