It would hardly have been worse for the DC film Wonder Woman 1984. The superhero blockbuster with Gal Gadot was longed for after the popular first part. Then came the corona pandemic and the Wonder Woman sequel Split on the difficult conditions.
What is Wonder Woman 1984 about?
Wonder Woman 2 begins almost 65 years after part 1. A lot of time has passed since her adventures in World War II, even if the decades have hardly left any traces of Diana Prince (Gal Gadot). She has not yet forgotten her great love Steve Trevor (Chris Pine).
We write the year 1984 and the combative Amazon works with secret identity as an archaeologist in Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC. In the course of her research, she comes into contact with a peculiar artifact: the yellow gemstone should fulfill wishes. A corresponding dubious design is behind the treasure: the power -hungry Maxwell Lord (Pedro Pascal) thrown an eye on it.
Wonder Woman 1984 never had a chance in the cinema
The superhero film with Gal Gadot is perhaps most symbolic victims of cinema policy during Corona pandemic. In Germany and partly around the globe, the cinemas were due to the infection risk closed for months. Wonder Woman’s cinema release in 1984 was postponed several times.
When it became clear that the situation would not be normalized again so quickly, the Warner studio decided: Wonder Woman 1984 should start in the US cinemas on December 25, 2020 and start at the streaming service HBO Max. A actually unthinkable strategy for a blockbuster of this size.
In Germany, the Wonder Woman sequel appeared exclusively on Sky Cinema and Sky Ticket (today WOW). In summer, the film received a small release in Germany, in which, according to Box Office Mojo, $ 71,659 came together.
The 200 million US dollar film again recorded 169 million -far too little for a cinema release. It is hard to estimate whether Wonder Woman 2 recorded his costs digitally and over the home cinema. After the pandemic, the big US studios from too early digital publications from their blockbusters moved again.
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Today on TV: When and where is Wonder Woman 1984? ProSieben shows Wonder Woman 1984 on Friday, February 7, 2025 at 8:15 p.m. The repetition follows on Saturday evening at 11:05 p.m. If the broadcast dates do not suit you, you can currently borrow or buy the film from the Üblichen VoD providers like Amazon. He is currently not found in a streaming subscription.
This article was first published in a similar form in October 2023 at Moviepilot.