Samba TV reports that Zack Snyder’s Justice League attracted 1.8 million HBO Max households in its first five minutes during the opening weekend of March 19-21.
That number is behind the 2.2 million U.S. households that watched Wonder Woman 1984 on the streamer between December 25th and 27th.
Samba TV searches for terrestrial smart TVs. Separately, experts informed us that the cut of more than four hours from Snyder’s cut was huge, but it lagged behind Wonder Woman 1984.
Samba TV showed that the diversity division for the Snyder Cut families was black demos (+ 17%), Hispanic (+ 20%) and Asian (+ 18%) with excess indexation. Of the 25 largest markets, the ones that most indexed were San Francisco (+ 67%), Sacramento (+ 33%) and Los Angeles (+ 32%).
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Wonder Woman 1984 saw Seattle (+ 93%), San Francisco (+ 79%) and Portland (+ 50%) indexing in excess during their first weekend on the job, with families earning more than $ 100,000 outperforming the US overall, as well as families with people aged 25 to 54, Hispanic families (+ 17%) and Asian families (+ 14%). At the end of 2020, WW1984 reached 3.03 million households by Samba TV.
Interestingly, Samba TV discovered Zack Snyder’s Justice League surpassing the debut of the first Disney + / Marvel’s weekend The Falcon and the Winter Soldier that they registered in 1.7 million households. Disney + released a statement yesterday stating that Falcon and the Winter Soldier posted the most viewed weekend premiere of all time on Disney +, and Samba TV data confirms that.
Justice League grossed $ 657.9 million worldwide with an estimated production cost of $ 300 million in November 2017 and, according to funding sources for the movie Deadline, lost $ 60 million at the time. That price in Justice League is now worth an estimated $ 370 million, given additional photo reshoots and VFX, while Warner Bros. responded to the social media call from fans of the photo and launched to #ReleaseTheSnyderCut, seeing a worthy reinvestment and making it a worthwhile reinvestment. jewel for HBO Max.
The new cut greatly expands the arc of the character of DC superhero Cyborg, played by Ray Fisher. This actor has been vocal on social media, accusing Justice LeagueJoss Whedon, deputy director of the company, for rude and abusive behavior during the remakes four years ago, a complaint that WarnerMedia investigated and reported that corrective measures were taken.