‘Superman’ opens to $217 million globally, DC’s biggest since ‘The Batman’

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SupermanThe first film under the newly renamed media franchise of the comic strip giant, the DC universe, has climbed expectations this weekend for a $ 122 million stellar open to the national box-office and $ 217 million worldwide. Although this number just reaches the projection of the National Research Group follow -up pillar – $ 125 million at $ 145 million at the interior opening – it exceeds DC and the Warner Bros. distributor. ‘Own projections of $ 90 million at $ 125 million. With an estimated budget of $ 225 million, Superman is about to become profitable, even adjusting this number of marketing expenses, generally hidden from publicly available results.

Place the first new version of Krypton’s latest son in more than a decade in context shows how welcome a boon is welcome Superman is at DC. The opening of the film is the best since 2022 Batmanexceeded the last solo output of the Supe, Steel man ($ 116.6 million in the first interior) and represents a higher sum than the lifetime bumps of an amazing six of the 10 most recent films of DC. Beetle Bleu, Shazam! Fury of the gods,, WONDER WOMAN 1984,, The suicide teamAnd Birds of prey all failed to cross $ 100 million in their interior races.

Superman Director James Gunn, producer / co-head of DC Peter Safran and the stars David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan and Nicolas Hoult are currently pretty, and it is without guilt to start-their success has not come at the cost of failures from other films at the box office this weekend.

Jurassic World Rebirth lost a respectable 57% His second week of release, winning second place on national and global rankings with $ 40 million and $ 108 million, respectively. Its world total has already managed the half-million, almost in accordance with its predecessor, 2022 Jurassic World Dominionwhich at this stage of its national race, had brought in $ 250.2 million to Renaissance“S 232.1 million dollars. The combined power of the Star of Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey and Mahershala Ali, however, could not place Renaissance Everywhere near the most profitable entrance to the franchise so far, 2015 Jurassic worldwhich had brought in $ 402.8 million during his second week of release.

No other new version has made on the top 10 of the national or global box office this week, except the Chinese animated film Curious tales of a templewhich obtained the last place in the world graph with an open of $ 5.5 million in Chinese theaters alone.

Elsewhere, the usual suspects have all taken up their roles on previous editions of the Box-Office report. F1: the film And How to train your dragon Has hung the third and fourth places on the national and global charts this weekend. Brad Pitt and Joseph Kosinski’s runner has taken $ 13 million at the national level for a crude to date $ 136 million, and the live remake of the 2010 animated classic collected $ 7.8 million at a global transport of 239.0 million dollars. Worldwide, F1 now has $ 393.3 million, while Dragon has $ 560.7 million.

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Animated adventure of the pixar space Elio Continues its free fall after omitting to obtain in orbit with a global opening weekend of $ 21 million at $ 35 million – the worst in business history. No good news this weekend either, the film taking only $ 3.9 million at the national level and $ 9.9 worldwide, although this represents only a decrease of 31% compared to last weekend. Lilo & Stitch And Mission: Impossible – The final calculation Also take place during their eighth weeks of liberation, but while the first has long exceeded its budget, the second is still fighting to cross the dark in the world.

A pocket of movies likely to make a splash Superman And Jurassic World Rebirth.

But if a genre can inflict a sudden upheaval, its horror and next weekend sees the release of the I know what you did last summer Reboot, with Gen Z up-And-Commers (Madelyn Cline, Chase Su Wonders), which act as analogues the original stable of the Grandeur of the X generation (Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jennifer Love Hewitt, which resumes its role in the new film).

Paramount Failed The film can also prove to be a substantial theatrical draw, not only because children’s films like Lilo & Stitch And A minecraft film have already done well this year, but because Failed presents the long -awaited return of Rihanna to entertainment.

Unlikely to pose a serious challenge for first place, but it’s good to keep an eye on the reward season, however, is Ari Aster EddingtonAn overall social farce with Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone.