Considering that it's being released four weeks after "Captain Marvel" and three weeks before "Endgame", I'm not seeing it being a raving hit. But I read somewhere that it cost $75-85 million to make, very lightweight by today's standards for a superhero movie. So if it makes $200 million total, it will still be considered a success. I think that, given the WB's choice to release it against such insane competition, that's all they are demanding is that it makes a profit. Hopefully, it will and there will be more Capt- ahem, Shazam movies.
Power with Girl is better.
The budget for shazam is low. So it doesn't need to do huge herculean numbers to do well. The main point is to go from lighthearted to serious,but not BvS serious. He cannot be joking and acting like an awestruck idiot the whole time.
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I keep imagining a fight where they keep punching each other to space(only for the knocked up opponent to return at super speed) without a result.
I think Shazam (the film) is a good move by DC films.
It's effectively their shot at the Deadpool angle; low budget, slightly more comedic/deconstructionist take on the genre, charismatic lead with quotable lines and so on.
I don't know if it'll be as wildly successful as Deadpool was but I think it will do solid work and, fortunately, due to the lower budget it doesn't have to set the world on fire to be successful.
The reason they gave for changing it to Shazam in 2012, was:
"Well, there are a lot of reasons for the change. One is that everybody thinks he's called Shazam already, outside of comics. It's also, for all sorts of reasons, calling him Shazam just made sense for us. And, you know, every comic book he's in right now has Shazam on the cover. So I think just by embracing that and calling him Shazam."
Yeah, but if you... man, we're getting into weird analogy territory, like if you disintegrated Superman's arms he wouldn't be able to go "fool! Little did you know that my arms and I are one and can be remade from me!" and will his arms back into being from pure nothingness. - Pendaran
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Which is frankly all bollocks.
In summary, what they’re saying is “Umm... some people who are just guessing might possibly think he’s also called Shazam but not really anybody who actually knows the character at all and there’s... err... some reasons, and... ah... we’ve gradually moved towards this for a while by putting Shazam on the covers, so we’ve self-justified this whole thing, and we’re not at all going to mention that the name is just like our big rivals who’ve also had about a bazillion (5?) characters called Captain Marvel.”
Is Mary now called Mary Shazam? Is Freddy now Shazam Jr.? How does that stuff even work?
Yeah, but if you... man, we're getting into weird analogy territory, like if you disintegrated Superman's arms he wouldn't be able to go "fool! Little did you know that my arms and I are one and can be remade from me!" and will his arms back into being from pure nothingness. - Pendaran
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