'Superman' Box Office: It's A Bird, It's a Plane, It's... A Very Promising $22.5 Million In Preview Grosses!
In a skewed irony, the latest Man of Steel reboot earned about as much, sans inflation, as the last 'Man of Steel' in its respective Thursday advance-night showings.
Flying above the noise
James Gunn’s Superman got off to a flying start in North America. The David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, and Nicholas Hoult-starring superhero melodrama nabbed preview grosses (both Thursday showings and a Tuesday Fandango/Amazon Prime paid sneak) totaling $22.5 million. That’s the top such pre-release gross since Deadpool & Wolverine ($38 million toward a $211 million Fri-Sun debut) in July 2024. Even if it’s only exactly as leggy as that MCU threequel (at least over the initial opening), it’ll still gross $125 million, nearly tied with The Batman’s opening from a $21 million Thursday gross. Hell, even Thursday-to-weekend legs on par with Batman v Superman ($166 million/$27.7 million… hold that thought) gets Superman’s debut frame to $135 million.
For the record, the last week’s worth of Dean Cain, Kellyanne Conway and other such schmucks bitching about (presumably sight-unseen) the movie being “woke” should be treated as exactly the disingenuous SEO-driven distraction that it is. It’s yet another attempt by the online grift machine to turn an accepted fact or agreed-upon conclusion into a debatable theoretical, while again pushing the idea that agreed-upon social codes like “Don’t be an asshole” are political wedge issues. Whether you like the movie or not, this “discourse” will have exactly as much of an impact on Superman’s box office as did online trolls bitching about Brie Larson ruining the MCU did just before Captain Marvel topped $1.1 billion.