James Gunn’s Superman had a reasonably tremendous opening weekend.
The film grossed an estimated $122 million in home theaters plus one other $95 million abroad for a complete of $217 million. That’s an enormous enchancment over most of DC’s films of late, together with The Flash ($55 million), Aquaman and the Misplaced Kingdom ($27.6 million), and the disastrous Joker: Folie a Deux ($37.6 million). Provided that Gunn’s Superman is the primary characteristic in a model new DC Universe, that’s not only a good signal; it’s virtually a essential one.
Superman is simply the third movie of 2025 with a gap weekend of $100 million or extra, after A Minecraft Film ($162 million) and Lilo & Sew ($146 million). The final DC film to open with $100 million in theaters in its opening weekend was The Batman, which earned $134 million in three days again in 2022.
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Notably, it’s also the most important opening weekend for a solo Superman film in historical past. That reality does include an asterisk, as Batman v Superman: Daybreak of Justice opened to $166 million in 2016. That was a mega-blockbuster with two A-list DC heroes although (or three, in the event you embrace Surprise Lady) — and in the event you imagine the reported funds figures on-line, it value greater than Gunn’s Superman as nicely. ($250 million versus $225 million, at the least in keeping with what’s listed on websites like Field Workplace Mojo.)
Whereas Gunn’s Superman did outgross Zack Snyder’s Man of Metal of their respective opening weekends, $122 million versus $116 million, it’s value noting that these numbers don’t take inflation under consideration — and in the event you alter Man of Metal’s whole, you wind up with $161 million.
So: James Gunn’s Superman is off to a really stable begin. It’s already amongst the most important Superman movies ever made. Nevertheless it must proceed to do nicely — one thing that will likely be robust to do within the weeks forward as extra competitors arrives in theaters, together with new Smurfs and I Know What You Did Final Summer time movies, and, most significantly, Marvel’s The Improbable 4: First Steps.
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