'Thunderbolts*' Lost Millions Despite Great Reviews. Where Does Marvel Go Next? (variety.com)

The screen writing AI barfed up a product that pleases critics AI, but they forgot about audiences?

Let's go through the litany:

- Moneygrab reboot

- Disposes of all the old actors, except the one who always a bas relief and never really had a part of his own

- Skeletal approach to continuing the franchise

- Empty world; First because Endgame reprised The Leftovers and second because the world is literally empty

- Actors bring lazy disinterested schtick instead of charisma to bear for parts written with no character

- Pointless action

- Plot is a drug / alcohol intervention managed by Trump's press secretary

- No reason to care about what happens next in the franchise

- Regards itself as merely a collection of tropes

- Most interesting part doesn't rise even to a Star Wars "can you at least put on towel" moment

But other than this what an incredible installment for a dead franchise!

> “Thunderbolts” was slightly cheaper, costing $180 million to make and closer to $100 million to market.

> Still, “Thunderbolts*” needed to make $425 million worldwide to break even, a figure that seems unachievable.

Where does the other $145 million go?