>Due to the unflattering early word of mouth, box office projections were pretty low heading into Dark Phoenix's opening weekend. In spite of that, the film still bombed harder than expected, setting an all-time low for Fox's X-Men franchise in the process. Shortly after, it was predicted the movie would ultimately cost Fox somewhere in the vicinity of $100-120 million. Unfortunately, the final loss was even worse.
>Per Deadline, Dark Phoenix posted a total loss of $133 million after topping out at $252 million at the global box office (another all-time low for the X-Men movies). Overall, it lost more money than any other film released last year, including notorious commercial bombs like Terminator: Dark Fate (which lost $122.6 million), Cats ($113.6 million), and Gemini Man ($111.1 million).
>Combined with the reviews, Dark Phoenix's box office loss can be attributed to a perfect storm of factors. For starters, its budget rose to $200 million after substantial reshoots (which included re-filming its entire climax) and the movie was subsequently delayed from November 2018 to the following February. It was thereafter delayed again (against its producers' wishes) to June to accommodate Fox's Alita: Battle Angel, which only further damaged its efforts at building hype and increased the negative buzz surrounding the project. Of course, all of this was happening while Disney was in the process of finalizing its purchase of Fox.
>Due to the unflattering early word of mouth i.e. because the movie was terrible
I like how they're attempting to paint this as "a good movie wrongfully maligned (probably by incels)".
Kayden Thompson
I thought it wasnt THAT bad, like a 6/10 movie
Jace Diaz
i miss times when capeshit was niche making crappy money so it wasnt shoved everywhere blade, daredevil, catwoman, ghostrider and so on... they were made but nobody gave a shit
Ethan Barnes
This film was pretty based. I felt fairly chad watching this over whatever the marvel shit at the time was.
Even a bad xmen movie still has more soul than anything by disney.
Christopher Reed
Sophie Turner was the most bland character from X-Men Apocalypse and then they decide to make a movie out of her and drop "X-Men" from the title.
Jace Wilson
Because the chick who played Jean Grey is a disgusting talentless roastie. They should have found a way to work Famke Janssen into it.
Camden Barnes
people are finally tired of capeshit? jesus it only took what, 20 years?
Caleb Gonzalez
X-Men is full of awesome characters and they decided to do a Dark Phoenix reboot. I think that may have also had something to do with it.
Jace Foster
The only X-Men movie I’ve seen was First Class, and that’s because I was hanging out with friends who wanted to see it. I doubt I’m going to sit and binge all X-men movies, so how exactly am I expected to be persuaded by marketing for this movie which, to my understanding, is sequel number 10 for a franchise I don’t care about?
Grayson Garcia
>X-Men: Apocalypse >Magneto literally wrecks the world >mutants are obviously going to be blamed for everything >Apocalypse is beaten by the release of the phoenix
And somehow in Dark Phoenix, mutants are loved by everybody, the US government is pretty cool with Magneto, and Jean obtains the Phoenix for the first time.
Camden Reed
Yup. It didn't help that everyone disliked Apocalypse. Killed all interest in any sequel, let along one about phoenix.
Parker Perez
Watch Days of the Future past, it's actually pretty good
Gavin James
>There were other problems which impacted Dark Phoenix in a creative sense - namely, it was originally written as two movies before Fox decided to condense it into a single film - and, as has been pointed out before, there arguably wasn't a whole lot of fan interest in another take on the Dark Phoenix Saga following The Last Stand. Finally, for many filmgoers, 2017's Logan felt like the true conclusion to Fox's mainline X-Men movies, so there was never all that much excitement for Dark Phoenix from the get-go. Add it all together and the result is the biggest box office bomb of 2019. It's little wonder Disney and Marvel Studios are planning to reboot the characters for the MCU after that.
Thomas Evans
>raimi spiderman era >superheroes were niche
Blake Johnson
Is it worth it if I don’t remember literally anything from First a Class, other than that blond bitch who tricked some guy that she was fucking him with her mind tricks? I think that’s what happened, but it’s been so long.
Lucas Taylor
Days Of Future past would have capped off these movies nicely if they had ended there. Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix were shit.
Logan was good though.
Hunter Anderson
No, it matters more if you remember the OG X-Men trilogy.
Luke Flores
because apart from big ones, they were indeed a fucking niche for nerds
now you see "garbage-shitman radom name with avengers" about literally who making 600M just because of mcu logo
Ryan Baker
>, it matters more if you remember the OG X-Men trilogy. Never seen it. Actually, I did also watch Logan on a first date once but I don’t know if I’d consider it X-men.
First 2 X-Men movies were top kino, 3rd one was meh but better than anything Marvel spits out these days.
Caleb Hill
maybe now we can finally realize that GoT actors are box office cancer and should be forgotten
Ian Cooper
Guess I’ll have to check it out. Any essential solo hero movies from that franchise?
Lincoln Morris
they aren't though
Ethan Robinson
They should have ended with Days of Future Past then rebooted the franchise to be accurate to the comics.
Colton Brown
Just let it die.
Gabriel Reed
Disney know that the X Men in the MCU is easy cash
Its never dying
Ethan Lewis
>even cats beat it wow
Dylan Cooper
hey at least it wasn't as bad as Cuck
Jordan Walker
Was actually kino and better than Apocalypse.
Soundtrack is amazing also
Noah Hall
She looks like a bloak and behaves like a slag. Who the fuck ever thought it's a good idea to make her a lead role actress...
Christopher Evans
I have a theory they intentionally fucked this movie up because it used ideas they wanted to use fresh in Marvel's rebranded X-Men. Is this retarded? If you think about all the reshoots they did and stuff they took out they pretty much fucked this movie on purpose
Noah Lopez
mutants don't make sense in the marvel universe.
how can the public hate mutants and celebrate people like fantastic four or avengers or other heroes? it's dumb.
