dc The Flash stumbled out of the gate for its opening weekend, and the situation did not improve going into the Ezra Miller film’s second weekend. Despite the prominent return of Michael Keaton’s Batman, which was heavily featured in trailers and TV spots, The Flash saw a 72% drop in box office. There hasn’t been … Read more
Sony Pictures Morbius has become the little engine that couldn’t but kept going anyway! The Jared Leto movie became a pandemic spectacle after being delayed several times and finally hitting theaters on April Fools Day of this year…to disastrous reviews. But hey, at least they were being good sports about it! After inspiring ironic memes … Read more
NETFLIX Earlier this year, Morbius became that rare beast: an underperforming comic book movie. Plagued with poor reviews and bizarre behind-the-scenes revelations, the DCEU entry fared much better as a social media joke, which became so voluminous that a) star Jared Leto got in on it and b) Sony added more theaters, hoping chuckleheads would … Read more
Sony For the last two weeks, Morbius was trending on Twitter. The Jared Leto-starring comic book movie, about a scientist who accidentally turns himself into a vampire, didn’t do so hot when it hit theaters in April. But all of a sudden it was the talk of the internet. It wasn’t exactly because people adored … Read more
Sony Pictures Morbius was that rarest of beasts: a comic book movie that dramatically underperforms. The Jared Leto-starrer couldn’t even blame the pandemic, which no longer keeps younger (or, now, older) audiences at home. But the poorly-reviewed film has enjoyed an irony-soaked second life: It became a target for jokey memes, which became so popular … Read more
Morbius instantly became a meme when it first premiered, purely because it is a joy to mock online, and two months later, memes might have revived the “living vampire” movie. The Marvel film’s release was delayed six different times before finally coming out in the shadow of Spider-Man: No Way Home, a massive critical and … Read more
Sony Despite failing to light critics or the box office on fire when it first premiered in April, Morbius is surprisingly returning to theaters this weekend. After only appearing on 83 screens during Memorial Day weekend, Sony has somehow managed to get Morbius onto more than 1,000 screens where it will go up against the … Read more
Twitch isn’t the only platform that Morbius fans are using to share the film. According to Polygon, it has been streamed in Discord chats, compressed into a GIF on Tumblr, and even shared in two-minute increments on Twitter. It seems that despite the bad reviews and modest box office debut, the film has continued to … Read more
Morbius continues to stretch the limits of “any publicity is good publicity,” as fans (if “fans” is even the correct term here) gather in the thousands to illegally stream the movie on Twitch. The vampiric Marvel spinoff is definitely attracting more hype now than when it first came out, but we doubt this is what Sony … Read more
The summer of Morbius ain’t over ’til it’s over. With disappointing box office receipts and a sweet 17% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, Jared Leto’s vampiric Marvel spinoff is a certified flop. Its main cultural impact is a slew of self-referential memes about how much it sucks—and a month after Morbius’ release date, another one is … Read more
Getty Image The summer of Morbius is over before it even started. Jared Leto’s vampire movie opened last weekend to $39 million at the domestic box office, including $5.7 million in Thursday previews. Those aren’t Spider-Man: No Way Home or even Venom: Let There Be Carnage numbers, but they were higher than expected. Was this … Read more
Sony With Morbius now out in theaters and, uh, not exactly wowing critics (Or Martin Scorsese. Sorry, Tyrese.), director Daniel Espinosa has been an open book about the process behind bringing the film to life after it experienced a record-breaking amount of delays due to the pandemic. What’s become abundantly clear in these post-release interviews … Read more