Avengers director Joe Russo SLAMMED for shading Martin Scorsese over Killers Of The Flower Moon’s box office numbers: ‘In 50 years no one will know who he is’

By James On Oct 30, 2023

Avengers: Endgame director Joe Russo is being criticized for throwing shade at Martin Scorsese over Killers Of The Flower Moon’s box office numbers.

The drama started when the 52-year-old filmmaker took to his Instagram to mock the legendary 80-year-old Goodfellas director, who has been critical of Marvel films in the past.

After Scorcese’s daughter Francesca posted a TikTok video sketch of the legendary filmmaker pretending to direct his dog, Russo took to his social media to share a video with his dog, which he said he named “Box Office.”

He poked at the movie icon in the caption of the short clip on Instagram, writing: “Looks like we have the same muse… @martinscorsese_”

Obviously, this was a swipe at Scorsese’s criticism of Marvel films, including Russo’s Avengers: Endgame, which became the highest-grossing film of all time at the time, grossing $2.8 billion.

Taking a stand: Avengers: Endgame director Joe Russo (left) is criticized for throwing shade at Martin Scorsese over Killers Of The Flower Moon’s box office numbers

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This was because Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon only made $9 million this weekend, which was good for third place at the US box office.

It has reached a worldwide total of $84.68 million, including $40.68 million domestically.

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Another compared Russo and Scorsese to the iconic “I Feel Bad For You / I Don’t Think About You At All” meme from Mad Men featuring Don Draper (played by Jon Hamm) and Michael Ginsberg (played by Ben Feldman).

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Scorsese has made a habit of bashing the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), as in September the movie icon criticized the superhero genre of films in a magazine profile.

Speak with GQ Ahead of the release of his latest film, the 80-year-old award-winning director discussed his life, career and how comic book films have changed the industry.

“The danger is what it does to our culture, because there will now be generations who think that movies are just that — that’s what movies are,” Scorsese said.

The drama started when the 52-year-old filmmaker took to his Instagram to mock the legendary 80-year-old Goodfellas director, who has been critical of Marvel films in the past.

He poked at the movie icon in the caption of the short clip on Instagram, writing: “Looks like we have the same muse… @martinscorsese_”

Steady: This was because Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon only made $9 million this weekend, which was good for third place at the US box office

‘That means we have to fight back stronger. And it has to come from the grassroots level. It has to come from the filmmakers themselves. And you’ll have, you know, the Safdie brothers, and you’ll have Chris Nolan, you know what I mean?’

This isn’t the first time Scorsese has attacked Marvel. In 2019, he said that the comic book movies are not cinema, but are more like theme parks.

“I really don’t think the content produced is really cinema,” Scorsese said. ‘It’s almost like AI is making a movie. And that doesn’t mean you don’t have great directors and special effects people creating beautiful works of art.”

‘But what does it mean? What do these films mean, what will they bring you? Other than kind of completing something and then removing it from your mind, from your entire body, you know? So what’s in it for you?’

Scorsese said the film industry is not the same as it was seventy years ago, when he started his career.

He said studios are no longer “interested in supporting individual voices expressing their personal feelings or their personal thoughts, personal ideas and feelings on a big budget.” And what has happened now is that they have subsumed it into what they call the Indies.’

He is an advocate for film preservation and attended a meeting this summer with other famous directors and Warner Bros. Discovery boss David Zaslav following recent layoffs at Turner Classic Movies.

Last October, Scorsese denounced the film industry’s “repulsive” obsession with ratings for “degrading” cinema.

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He said that since the 1980s, the industry has become more interested in ratings and how much money films make.

In his GQ interview, he said he was turned down when executives tried to get him to leave one of The Departed’s two leads live so they could turn it into a franchise.

“What they wanted was a franchise. It was not about a moral issue of a person living or dying. And then the studio guys walked out and they were very sad, because they just didn’t want that movie. They wanted the franchise. That means: I can no longer work here.’

‘The danger there is what it does to our culture’: Scorsese has made a habit of bashing the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), as in September the movie icon criticized the superhero genre of films in a magazine profile with GQ back in September

He said movie theaters are not dying, but they need to do more to entice people to watch movies.

“I think there will always be theatrics because people want to experience this together,” Scorsese said.

“But at the same time, theaters need to go a step further to make them places where people want to go to be entertained or to see something that moves them.”

This summer, Scorsese’s Goodfellas was named the best gangster film of all time, according to Ranker.