According to this
, The Flash has suffered an 81% drop from its opening day. Not a good day for Warner Bros.
The Scrappy of the Trope Pantheon, God of Thumps
So I read that 150 mil was used to advertise the movie, which makes it such a money sink that releasing it on Max or Zaslav’s signature tax write off powers would have costed less money.
Okay, maybe some embezzling was done considering 150 mil is suspiciously high for barebones marketing.
Pantheon server for all who click here. Lost too much money and time, this coaster ain’t stopping.Fandango is holding a buy-one-get-one-free sale with The Flash.
This doesn’t happen. This never happens.
Edited by SatoshiBakura on Jun 25th 2023 at 10:42:04 AM
Oh I heard from Luiz Fernando (Gamespot's box office analyst).
Painful, but needs to be mentioned if The Flash ends up within the projection,since studio just keeps half share from Box Office global grosses, it won’t even pay its total 150M marketing campaign. WB would have lost less money releasing it on Max or not releasing it at all.
They were better off never realising it at all.
Also the drop is 73 percent for the flash
with spider verse overtaking it.
The Scrappy of the Trope Pantheon, God of Thumps
I wonder what the heck is going on with the film part of the marketing industry because not just the Flash, so many movies end up look unappealing because of bad marketing or just having one decent trailer being made and everything revolving around it. Yet somehow those budgets increase to almost more than the movie itself.
Edited by M1gamiTensei on Jun 26th 2023 at 1:59:40 AM
Pantheon server for all who click here. Lost too much money and time, this coaster ain’t stopping.
The Scrappy of the Trope Pantheon, God of Thumps
WBD must be praying Dune and Joker 2 to save them
Pantheon server for all who click here. Lost too much money and time, this coaster ain’t stopping.Uh joker 2 will probably do well. It's not connected to the dceu which is poison.
At this point I wonder if D.C. should scrape the whole shared universe thing and do standalone films for a few years. Than after things are stable. They can start crossing them over.
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."I've no idea. That's why I asked about their successes. Still IIRC from the Merger thread
they saddled themselves with a ton of debt during the merger and having been trying to cut costs to handle it for ages, which is not a sign of doing well and recently are trying to sell of their entire music department.
There's also the rumours based on their schedule that they literally did not have enough money to release more than a couple of films last year and those films didn't make money so... that's at least not a good sign.
I don't know if their other properties and revenues are making up the difference.
x7 I don't know, the fact that the main star of the film (in two roles no less) got into countless legal controversies before the release of the film must have restricted the possibilities of the marketing. Furthermore, I don't think the marketing was particularly bad, all of the questionable CGI in the trailers and the such wouldn't be improved or remade just for commercials. Trailers in the past were actually worse, they often just explained the entire story of the film.
Edited by good-morning on Jun 26th 2023 at 5:05:52 AM
oh hey how are you doing?The Flash had so much going against it from the word 'go' from the epically long production of the film, which was due to changing studio heads, selling the studio, changing directions at least 4-5 teams of writers and directors this inflated the budget massively meaning that before Miller's breakdown and crimes it needed to be a SMASH to make its money back.
Miller's crimes was the first mortal wound, the news of a complete reboot was the mercy kill.
In terms of films that have significantly featured the multiverse in their plot, I'd say Multiverse of Madness, Spider-Verse, No Way Home, and Flash are the only ones.
- CW's Flash actually has the distinction of being the first to do an Earth-1 and Earth-2.
- Avengers had Dr. Strange travel the multiverse through America Chavez, but it was all of 2-3 universes and it wasn't deeply explored.
- Spider-Man No Way Home had alternate Spidermen.
- Let There Be Carnage hinted at a multiverse.
- Across The Spider Verse brought in multiple Spiderverses.
Flash is the first DC film to really tackle the multiverse.

WB might put out more theater screenings to spite Sony.
Just Makima.