Audiences are sick of boring superhero movie ‘universes’
nypost.comBlue Beetle,” part of the DC Extended Universe, was squished last weekend when it made a measly $45 million at the worldwide box office.
That floperoo follows a string of embarrassing DC bombs in the past year, including “Black Adam,” “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” and “The Flash.” Losers, all.Over at Marvel, the situation isn’t as bleak, but the party is winding down. “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
3” — a film about a chain-smoking raccoon — earned a strong $845 million worldwide. Solid, but hardly the $1 billion to $2 billion business those flicks used to regularly earn.Meanwhile, the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s horrible “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” ($476 million) has been handily thumped this year by none other than Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” a somber, prestige biopic about the father of the atomic bomb that’s nearing $800 million. “Barbie” raked in $1.2 billion.Such a result was absolutely unthinkable five years ago, but viewers’ tastes are rapidly changing.
They’re hungry for something new, and another average Joe getting powers from a laboratory accident ain’t it.Have you heard anybody excitedly talking about this fall’s “The Marvels” or next year’s “Deadpool 3”?
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