box office

[Mudd]

Weekend totals have been revised upward (which happens quite often):

Warner Bros’ and DC Studios‘ Superman is higher with a $125M opening. This is where rivals saw it on the high yesterday AM; the James Gunn movie’s Sunday being robust with $31.3M, -17%. Warners’ revised Friday and Saturday for the pic is $56.1M and $37.6M. Not even kryptonite will ease Superman’s grip on his second weekend, which should be around -50% with around $62.5M. How’s that? Matt Reeves’ The Batman eased -50% in its second weekend while the last two Gunn Guardians of the Galaxy movies, Vol. 2 and Vol. 3 respectively declined -56% and -48%. You’ll remember how much many marveled about the hold on the third GOTG.

Superman‘s competition this weekend are mere flies to the son of Jor-El: Paramount’s animated movie Smurfs, Sony’s reboot of I Know What You Did Last Summer and A24’s Ari Aster politico western comedy action movie, Eddington. Superman‘s wings will get clipped on July 25 with the arrival of Marvel Studios and Disney’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps.

I was wondering when they'd start talking about this - Superman more or less has a free weekend ahead of it. There are no major releases in its category; the biggest films on deck aren't expected to do more than 50 million dollars business between them on the high end projections.

Lot of runway before Fantastic Four knocks it out of #1.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Unless it has some seriously good word of mouth and legs, Superman will struggle to equal Man of Steel’s international box office.

Indeed.

 

[Set Harth]

Unless it has some seriously good word of mouth and legs, Superman will struggle to equal Man of Steel’s international box office.

You want to talk legs? Check out these legs!!

Spoiler

 

[Mudd]

Unless it has some seriously good word of mouth and legs, Superman will struggle to equal Man of Steel’s international box office.

Doesn't matter a bit.

 

[BillJ]

Doesn't matter a bit.

I would guess that every dollar counts to some degree. Though from what I've heard, the studios end up with less of each international dollar vs. domestic.

So I would imagine everything is fine, as long as the international box office doesn't completely crater.

 

[Mudd]

Everything is better than fine.

 

[StarTrek1701]

Everything is better than fine.

Anything you say, Mr James Gunn.

 

[JoeZhang]

I would guess that every dollar counts to some degree. Though from what I've heard, the studios end up with less of each international dollar vs. domestic.

So I would imagine everything is fine, as long as the international box office doesn't completely crater.

Yes, the 'cut' is different country to country and also studio to studio so all people rely on a rough rule of thumb.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Dan Murrell (who gave Superman a bad review, btw) has suggested that even if the movie doesn't make a huge profit from its theatrical run, it should be compared more to Batman Begins. That movie barely broke even at the box office, but brought back a huge amount of good will towards its franchise allowing for the box office juggernaut that was The Dark Knight. And when it comes to bringing back good will to the Superman/DC franchise, it looks like that's already happening in the US, and will gradually happen in the rest of the world once people who didn't go to the cinema see it through streaming and TV.

And that is IF the movie doesn't break even at the box office.

 

[Mudd]

Anything you say, Mr James Gunn.

Heh - that's "Mr Zaslav" to you:

 

[Mudd]

(Wicked should read "120.5"):

 

[Set Harth]

Yes, the 'cut' is different country to country

India took out the kisses and the green middle finger for some reason.

 

[Mudd]

Apparently Superman made 13 million dollars on Monday.

If true, it's a stronger hold than JWR managed on its first Monday.