DC can run but it can't hide.

[trashcanman]

www.ign.com/articles/2016/01/04/is-daredevil-season-2-debuting-the-same-day-as-batman-v-superman

True to Disney's "crush all competition" release format, they set theri esablished franchise Captain America: Civil War against DC's flagging BvS, so DC sent their potential cash cow as far away from it in the cinema as they could. If the rumor is true, Marvel is responding by using Netflix to fuck them. Pay through the nose to watch something that looks like a total disaster, or binge-watch the second season of an awesome show (now with Punisher and Elektra!)? You're screwed, DC.

[The Curmudgeon]

It's telling that Zack Snyder had to go on Twitter and try to assure fans that the ridiculously packed trailer (Superman! Batman! Luthor! Doomsday! Zod! Wonder Woman! A hat! A box of cigars!) didn't give the whole movie away. As one magazine put it "don't worry, there's still plenty of brooding for everyone."

As good as the original series was, and as exciting as the trailer for the second season was (if this was a DC trailer it would have shown you Elektra, Punisher, Daredevil fighting Punisher, kissing Elektra, finding out her secret identity and then teaming up with the Punisher to fight another huge villain), I don't see it being much in the way of financial competition for Batman vs Superman. As much as we've ragged on the movie, I can see it making a fucking insane amount of money. On pure name recognition alone, Average Joe is going to put down their money to see Batman fighting Superman more than he would to see Cap vs Iron Man. I hope I'm wrong about that, though, because Civil War looks fantastic.

[trashcanman]

In the past, TV and film weren't really competitors, but with the dawn of the bingewatch I have to wonder if hardcore comic nerds wouldn't rather stay home and cram 13 more hours of a show that wowed everyone just getting revved up for a full season during the weekend than go and see a film that every piece of marketing suggests will be terrible. I'll likely do exactly that unless early reviews convince me that the film is nothing like what the trailers made it out to be.