Shazam! (2019)

So sad that such a good movie is being ignored like this.

I'm interested in seeing in how WB's make Mr Mind work for the sequel.

Would love to see the Monster Society of Evil.

Originally posted by Talon Fang
So sad that such a good movie is being ignored like this.

How is it being ignored. It falls in line with the type of movie it is which had a similar feeling to Spy kids.

I don't see the resemblance to spy kids. Maybe it is the lack of nauseating 3D.

Nor do I other then it having a child protagansist.

It was a fine charming movie I felt, though nothing truly special.

Not just the kids protagonists, but the feel, the effects like the smoke monsters, etc, the jokes, the dialog, all that.
And comparing them to Spy kids, Percy Jackson, and the like wasnt meant to be an insult, because some of those movies were "fun" as well.

Insult or not, I don’t really see the similarities with what you brought up. I will agree with the comparison to Percy Jackson however.

Originally posted by Inhuman
and the like wasnt meant to be an insult, because some of those movies were "fun" as well.

Even this sounds like an insult.

Give it a rest, it is one of the DCEUs best, if not The Best.

Sure it was no GOTG, which was also “fun”, but a heart warming and very enjoyable flick nonetheless.

Good film, nuff said!

Originally posted by Senor Cage
Why you say that? It's having good legs, actually.

Not really. It's pretty typical actually, it's just these big franchise movies tend to make far more.

This was a great movie. Anyone that says otherwise is hating. I can’t stand DC movies but they did a good job here.

Originally posted by celeyhyga17
It's been out for weeks. $120 domestic is horrible for a high profile movie.

No. It's been out 3 weeks, and relative to its budget, itll make a nice profit. Its not a flop, by text book definition. Also, read the Forbes article I posted. SHAZAM already broke even. Everything after that is gravy. It's basically DCEU Ant-Man.

^ Its probably broken even now, but thats not guaranteed. Either way it hardly has a few days left to make profit.

Nobody really knows what the break even point is. But, I'd take the Forbes article as the only source, so...

An updated article, if anyone is interested.

'Captain Marvel' And 'Shazam' Both Just Hit Big Box Office Milestones

First off, Shazam! earned $17.34 million in its third weekend of domestic release, bringing its 17-day cume to $121.342 million. That's a stunning 29% drop, which is lower than the 29.5% third-weekend drop for Wonder Woman back in 2017. Yes, that's partially because of Good Friday and Easter Sunday, but that's still a hell of a hold for the DC Films flick. Heck, it's the seventh-smallest third-weekend-drop for any big comic book and/or superhero movie over the last 32 years.

For reference (and I'm being generous with the "superhero" designation), it's behind Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (+15% in 2018), The Matrix (-20% in 1999), Blade (whose third weekend was Labor Day in 1998), The Crow (whose third weekend was Memorial Day in 1994), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (-28% in 1991), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (-25% in 1990) and Robocop (-26% in 1987). That may not mean anything in the long run, but it took me too long to look that up (even Batman dipped 36% in weekend three and Wonder Woman dipped 29.5% in weekend three) for me not to share it.

Anyway, with $121 million in 17 days, the film is now positioned to soar past the $150 million mark in North America, which is a perfectly strong figure for a $90 million comic book flick. If Rampage was able to earn 30% of its domestic total ($30 million out of $101 million) after Avengers: Infinity War opened, then Shazam! should be able to survive the second "Avengers v. Thanos" smackdown. If anything, WB's own Detective Pikachu is probably a bigger threat to Shazam! than Avengers: Endgame. While a $400 million-plus finish will be a close call (mostly thanks to relative disinterest in China), it still crossed $300 million worldwide this weekend for a $322 million cume.

Barring flukes in either direction, it should end up with around $395 million global, about on par with (the far more expensive) Alita: Battle Angel ($405 million), Mad Max: Fury Road ($370 million), Edge of Tomorrow ($371 million). Is that a super-huge number? No, but it's about on par with Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ($375 million on a $90 million budget) and The Nun ($366 million global on a $22 million budget). There's a reason WB and New Line didn't spend Aquaman money on a Shazam movie. When you spend less money, you can celebrate a smaller overall global gross. Maybe the sequel will breakout due to the quality/goodwill from this one. But as long as the budget is kept in check, it doesn't have to.

So, yeah, SHAZAM will have a nice profit, which bodes well for a sequel.

It will have A profit. But nothing to justify a larger scale sequel. They may have to bring in The Rock earlier than planned.

Really hope this continues to have the legs to carry it to $400mill WW.

Originally posted by Darth Thor
It will have A profit. But nothing to justify a larger scale sequel. They may have to bring in The Rock earlier than planned.

Really hope this continues to have the legs to carry it to $400mill WW.

Maybe, but you don't really know that. I'd guarantee that BA will have a higher budget. The Rock will justify that.

^ I know that $300mill to break even would be an optimistic estimate.

It needs $400mill for them to consider risking a higher budget sequel. Either that, or just go straight in with Black Adam for the sequel. And screw his solo movie, which has been and continues to be in Development Hell.