With Avengers: Infinity War having crossed the $2 billion mark, people are as overzealous as ever about the film. Ever since I saw the film I have had to deal with people arguing that it is the greatest comic book film ever made. I’m not going to go into the numerous and unsightly flaws of …
Tag: DCEU
May 14
The Box Office Conundrum: Part 3
In the previous article, I basically took the raw data and compiled it into a chart for ease of reading. Today, I am going to analyze that data and interpret it. The first chart shows total box office gross. The is the most common metric used by Hollywood to declare a movie’s success. Twenty two …
Apr 08
Black Panther, or Why the MCU Trumps the DCEU
The film sensation Black Panther has recently surpassed Titanic to become the number three highest grossing film of all time. Now I debate the effectiveness of measuring film gross without accounting for inflation, but that is a discussion for another time. And while the MCU debates blockbuster after blockbuster, the DCEU flounders. The DCEU makes …