Civil War will have a bigger opening weekend than BvS. bookmark it
Lol. Didn't AoU do less than (the well received) Avengers its opening weekend? You bet I'll bookmark this.
Batman isn't guaranteed box office gold. Batman Begins opened with $48M and ended its domestic run at $205M. Of course that was off the back of the dismal Batman and Robin and this one follows the revered Nolan trilogy but it's not like MoS was universally loved either.
I hope people aren't too disappointed if this ends up performing like just another blockbuster movie.
Not sure I understand the first part of your post if you explain the reason behind your counter-argument.
And MoS came from an equally abysmal Superman Returns. It still managed to do 128 mil on its own. You add the market power of (a new) Batman and to some extent Wonder Woman, I'm sure anything below 200 is a failure. But we'll see.
It's not going to make $300 million, reason being you looked at star wars marketing and hype we had young people and older people to see their favourite characters back on screen. Now with this some people are skeptical because of synder directing. My friends hated man of steel and is slightly excited for this. Then you have a new batman, once again some people excited and some still skeptical. Honestly, it's probably going to make roughly around 175 million to 200 million but no 300 million. If star wars can't do it yet no one can.
Wait, didn't I provide an explanation for this? Star Wars is 40 years old. Batman and Superman are double of that. Wouldn't you say these two characters cover a wider variety of young and the older audiences? Not every kid/adult is into science fantasy (and of course a preference of superhero
and science fantasy is not mutually exclusive), but you can bet every kid/adult has at least a superhero they like.
So by that logic, before TFA, a kid that's 8-10 year old is most certain to want to see Batman and/or Superman, than Star Wars, a franchise whose latest film would have predated his/her birth by a year or more. Superman/Batman do not need films to stay relevant for young audiences, cartoons and merchandise do the job.