Black Panther

[LateNights]

In 2008, WB, with ownership of the entire DC universe, released the Dark Knight, one of the greatest comic book movies of all time - in the same year Marvel released Iron Man as an attempt to start a cinematic universe in spite of not owning the rights to the Fantastic Four, Spider-man or the X-Men.

10 years later, a Black Panther movie made more in its second weekend than a Justice League movie did in its first.

Does the dictionary even have a word for this level of incompetence and self-humiliation?

Inept.

[eabrace]

Merriam-Webster just added "dumpster fire" to the dictionary, so...

[Ohioknight]

It's too bad they killed Klaw, though.

Without even turning him into LIVING SOUND!

[CG]

Without even turning him into LIVING SOUND!

He's probably uploaded on Soundcloud.

[doc7924]

Yikes. Black Panther now grossed over 1 Billion worldwide.

Take that DC.

[Arcana]

Yikes. Black Panther now grossed over 1 Billion worldwide.

Take that DC.

Patience is a virtue.  Black Panther just surpassed the gold standard, Marvel's Avengers movie, as the top domestic grossing superhero genre movie.  Carefully curating your property beats swinging for the fences with every try.

It is also slowly closing in on Jurassic World and Titanic for the top three highest domestic grossing movie of all time (not adjusted for inflation).

[doc7924]

Patience is a virtue.  Black Panther just surpassed the gold standard, Marvel's Avengers movie, as the top domestic grossing superhero genre movie.  Carefully curating your property beats swinging for the fences with every try.

It is also slowly closing in on Jurassic World and Titanic for the top three highest domestic grossing movie of all time (not adjusted for inflation).

Like I said - take that DC.

They came to the party too late. Marvel, as you say, had the patience to let it all play out and build up their movie franchise.

DC had decent Batman and Superman films in 1978 and 1989. They should have though about it way back then, to start building up a film universe, but they didn't.
The Flash TV show was on in 1990. There was a Superboy show. The timing would have been good.

No surprise though that Infinity War will probably beat this film hands down.

[Golden Girl]

They came to the party too late.

Actually, they only thought that they had - they started playing a game of catch up that only existed in their heads, and rushed everything in a race that no one else was running.

[saipaman]

Actually, they only thought that they had - they started playing a game of catch up that only existed in their heads, and rushed everything in a race that no one else was running.

I think DC was driven on by the idea that audiences would soon lose interest in super-hero films.   Based on that, rushing out movies would seem like a good idea.  In cliche, "strike while the iron is hot".

[doc7924]

I think DC was driven on by the idea that audiences would soon lose interest in super-hero films.   Based on that, rushing out movies would seem like a good idea.  In cliche, "strike while the iron is hot".

Honesty - Marvel setting up their film universe could have crashed and burned had 'Iron Man' not been the big hit that it was.
And after a few good ones under their belt, even a couple mediocre ones couldn't derail the train.

And on the flip side - look at the McGuire Spider-Man films. The first two were really good and did great and then fizzled out with the third.

The first Garfield film was good for a retread but the 2nd was just awful.

Glad they didn't waste yet another film doing his origin for the latest ones and just got on with it.