>>104643855Affleck's career depends on his getting praise. Do you really think the big stars get all that money and just sit on it, or spend on hookers and blow?
He bought praise.
>>104643866It comes out in the US last so that if it does badly there the studio can blame pirating.
Plus it never hurts the hype machine to be able to point to the existing worldwide gross; China is a big place and just getting into movies as a social experience. Frankly, you could charge them a dollar a head and you'd still make ten million on a bad day.
>>104643846Batman is fucking dead in the water. They've still got Affleck signed up for the role and he's a mess. If they recast they have to pay him off, which is going to make profit even harder to come by if the next movie is at all successful, because he'll still get his gross points and so will the new guy. The only other way around that is to use Batman in very sparing roles where it's not necessary to have above the line credits for his actor - basically an extra - at which point you may as well just make a Robin movie and call it quits.
If they don't recast they either don't make a movie until the contract expires (which is probably sometime next decade) or they only use him in bit parts and cameos, assuming he can keep his shit together long enough. You know, the guy who came in with his own writer halfway into filming and demanded rewrites to make everything worse.
