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What Warner Brothers and DC touted as their answer to Marvel's The Avengers, Justice League pulled in a terrible box office on its opening weekend. Original estimates were set around $120 Million, then adjusted to $110 Million after the blockbuster success of Thor: Ragnarok. Unfortunately, Justice League didn't even hit that lower goal. Opening nationwide on Friday, Justice League made a feeble $94 Million. This places Justice League, which was meant to be the grand centerpiece of the DCU, at the bottom of the list of domestic opening weekend box office hauls.   Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice = $166 million Suicide Squad = $133.7 million Man of Steel = $116.6 million Wonder Woman = $103.3 million Justice League = $94 million

After months of behind the scenes drama, Affleck wavering on his role as Batman, Zack Snyder's departure due to a family tragedy, and Joss Whedon's massive re-shoots, Justice League opens nationwide Friday. Sorry, but I can't get excited about what feels like Warner Brothers umpteenth attempt to collaborate the DCEU. Most of that is due to the repeated disappointments they called films. Another part is having once again witnessed the all-too-familiar warning signs. Snyder may have left before production ended, but he was still a major influence...and that is never good. Whedon came in a changed a lot (for what I assume was for the better) including replacing the composer of the score, and completing massive re-shoots that reportedly accounted for 15% to 20% of the final cut.

The news, that Disney was in talks with 20th Century Fox about a possible purchase came out yesterday. Marvel fanboy nerds everywhere were excited by the possibility that the X-Men and Fantastic Four properties would finally join the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, before I could even gather my thoughts to brainoutloud the talks stalled.  But hope is on the horizon. Apparently, the reason Disney was meeting with Fox was not to buy back the film rights to Marvel characters; it was to buy the entirety of 20th Century Fox movie studios. Reports suggest Fox wants to become a smaller company, focusing on their news and sports channels. No idea why the talks of the acquisition ended, I'm going to unfairly say it was something Fox did. Disney/Marvel is on top of the world with Thor Ragnarok catapulting the MCU over the $5Billion mark domestically. While out of every 20th Century Fox film, they seemingly only find success with X-Men related movies, still the X-Men Universe comes