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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 8856183" data-attributes="member: 4348">And yet Shang-Chi made 3x that amount.  Close release date to it as well.  In fact, TSS was still in theaters at the time.Black Widow released earlier and with streaming being seen as cutting it's profits made 379 million.The excues that it was released at a time that sufficient people were not at the theaters might work if other movies in the same genre didn't blow it away in how much was made.  Eternals which is seen by some as one of the lesser Superhero movies released (more I think of seeing it as boring than other things) made 400 million.Sure, they all could have made more money, but saying TSS flopped because there weren't enough people willing to go to the theater is kind of incorrect.  It flopped because there weren't enough people willing to go WATCH TSS in the theater.  That goes for any movie that flops.And remember, TSS made less money (even if slightly) than Wonder Woman 84.  They just cancelled WW84 but gave the reins to the entire DCU to the guy who made a movie that did worse than it in gross.One could make an argument that this is discrimination in some ways if we look at it purely from a monetary viewpoint (there are other factors at play here beyond how much the movies made, but from the money viewpoint, it could very well appear to be discrimination against the Woman directors, something that actually goes in line with the claim against Gunn that got him fired [though rehired later] from GoG3 earlier).   It's not a good look for him in some ways.Hopefully good things come out from his tenure, but right now he is having a ton of bad PR which they probably should turn around if they want to at least start on a good footing.</blockquote>

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