{"id":204038,"date":"2025-10-05T23:04:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T23:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/204038\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T23:04:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T23:04:23","slug":"superman-draws-13-million-global-viewers-in-hbo-max-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/204038\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Superman&#8217; Draws 13 Million Global Viewers In HBO Max Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDC Studios\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/superman\/\" id=\"auto-tag_superman\" data-tag=\"superman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Superman<\/a> has racked up 13 million global viewers since premiering on <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/hbo-max\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hbo-max\" data-tag=\"hbo-max\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HBO Max<\/a> on September 19. The streamer says that marks the largest 10-day audience for a pay-one film since December 2023, when Barbie played. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDuring the James Gunn film\u2019s premiere week on HBO Max, other Superman titles saw a corresponding spike in global viewership. For the period measured between September 8-14 and September 15-21,  Super\/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story grew 670%, Superman: The Movie 155%, Superman Returns 120% and Man of Steel 40%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGunn\u2019s Superman landed on HBO Max after a 70-day theatrical window. The tentpole starring David Corenswet, Nicholas Hoult and Rachel Brosnahan had a 35-day theatrical window to Premium VOD as Gunn wanted the movie made available in homes in time for the premiere of Season 2 of HBO Max\u2019s Peacemaker. Last weekend\u2019s sixth episode of Season 2 served as a bridge to the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/09\/dc-studios-superman-movie-man-of-tomorrow-summer-2027-1236505478\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1236505478\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Superman: Man of Tomorrow<\/a>, which Gunn will shoot next spring in time for a July 9, 2027 release date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSuperman opened to $125M domestic, $220M global. The film ended its theatrical run at $354.1M stateside and $615.6M worldwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGunn recently told Howard Stern that Superman: Man of Tomorrow is \u201ca story about Lex Luthor and Superman having to work together to a certain degree against a much, much bigger threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe added, \u201cIt\u2019s as much a Lex movie as it is a Superman movie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe final episode of Peacemaker Season 2 begins streaming October 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DC Studios\u2019 Superman has racked up 13 million global viewers since premiering on HBO Max on September 19.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,1010,206,209],"class_list":["post-204038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-hbo-max","tag-movies","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}