Superman's Budget Controversy

In the comments of that tweet, I found someone with supposed evidence claiming Superman's budget was $363 million instead [3]. That's more than Avengers Endgame ($356 million)! [4] See the image here on the right.

The image is supposedly a tax application filled out by Warner Bros. indicating intent to shoot in Ohio.

There are a couple of red flags when I look at this.

🔴 It's basically a default table from Microsoft Word 2010, from the use of Calibri to the blue tones. See source 5, column 2, row 4 [5] Wouldn't this office use branded documents and not something that could be cobbled together in minutes by someone dedicated enough?

🔴 The tables are out of alignment with each other which tells me this was "Frankensteined" together. At best, they are screenshots of the same document stitched together later.

🔴 The government website offering the tax credit returns a 404 error (at least on my system, even with a VPN and WayBackMachine). See website and hit apply. [6]

🔴 The fact that James Gunn himself has come out and apparently debunked this. [7] [8]