Supergirl has all the same powers as her cousin: She’s faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive. Oh, and forget about jumping tall buildings in a single bound: The woman can fly.
But all those superpowers weren’t enough to launch her movie past Toy Story 5. Not even close.
For the second straight weekend, Toy Story 5 topped the weekend’s box office. It buzzed to another $70 million in North America, pushing its total domestic gross to $297.2 million. It’s done nearly as well overseas, too—so much so that if you look at its global gross, it stands at a dynamic $585 million. That’s a total that even Emperor Zurg might appreciate.
Supergirl, meanwhile, struggled to make much of a dent.
The estimated $38 million that Supergirl earned seems respectable enough—until you consider that DC and Warner Bros. spent at least $170 million making the thing, not counting marketing costs. It’s an extraordinarily dismal start for a modern superhero flick. According to Deadline Hollywood, Supergirl barely outearned the opening weekend of DC’s Joker: Folie a Deux ($37.6 million), and it fell short of The Marvels’ $46.1 million opening, the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s lowest effort.
Supergirl didn’t do any better internationally, either, earning $30 million overseas to punch up its worldwide gross to a measly $68 million. The film’s performance was so subpar that DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safran said as much to The New York Times: “While Supergirl didn’t meet our box office expectations, it’s just one component of a broader, long-term strategy at DC Studios that we remain confident in.”
Of course, superheroes are famous for getting back up after getting knocked down. So perhaps Supergirl can shake off this bit of box-office kryptonite yet.
Fans continue to be obsessed with Obsession. The horror flick earned another $9.8 million to finish third, shoving its overall domestic tally to $233.9 million.
Jacka–: Best and Last certainly can’t add the word Richest to its title. The $8.4 million that the film took home in North America makes it the lowest debut for any film in the franchise. It took a dramatic pratfall and landed in fourth place.
Disclosure Day closed out the top five with an $8.1 million weekend stateside. Steven Spielberg’s latest has now earned $94.4 million in North America.
Looking down the list, we find a couple of other newcomers worth noting. BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Calamity earned $3 million to finish eighth. Clearly, it would’ve done better with a longer title.
Finally, Lucky Strike proved, well, rather unlucky. The war film earned just about $777,000 to finish, appropriately enough, 13th.
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