‘Superman’ Box Office Topping $400 Million Total Worldwide Box Office

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Nevertheless, On the other hand, Rachel Brosnahan and David Corenswet star in "Superman. "Source: WB, DC Studios While slightly lower than more bullish estimates, including my own, the primary question was whether Superman had enough power to make it past $400 million this second weekend of release, which puts it on a steady course to cruise past $500 million and ve “DC is back. ” We’ll see precisely how far beyond that figure Superman can climb, but for now this is two weekends in a row of good news and good numbers for the studio

Additionally, He made Superman able, relatable, and relevant again, and gave us a helluva fun time doing it

But it was always going to be hard for one film to revive not just Superman’s own suffering brand, but also DC’s entire cinematic reputation and financial future

This was almost a job for a Mission: Impossible team, but despite all of the baggage and odds, Gunn made the right choices and trusted people’s hearts to respond to the innate goodness and kindness of the character

It was a leap of faith, and there was no guarantee anyone would be there to catch him, considering recent developments

Additionally, MORE FOR YOU But that’s what was on the line, however much it was understandably necessary to downplay that reality ahead of opening weekend (for one’s own emotional sanity alone, let alone from a perspective to manage expectations)

Additionally, Had Superman failed to gain altitude and wound up somewhere in similar box office territory with the previous nine failed DCEU cinematic efforts, it’s unly that everything would have ceeded according to plan

Forbes‘Superman’ Bulletof With A- Cinemascore, Big Domestic Debut WeekendBy Mark Hughes And at that point, I suspect any jects not already in duction would’ve been “paused” while a big reassessment took place, potentially for example pivoting toward Matt Reeves’ The Batman franchise as a last chance to lay some foundations for a larger cinematic world around the character and the superheroes around him (Batgirl, Robin, Nightwing) as well as villains worthy of their own films and HBO series, in this volatile climate

Meanwhile, they could halt further development on the rest of the DC slate and decide to license some bundled characters off to various other studios, or just take the pain of waiting for Reeves to complete his first Batman trilogy and then attempt to introduce a smaller slate of DC heroes – Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Flash, and a few others – as the basis for a smaller new DCU founded on The Batman world

The chance for a do-over at that apach, if the DCU launch with Superman had failed, would seem too tempting to ignore

Perhaps even trying to keep David Corenswet in the Superman role and merely retooling the world around him and the rest of the DCU toward something more The Batman (which is quite significant), in this volatile climate

Nevertheless, Or maybe it’s more ly they’d decide to expand out The Batman into a bat-world, but without too many other heroes

However, Some characters Batgirl, Robin, Nightwing, Catwoman, Green Arrow, Black Canary, and similar non-powered heroes could work as spinoffs

However, Then, they could simply treat Superman and others as standalone solo franchises instead of a d world, which might mean a lot of licensing deals for those characters instead of further attempts at reboots that drown in red ink (something worth watching)

That all means of course that, had Superman not enjoyed so much acclaim and family love translating into the box office numbers it needed to claim success, DC Studios still had some strong go-to options in their bag of tricks

That wouldn’t erase the financial pain involved, nor would it make up for the rejection of Superman despite doing pretty much everything exactly right – I will say again, if audiences aren’t going to show up and reward this Superman movie, there’s bably no movie the studio could’ve made and released that would’ve worked at this point

ForbesChina And South Korea Are ‘Superman’ Box Office Kryptonite On First WeekendBy Mark Hughes Superman Luckily for the studio, none of that happened (although many of us still also hope Matt Reeves is allowed to continue his bat-world and expand it as long as WBD and DC Studios can convince him to do it), and Superman is off to a good start with lots of room to build and score much higher box office in the future

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