\u201cSuperman\u201d opened to a $125 million domestic launch last year and grossed $354 million domestically and $618 million worldwide. \u201cSupergirl\u201d is tracking for less than half that at around $40-45 million. That\u2019s below the $55 million domestic opening weekend of \u201cThe Flash,\u201d one of the last summer DC films released before the reboot, which flopped with just $271 million grossed worldwide in 2023.<\/p>\n
While \u201cThe Flash\u201d became a cautionary tale of studio overhype<\/a>, it\u2019s worth remembering that it wasn\u2019t totally savaged by the critics, who gave it a 63% Rotten Tomatoes score. But the good-but-not-great buzz was not enough to get casual moviegoers off the fence, as the film plummeted 72.5% in its second weekend behind better received animated films like \u201cSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse\u201d and \u201cElemental.\u201d<\/p>\n As early reviews are coming in, \u201cSupergirl\u201d is getting similar mixed reception from critics, holding a 57% Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> score at time of writing. That\u2019s a bad omen considering that the big geek culture misfires of the summer so far like \u201cMasters of the Universe\u201d and \u201cThe Mandalorian and Grogu\u201d got RT scores in the 60s from critics and 80s from audiences, but failed to expand their draw beyond their core fan bases.<\/p>\n But \u201cToy Story 5\u201d is expanding fast, becoming a four-quadrant black hole that is pulling in the vast majority of audiences between the ages of 5 and 55 and is looking at a second weekend total north of $80 million. The \u201cDespicable Me\u201d\/\u201dMinions\u201d franchise, now on its seventh film, shows no signs of losing its family appeal when it debuts next week. That means that \u201cSupergirl\u201d needs to have excellent audience reception \u2014 probably as good as \u201cSuperman\u201d \u2014 to have a chance of drawing casual audiences against such strong competition.<\/p>\n That doesn\u2019t mean \u201cSupergirl\u201d needs to perform as well as \u201cSuperman\u201d to be a success for Warner Bros. Insiders at the studio say that anything above $300 million worldwide will be seen as a win, and there is hope that the presence of Matthias Schoenarts, an actor with some overseas appeal, will help boost the film\u2019s international potential. But if it follows the same quick exit as \u201cThe Flash,\u201d it may raise some questions about how much interest there is among non-hardcore fans for a DC Universe stretched across multiple tentpole movies.<\/p>\n Milly Alcock and Matthias Schoenaerts in \u201cSupergirl\u201d (Warner Bros.\/DC Studios)<\/p>\n That question looms even larger given that the next three films DC has slated are the $40 million-budgeted horror film \u201cClayface,\u201d the \u201cSuperman\u201d sequel \u201cMan of Tomorrow,\u201d and Matt Reeves\u2019 \u201cThe Batman \u2014 Part II,\u201d a direct sequel to his 2022 film that will keep Robert Pattinson\u2019s Batman completely detached from Gunn\u2019s universe. Gunn and Safran have said that the DC Universe will not be as closely interlinked between films as the Marvel Cinematic Universe, preventing the need to watch all of the films to keep up.<\/p>\n But it will take consistency to build up the film-to-film interest that general audiences had for the MCU in the 2010s, and which will support multiple films with budgets similar to the reported $175 million that \u201cSupergirl\u201d had, even if, as insiders told TheWrap, it is devoid of the backend deals that raise the break-even point for other tentpoles like \u201cSuperman.\u201d<\/p>\n Elsewhere, Paramount will release \u201cJackass: Best and Last,\u201d the fifth and final film in the slapstick stunt series that began as a hit MTV show in 2000 and evolved into a raunchy but playful big screen spectacular.<\/p>\n After nearly a decade in dormancy, the majority of the original cast, led by Johnny Knoxville, reunited for the 2022 film \u201cJackass Forever,\u201d a film with the distinction of being one of the first movies to resume filming on the tail end of the COVID-19 pandemic. With the box office still in its recovery phase, \u201cForever\u201d became a modest hit in a year that was full of success for Paramount, grossing $80.5 million worldwide against a $10 million budget.<\/p>\n Facing a far more competitive market than \u201cForever,\u201d \u201cJackass: Best and Last\u201d might end up making less as trackers are projecting a $10-14 million opening for the film, with Paramount\u2019s projections on the low end of that range. \u201cForever\u201d opened to $23.1 million from an early February release slot.<\/p>\n But with the same $10 million production spend, it\u2019s fine for Paramount if \u201cBest and Last\u201d only draws out nostalgic millennial and Gen Xers who have been watching \u201cJackass\u201d since Knoxville was knocked out by Butterbean<\/a> in a department store. With the original cast now in their late 50s, the film serves as a retrospective for the entire history of \u201cJackass,\u201d mixing new stunts with compilations of past ones from the previous films.<\/p>\n In addition to theatrical grosses, Paramount is hoping that the new film will also bring some streaming revenue as the studio has released the entire \u201cJackass\u201d library, including the spinoff film \u201cBad Grandpa\u201d and all 24 episodes of the original MTV series, on Paramount+.<\/p>\n The post \u2018Supergirl\u2019 Could Get Buried at the Box Office by \u2018Toy Story\u2019 and \u2018Minions\u2019<\/a> appeared first on TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost a year ago, \u201cSuperman\u201d got the reboot of James Gunn and Warner Bros.\u2019 DC Universe off to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[29526,156,3991,108443,86681,409,111,139,69,211355,5530,3997,89915,63715,5942],"class_list":["post-494127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-dc-universe","tag-entertainment","tag-james-gunn","tag-matthias-schoenaerts","tag-milly-alcock","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-opening-weekend","tag-supergirl","tag-superman","tag-toy-story","tag-toy-story-5","tag-warner-bros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Milly](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a7f89c4c0ecaa20ec4cde80d5102e4cb.jpeg\"\/)
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