DC Films

It’s insane anyone was going to spend $70m on this to go straight to streaming in the first place.

Yeah, but some of the later episodes of Stranger Things were about 4 hours long, so that's kind of a bargain.

Wasn't part of Secret Invasion's budget due to COVID stuff, like Indy and Mission? Plus all the de-aging tech.

I dunno. I know they reshot a ton of it because it originally somehow sucked even harder, which pushed the budget up to $1m a minute on some episodes.

Incredibly, Citadel cost even more but at least that has a few action scenes.

Although budget guessing is difficult, SI being anywhere near that and something like Foundation being less than $50m does suggest something is going wrong on the production side in some of these shows.

When I watch the credits some of the DC and Marvel films the Visual Effects and CGI teams are massive, 300 plus people. I assume they bring in these various studios via some sort of procurement or bidding system.

But I assume if your studio or team has worked on say Avatar or Infinity War previously you charge top dollar and your bid gets the greenlight from investors or studio execs over teams who could do better work at a far more reasonable price. No doubt there's all sorts of penalty clauses for re-shoots and edits.

TLDR the leakage of money on DC/Marvel films must be insane.

Almost every "blockbuster"-level movie will have some kind of digital effect in just about every shot - background replacement, wire removal, scrubbing out advertising billboards, changing the colour of the sky, etc (or in Top Gun's case, removing the real pilots from everyone's jet apart from Tom's). And they farm these out to loads of different companies. And, sadly, these productions are often dictated by a release date publicised before they had a script or director, so time is of the essence.

So in this whole process, yeah, I can imagine all sorts of wastage and not-best-practice costs occurring, even if you're doing your best to be frugal and sensible and everyone involved is a professional.

Well, yeah, coz they already announced the film's coming out on December 17th and it's got 1500 effects shots and they only finished shooting yesterday! Chop chop, nerds, get rendering!

It’s amazing it took them 4 months to shoot the whole thing at all.

I know Hollywood use to complain about the accountants and money men but maybe there was some good there after all .

I know, it looked so rubbish I’m amazed it even took that long let alone the original filming time.

Someone got paid for suddenly deciding



As for DC they just need to get Aquaman 2 out the way. Go quiet for a bit then absolutely nail that first Superman trailer.
Diehard Snyder fans might have chilled a bit by then.

I know right. The Snydercut subreddit is run by some truly petty fucking people.

Oh, he's own take on Star Wars for Netflix. Rebel Moon or some shite.

Word round the campfire is that Aquaman is likely to be pushed back to next year if the strike is still threatening. They figure they need Momoa on promo duty.

Also I imagine that Skrull thing will never be mentioned again...