Will the Snyder cut appear on HBO Max?

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#RestoreTheSnyderVerse is now trending over 303K at the time of writing.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latestly.com/socially/entertainment/hollywood/restorethesnyderverse-trends-on-twitter-ahead-of-dc-fandome-2021-2958280.html/amp

What a farce of a company Warner is.

[The Laughing Fish]

#RestoreTheSnyderVerse is now trending over 303K at the time of writing.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latestly.com/socially/entertainment/hollywood/restorethesnyderverse-trends-on-twitter-ahead-of-dc-fandome-2021-2958280.html/amp

What a farce of a company Warner is.

I read that it trended at 390K, ahead of nearly all of the DC-releated hashtags except for the main #DCFanDome hashtag.

Good effort.

[Travesty]

I'm sure most of you have this on 4k already, but it's on early black friday sale on Amazon and Walmart for $10.

I picked it up

[The Laughing Fish]

I'm very impressed to see ZSJL is selling phenomenally well since it has been out on Blu-Ray for months. At the time of writing, it's still sitting at number one of the Blu-Ray best sellers chart on Amazon.com, as you can see in the screenshot I attached to this post.

I don't pay much attention to the scooper ViewerAnon, but he is spot on right here.

Raise your glasses to Warner Bros, who this year finally had most of the world cheering the Snyder Cut and excited for a real future for the DCEU and... promptly did nothing with it. Simply the best studio there is.

https://twitter.com/ViewerAnon/status/1458490793778298880

Meanwhile, Clay Staub - who worked as second unit director of JL - tweeted these words of encouragement.

There's always part seven...

#RestoreTheSnyderVerse

https://twitter.com/Clay_Staub/status/1459174366185353219

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Blu-ray Sales: November 7-13: Zack Snyder's Justice League Knocks Off The Suicide Squad

For the week that ended on November 13th, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment's Zack Snyder's Justice League topped the Blu-ray chart once again, knocking off Warner's own The Suicide Squad, which had held the top spot for the past three weeks. The four-hour epic is a director's cut of the 2017 film Justice League, a film which was completed by an uncredited Joss Whedon when Snyder had to leave the production. Following mixed reviews and poor box office compared to its competitors, fans began petitioning Warner to "release the Snyder Cut" of the film. While it was initially considered to be a pipe dream, Warner announced in February 2020 that the "Snyder Cut" was indeed moving forward and set to debut in 2021 on their HBO Max streaming service, with some $70 million more being spent on visual effects and re-shoots that took place in October 2020. The film premiered on March 18, 2021 and while there's no box office to speak of so far, critical reaction has been more positive than the 2017 version. This week, Zack Snyder's Justice League had an HD share of 85% and 60% of units sold from the 4K UHD format.

Returning to to second place on the Blu-ray chart is the week's top disc seller, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment's F9: The Fast Saga AKA Fast and Furious 9. The ninth main film in the franchise was originally planned for a 2019 release, but was delayed several times, first by the release of a spin-off film, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw and then by the coronavirus pandemic. to where the film did not get a release until May 2021 internationally and June 2021 domestically. In spite of mixed reviews, the film broke pandemic box office records and has pulled in $173 million domestically and an astounding $543 million internationally, with its $716 million worldwide total making it the second highest-grossing film of 2021, behind only China's Hi, Mom. This week, F9: The Fast Saga sold 92% as many Blu-ray units as Zack Snyder's Justice League, with an HD share of 48% and just 3% of units sold from the 4K UHD format.

Dropping to third place in its fourth week is Warner Bros. Home Entertainment's The Suicide Squad. A follow-up to the 2016 film Suicide Squad, Gunn's film aimed to incorporate some of the previous film's characters in an R-rated adventure with new recruits. While the result was greeted with a positive critical reception, The Suicide Squad opened in July and August to disappointing box office results, grossing just over $167 million worldwide against a budget of $185 million. This week, The Suicide Squad sold 51% as many Blu-ray units as Zack Snyder's Justice League, with an HD share of 50% and 11% of units sold from the 4K UHD format.

Elsewhere on the charts, the week's top new release was Universal Pictures Home Entertainment's Respect, which came in at No. 16 on the Blu-ray chart, with an HD share of 39%. No 4K UHD edition of the title was available.

Source: https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=29657

Not bad for a film that was once thought of as a "pipe dream that didn't exist". Of course, Emmerich and co would probably be seething at the news, since they don't like making money.

[The Laughing Fish]

Digital agency Home Brew have published a case study report about their social media content rollout plan promoting ZSJL, which resulted in big numbers.



https://homebrewagency.com/projects/case-study/zack-snyder-s-justice-league

In addition to the international branch at WarnerMedia hailing the film as a "global phenomenon" and how it continues to sell extremely well on digital downloads and home video, I think it's safe to say that ZSJL has been resounding success. Despite what the dickheads currently in charge of WB would have you believe.

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Variety journalist Owen Gleiberman named ZSJL among his list of best movies of the year, coming in at number eight.

Twenty-two years into the 21st century, if you're a movie fan chances are you spend more time than you bargained for watching lavishly scaled comic-book franchise action films: those CGI spectacles that are good, bad, or indifferent, and seldom very much more. But Zack Snyder, restoring his four-hour cut of the DC origin story that got bowdlerized (and Whedon-ized) by Warner Bros., creates a superhero movie with a difference. It's a piece of ominous glittering Wagnerian comic-book pop, its superhero backstories unfolding with an imaginative fury, its battles spilling forth with a dark grandeur worthy of Tolkien (not the "LOTR" films, but the dream battles Tolkien wrote on the page), all rendered with an incendiary conviction that sweeps you up and won't let go.

https://variety.com/lists/2021-best-movies/zack-snyders-justice-league-3/

Not bad for a film that was long described as "a pipe dream" by the wretched studio. Now imagine where we would be if it came out back in 2017 as it was supposed to.

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Unsurprisingly, ZSJL was acknowledged as the most talked about movie on Twitter for the whole year. It's also the first time Jason Kilar acknowledged it in months, the last time he posted anything about it was a countdown to a trailer back in February.

https://twitter.com/jasonkilar/status/1469017311566774277

Detractors will complain fans have spammed the hashtag, but how else are you supposed to express your desire and excitement for something you want to see?

Even if ZSJL wasn't the most talked about movie of the year, it's real achievement was not only it came out, but the fact it's selling on digital and home video outstandingly well. WarnerMedia international didn't call it a "global phenomenon" for nothing, after all.

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Snyder has confirmed they won't release the alternate Joker dialogue on home video.

I saw this video of Snyder implying that alternate Batman-Joker scene was originally what he intended, but Warner Butchers refused to let him add it to the final cut. 

The date of this interview must've been taken earlier this year, when ZSJL was coming out. The deleted scene was released in early April.

I always thought this scene with the Robin murder/Death in the Family callback was much superior than the final cut's version of Joker calling Batman's bluff.

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YouTuber loudmouth Jeremy Jahns has named ZSJL the best movie of the year.

I don't like Jahns, or any of these supposed YouTube critics. Personally I find his style particularly annoying, and apparently he's a real dickhead because he once wore blackface while reviewing another movie.

But I got to admit, him giving ZSJL this much high praise is a welcome surprise, even went further by admitting to wants the Snyderverse restored. Granted, maybe if he hadn't jumped on the anti-BvS bandwagon back in 2016 and contributed to the narrative, things might've been different. With that said, I heard he recently reviewed BvS Ultimate Edition and gave that high praise too.

If nothing else, ZSJL is a triumph in artistic integrity, despite the studio's efforts in trying to sabotage it. Too bad GL appears to be a sacrificial lamb though.