Premiering on August 18, Blue Beetle – part of the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) is considered a superhero movie, even the best movie of DC Studios (part of Warner Bros).
Blue Beetle revolves around the character Jaime Reyes (Xolo Maridueña) from a 22-year-old Mexican-American young man who becomes the superhero Blue Beetle after being parasitized by an alien creature named Scarab, which resembles a green beetle.
The film received high ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, with a score of 77% from critics and a score of 92 from the audience.
However, the film only earned $45 million at the global box office in its first week of release.
Highly anticipated by DC, but revenue suffered
According to The New York Post, Blue Beetle continues DC’s embarrassing series of `blockbusters` in the past year, Black Adam, Shazam!
At Marvel, things aren’t so bleak, but the party is slowly coming to an end.
Meanwhile, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantum World) reached a revenue of 476 million USD, easily beaten this year by Oppenheimer (nearly 800 million USD) and Barbie
If 5 years ago, this result would have been completely unimaginable.
People are not excited to discuss the next two superhero projects, The Marvels and Deadpool 3, released next year.
caused a global sensation at the time of its release.
Starting at the dawn of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) in 2008 with Iron Man, the entertainment industry was destroyed by Napoleonic – just interconnected movie and TV series franchises like
The worst offenders are Disney’s MCU (32 movies, 21 TV shows), Warner Bros. DCEU (15 movies, one TV show), The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (11 movies, one TV show
No one denies that the movies and TV shows of these `giants` are really good.
However, no one wants to pay and sit through a series of 30 long movies anymore.
The overlap and connection of movies in the MCU frustrates viewers.
Now, audiences are trying to prevent more movie universes from proliferating before it’s too late.
Typically Mattel.
The box office downturn for franchises coupled with the skyrocketing number of hits like Super Mario Bros. and Avatar: The Way of Water is reason to be optimistic that movie universes may soon be packed up and put away.
However, at the present time, Disney and Warner Bros are still playing too much.
The question is how long can the audience be patient?