2014 Movie News Archives

April 29, 2014: Why Superman/Batman and Justice League Will Succeed

Superman/Batman Movie Mark Hughes at Forbes.com weighs in once more with an excellent article on why the cynics are wrong about Warner Bros.' plans for Superman/Batman and Justice League, detailing why he thinks they'll be massively successful. Here's an excerpt from the article...

    Putting Batman alongside Superman, adding in Wonder Woman, and releasing in IMAX 3D is going to make these films massive hits, as long as they cross the basic threshold of not being really bad movies that get trashed by critics and early audience buzz. Batman's box office clout is a given, superhero films are consistently performing stronger at the worldwide box office, and teaming up major superhero characters in films has proven lucrative.

    There's just no rational reason to expect a Superman-Wonder Woman-Batman movie to do less than $1 billion, and probably much higher. Especially since the marketing will drive home the point this is the lead-in to an even bigger superhero team-up in Justice League. I've been saying that if they market it as "Justice League Begins," they'll reap the financial rewards, and it's clear now that this is precisely what's going to happen.

Read the complete report at Forbes.com.



2014 Movie News

Listed below are all the Movie News items archived for 2014 organized into various categories:

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“Justice League” Movie News: “Man of Steel” Movie News: “Justice League: War” Animated Movie News: “Justice League: Throne of Atlantis” Animated Movie News: LEGO Animated Movie News: Christopher Reeve Movie News: Other Movie News:

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