The ‘S’ on Superman’s chest might stand for his name or his family crest or hope. But at the box office, it stands for success.
Pow! James Gunn’s DC reboot film, Superman, saved $122 million at the domestic box office in its opening weekend. Whack! That’s on top of another $95 million internationally. Bam! And that leaves the symbol of peace at $217 million worldwide. Not a bad salary for a newspaper reporter.
The rest of our list follows exactly as it did last week: Jurassic World Rebirth hatched an additional $40 million this weekend. It’s good enough for second place, and it brings its worldwide total to $529.5 million.
Crossing the checkered line in third is F1® The Movie with $13 million. But don’t count that lower domestic number out, since the movie is earning far more overseas. As of today, it’s taken in $257.2 million internationally, which accounts for 65.4% of its total earnings. Its worldwide cume is $393.4 million.
That shifts How to Train Your Dragon down to fourth this week. It gobbled $7.8 million in its fifth weekend since release, which brings its, ahem, Universal gross to $560.7 million.
And, speaking of universal, Elio finished out the weekend in fifth place, abducting an additional $3.9 million for its galactic pockets. That brings its total gross to $117.3 million.
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Love love loved Superman. I’m hoping it also performs well overseas, and I’m also hoping that Fantastic Four’s upcoming release doesn’t take too much out of Superman’s grosses. Kind of curious if the F1 movie will be able to profit from its supposedly enormous budget. Lilo and Stitch is probably about to very quietly break a billion, and it’s already #2 for the year, distantly behind Ne Zha 2 but ahead of Minecraft (except domestically but ‘Stitch’ is squeaking its way into passing it). In the US, Sinners is still #3 for the year, which for an R-rated standalone IP I think is phenomenal. I’d love to see more “unusual genre” movies try that same sort of premise, with enough traditional action and character intrigue to woo audiences while also still having an eye toward informative storytelling and even some measure of edification and historical education—preferably with fewer racial slurs.
Also, much love to The Plugged In Show. Thank you for all you did.