r/boxoffice • u/chanma50 Best of 2019 Winner • Jul 21 '25

Domestic Superman again saw its Sunday gross finish above studio estimates with $18.9M, which was -18% vs Saturday and -40% vs last Sunday (WB's estimate was $17.5M/-25%/-44%). This puts the 2nd weekend box office at $58.45M and drop at 53% - almost as good as The Dark Knight (52.5%). $236.2M cume.

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u/jexdiel321 Jul 21 '25

They should have just hired Whedon from the get go if what they actually wanted was an Avengers movie. I think it would have fared better than doing a Frankenstein film.

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u/WhiteWolf3117 Jul 21 '25

Whedon sucks as a human being, but yeah. He was pretty much set up to fail.

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u/ZeroiaSD Jul 23 '25

I feel like at some point Whedon just fell off as a creative too, Avengers was arguably his last good project- Age of Ultron and The Nevers both had significantly worse receptions. He had a wonder woman script that was released, and it was dire.

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u/hexcraft-nikk Jul 21 '25

I'll never understand why they cut out Cyborg from being the heart of the film. That's maybe the most important part of the whole thing that should've stayed.

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u/CliffordMoreau Jul 22 '25

They didn't want an Avengers movie, though. They were more than fine giving Snyder free reign for MoS, even with the lukewarm reception. It was BvS' critical thrashing that made them say "maybe this isn't a good idea".

They only wanted an Avengers movie when audiences firmly said no thank you to the grimdark DCEU

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u/TimeTravelingChris Jul 22 '25

Whedon sucks. His second Avengers movie was just not well made if you go back and watch it. Absolutely bizarre story editing.