Birds Of Prey Has Worst-Ever Box Office Opening For A DCEU Movie

Harley Quinn is the number one henchman of a Batman villain. She is not a main character. She is not a hero. She isn't something to build your movie around.

Well, another to toss onto the get woke go broke pile. You'd think they would learn by now.

Nobody is discussing the elephant in the room. Core audience for DC movie are male not the female. If Joker can earn $1 billion why can't Birds of Prey. Because very few male are interested in a movie which shows woman power and its not the first time Ghostbusters has the same fate.

From last few years the feminist are selling their snake oil under the label of SJW and Hollywood is the biggest buyer.

Mediocre movie+burnout for silly comic films=predictable result.

Cost 80 mill to make?! Its a good movie... but not 80 mill good. Heck I would recommend this easily!

I hope good word of mouth turns it around. It's really one of the better DCEU movies, leaning more towards action-movie-parody (with some amazing fight choreography) than traditional super-hero movie. I loved it!

I thought they were saying this was the best if DC movies... now there saying it worst? which is it?

Let's make a movie that applies to less than 1% of the population and set the productions and advertising budgets to where we need a $200m box office just to break even. What's could possibly go wrong???

Hey at least it was woke

I'm 100 percent sure the dumpster fire trailers sewered this movie. I honestly beleive the movie itself was good but the marketing was horrendous and once again pushed the female ensemble gimmick then actualy making it look cool. I didn't even know it was R rated until I read an early review.

The DC Universe of movies is so beyond screwed up at this point, their best bet is to just go ahead and put the entire saga on hiatus for a about 5 years and then bring it back and start over from scratch. Thankfully we still have the movies that exist outside the DCEU like Joker, and hopefully The Batman will be good.

I think there's two problems, one is simply superhero fatigue after Endgame. Sure, the second Spiderman did very well, but it's Spiderman. The other problem is the DCEU itself; when you have trash like Man of Steel, Batman v Superman, or more relevantly, Suicide Squad in your backlog, is anyone surprised audiences are wary of DC movies? Even Wonder Woman which is regarded as their best effort was an okay movie.

A standalone Harley Quinn movie could work, but someone decided to make this another ensemble movie.

Sorry but this movie falls in the same line as the all female ghostbusters, all female Oceans movie, etc. It just doesnt work. No one saying that all female movies cant do well, its just that it doesnt employ dominance and believability. Gender roles arent all bad. Taking away the roles of male n female can be toxic.

"Harley Quinn's name can't carry a movie all on its own. I know, let's call the movie Birds of Prey so that your average Joe definitely doesn't know what it is"

But somehow this movie got a 9 on Gamespot. lmao!

I'd imagine the problem was marketing. The first i heard about this movie was yesterday, when i was actually at the cinema, none of my friends had heard of it either.

And i've seen every DC and Marvel movie released.

they have just done to much damage to their brand.

is the shocked pikachu meme still relevant? because this could bring it back lol

The trailers looked like crap, Suicide Squad sucked horribly, and she simply does not deserve her own movie in my opinion. The whole thing is a bunch of nobodies. Also sorry but it looks a bit too "girl powery" for me. Like where's the diversity? Most comic movies these days like GOTG, Avengers, Black Panther, X-Men etc. all have both strong male and female characters. This looks like it was aimed at 13 year old girls. No wonder they lost money with their R rating. Hard pass on this Spice Girls on steroids garbage. Also shout-out to Ghostbusters and Charlie's Angels. Keep flopping away.

Take a B grade ex Neighbours actress in Robbie and no matter how much people pretend she is A grade she is just not that good an actress. Especially to be a lead in a movie that is very much character acting focused. Plus people are just sick to death of women are better than men movies that are trying to dominate Hollywood and failing miserably. Even most women hate that crap so that really should be enough for them to stop being made and promoted.

It received good reviews but the awfulness of Suicide Squad still lingers to discourage any casual movie-goers to watch this in fear of wasting their time and money.

People don't want to pay to watch woke propaganda :/

Even without the wokeness it looks cringe.