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Originally Posted by Augen
An interesting choice.
Did people think that Black Panther might flop? Don't get me wrong, it did really well, especially domestically, but for me if you're in the MCU right now it is hard to imagine a bomb after Guardians of the Galaxy showed Disney and Marvel can succeed with lesser known characters. I'll be surprised if any MCU movie loses money, included the upcoming Captain Marvel.
Would you have been surprised if Venom would have lost money? Would you if Black Panther?
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The definition of "flopping" being making less money than the movie cost then yes I would have believed that to be possible for both. I am not aware of the budgets for either. So I think you are intrinsically tying profits and loses into the revenue for each movie.
I get and agree that Venom feels like a smaller film but therefore less risky.
Black Panther wasn't even on my radar when it was released. I probably did expect Venom to be worse movie. Black Panther is still more surprising because even if I felt it could be better than this Venom I still expected BP to be mediocre. Also would have guessed Black Panther to cost much more and have to earn more to be profitable.
But as someone personally indicated Venom is an EXTREMELY popular CHARACTER much more so than Black Panther (even more so BEFORE Black Panther).
So to conclude, regardless of revenue I would have expected more interest in a Venom movie than a Black Panther movie and for Venom to be a cheaper movie so for Black Panther to both make more revenue and still be so profitable was still way more surprising.
Not many movies make their money now by being good movies but by hype and everyone wanting to feel like part of the crowd. Sometimes a movie being good or bad can affect this and sometimes not.
When a comic book movie hits when the public consciousness is receptive to seeing a comic movie it will make good money.