Tag: Flash
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Is DC’s Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom a superhero movie out of time?
On the surface the forthcoming sequel looks capable of knocking everyone’s head off, but rumours of reshoots and walkouts suggest otherwiseIf Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom were a song, it might be Nickelback’s How You Remind Me. The Canadian rock band delivered an ersatz, MTV-friendly grunge-style anthem the best part of a decade after the…
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How ‘The Boys’ and ‘Gen V’ Avoid Superhero Fatigue
If there’s one thing that 2023 taught us is that the superhero fatigue is real. With Marvel Studios’ movies and series being met with apathy by the public and DC superheroes like The Flash and Blue Beetle delivering lackluster box office numbers, it’s time that studios go back to the drawing board and come up…
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DC Originally Planned to Reboot Franchise With a ‘Flashpoint’ Movie
Earlier this summer, The Flash finally raced into theaters, which DC Studios co-ceo James Gunn teased would “reset” the DC Universe. The film took inspiration from the 2011 comic book storyline Flashpoint, where Barry Allen changed reality by going back in time to save his mother. Although the DC Extended Universe has significantly changed since…
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‘The Flash’ Finally Passes Domestic Box Office Milestone
At this point, Warner Bros. will take every minor win that it can get with The Flash, which has now firmly cemented its reputation as one of the biggest box office bombs in years. This week, after 19 days of release, the superhero film passed a box office milestone that most other movies its size…
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny struggles at global box office
Analysts decry ‘disastrous result’ as Harrison Ford’s Hollywood blockbuster takes $130m on opening weekendIndiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny has proved a disappointment at the US and international box office on its first week of release, a second successive setback for a supposed Hollywood tentpole movie after The Flash failed to set audiences alight…
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‘The Flash’ Global Box Office Continues to Disappoint
The Flash’s box office run isn’t as great as Warner Bros Discovery would have liked. In its third week, the movie garnered an estimated $11.4m across 13,548 screens domestically and overseas markets. This brings the international running cume to $146.1m and the global tally adds up to $245.3m through Sunday. The Flash only managed to…
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‘The Flash’ Would’ve Been Less Expensive to Cancel, According to New Report
Warner Bros. and DC Studios have clearly not gotten what they wanted out of The Flash. The film has undoubtedly been a box office bomb, and analysts have reported that The Flash could lose Warner Bros. up to $200 million. On top of this, a new report claims that the studio would’ve actually lost less…
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‘No Hard Feelings’ Tops Friday Box Office as ‘The Flash’ Grinds to a Halt
What should have theoretically been the second weekend in a row to be dominated by The Flash has taken a completely different shape. Now that it is clear that the DC superhero film has bombed, a smattering of releases — both old and new — occupied spots in the top five list at this weekend’s…
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The Flash’s box office struggles are a mess of DC’s own making
The cash has been counted: The Flash is officially a flop. So is its star Ezra Miller to blame? Or have we all just had enough of major studios’ middling, comic-book cash-ins?It was billed (admittedly by the studio itself) as “probably one of the greatest superhero movies ever made”, the film to reset the multiverse…
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General Zod’s Comics Clash With The Flash Was Far More Brutal Than the Movie
Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for The Flash“Kneel before Zod, Barry Allen!” We may not have heard this line in The Flash, yet we certainly could have with Michael Shannon’s Zod returning to the Dcu as the film’s primary antagonist. Zod’s inclusion in the film is a little out of left field, to say…