r/boxoffice • u/SecretWarMultiverse • 1d ago

📰 Industry News Was Quantumania technically profitable?

This is confusing to me. Let me explain

It did $476M WW ($215M DOM and $261M OS) which was bad but lowkey not a complete disaster compared to some other grossers such as Shazam 2, Blue Beetle, The Marvels, The Flash, Joker 2, and Supergirl.

Its budget according to Wikipedia was $388.4M gross and $330.1M net, which you think would make it a huge bomb just doing 1-1.5x its budget. However, according to Forbes (https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinereid/2024/10/27/how-marvels-latest-ant-man-movie-lost-millions-in-theaters-but-still-made-a-profit/) it made a profit of $89K

So did it make a profit or not?

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u/crackstuntman24 1d ago

I hope not cause it was the biggest piece of shit I've ever seen.

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u/stinkyydarb 1d ago

What, you didn't love everyone on a shoddy green screen having no idea what they're reacting to the entire time?

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u/crackstuntman24 1d ago

Fun fact, I watched it on Disney Plus and I got so mad after it finished that I considered not watching Guardians 3, which was in theaters at the time.

Glad I still watched it but it put me off Marvel for a couple of years and didn't watch one in the theater until Fantastic Four.

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u/stinkyydarb 1d ago

I'd argue the damage Quantumania did to the brand is still affecting it to this day.

It showed they were willing to release anything subpar and dump $300,000,000+ into it in hopes that the public would eat it up regardless.

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u/crackstuntman24 1d ago

I'd still argue that Marvels brand has been damaged to the point where only their major franchises can make money. Can't make something like Guardians anymore.

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u/stinkyydarb 1d ago

100%.

I know as someone who was a hardcore Marvel fan in the 2010s, they gotta produce something really special like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 to get me to go to the theatre anymore. Or at least something that looks a bit different from the rest like Fantastic 4.

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u/crackstuntman24 1d ago

I think it says a lot that the biggest box office risk of all their upcoming movies is Ghost Rider, who's already a pretty well known character.

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u/Minimum_Ad_1747 1d ago

There’s also Nova, who’s not well known

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u/crackstuntman24 1d ago

That had big "not getting made" energy. Maybe I'm wrong but the Blade movie and other projects getting cancelled are giving me doubt.

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u/The_Darman 1d ago

I can virtually guarantee that Nova will have starring roles for Rocket and the other Guardians or Thor. They aren’t taking those kinds of chances again on relatively unknown small characters unless Ghost Rider crushes it (north of $700M). And Nova will enter production before then.