{"id":501005,"date":"2026-06-29T11:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T11:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/501005\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T11:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T11:49:08","slug":"supergirl-stumbles-to-68-million-box-office-opening-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/501005\/","title":{"rendered":"Supergirl Stumbles To $68 Million Box Office Opening Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it *shudders* DC Studios’ first flop? That’d be a ‘no’, another ‘no’, and unfortunately a ‘quite possibly’. Yes, this past weekend saw Cruella<\/a> and I, Tonya<\/a> director Craig Gillespie’s Supergirl<\/a>, starring the ace Milly Alcock, swoop into multiplexes the world over. But as Toy Story 5<\/a> continues to fly at the box office and Obsession<\/a> remains everybody’s latest obsession, Superman’s cousin Kara Zor-El struggled to break through in its opening weekend, landing just $68 million worldwide against a reported $170 million budget.<\/p>\n

To put Supergirl’s disappointing box office open into some sort of context, Sony’s widely derided SPUMC offering Morbius<\/a> managed $84 million worldwide in its own opening weekend, while the old DCEU’s last non-sequel solo superhero effort, The Flash<\/a>, took $131 million despite mixed reviews. DC Studios’ own first film, last year’s Superman<\/a>, took off to the tune of $217 million \u2014 albeit with a much more cinematically well-established hero at its centre. As for Supergirl then, which has been met with widespread enthusiasm about Milly Alcock’s take on Kara Zor-El but lukewarm responses from critics to Gillespie’s movie itself, a sub-$100 million open \u2014 with only $38 million being made domestically \u2014 is more than a tad concerning. Especially if, as Variety<\/a> reports, the movie realistically needs to make $300 million to break even at the box office.<\/p>\n

Still, despite a less-than-super opening weekend, Supergirl’s financial success \u2014 or lack thereof \u2014 isn’t keeping DC Studios’ co-CEO Peter Safran up at night. In an interview with The New York Times<\/a>, Safran downplayed the potential repercussions of the DCU’s sophomore feature flopping. \u201cWhile \u2018Supergirl\u2019 didn\u2019t meet our box office expectations, it\u2019s just one component of a broader, long-term strategy at DC Studios that we remain confident in,\u201d\u00a0said Safran. Said long-term strategy includes this October’s Clayface<\/a>, next summer’s Superman sequel Man Of Tomorrow<\/a>, and Matt Reeves’ very long awaited The Batman Part II<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, Supergirl hasn’t been quite the blockbuster hit DC Studios might’ve anticipated, likely due to a multitude of factors \u2014 from ongoing superhero fatigue, to the competition it faced against the likes of Toy Story and Obsession, to a very vocal minority’s pre-meditated backlash to the existence of a woman-fronted superhero movie (this is, after all, a very different landscape culturally and cinematically to that which saw Wonder Woman<\/a> and Captain Marvel<\/a> fly.) But here’s the bright side. The film exists. Milly Alcock has a major part to play in Man Of Tomorrow. And the DCU is still only just getting started. No cause for panic then \u2014 at least not just yet, anyway….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it *shudders* DC Studios’ first flop? That’d be a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-501005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501005","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=501005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}