It’s Official: Superman Is the First Superhero Movie of 2025 to Fly Past $600M at the Global Box Office, While The Fantastic Four: First Steps Inches Towards $500M

Superman has officially flown past the $600 cardinal people astatine the planetary container office, making it the archetypal superhero movie of 2025 to bash so.

James Gunn’s DC Universe kickstarter is present connected $604.5 cardinal globally, with astir of that wealth made successful North American theaters (Gunn has offered his thoughts connected wherefore Superman is doing amended domestically than internationally).

Earlier this month, Gunn made the astonishment announcement that Superman would spot its integer merchandise connected Friday, August 15 — conscionable implicit a period aft the movie launched successful theaters. Gunn blamed this comparatively aboriginal location merchandise connected HBO Max TV bid Peacemaker Season 2, which follows connected straight from the events of Superman.

But Superman remains disposable to ticker successful theaters, and it's determination that the movie has acceptable a fig of records. For example, Superman is the highest-grossing Superman movie successful the U.S. ever, with $347 million. Zack Snyder's 2013 DCEU kickstarter Man of Steel made $291 cardinal astatine the home container office. But Man of Steel, starring Henry Cavill arsenic Superman, did overmuch amended internationally, bringing successful $379.1 cardinal for a planetary full of $670.1 cardinal — a fig Superman astir surely won’t beat.

Globally, Superman is comfortably up of each different superhero films released successful 2025 truthful far, with its closest competitor, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, lagging down by implicit $100 million. Indeed, with some the MCU and the DCU not readying immoderate different superhero films for 2025, Superman looks acceptable to extremity the twelvemonth arsenic the wide winner.

After play five, First Steps is present connected $257.3 cardinal domestically and $232.8 cardinal internationally, for a planetary full of $490.1 million. The film’s commercialized show is being seen arsenic thing of a disappointment, contempt bringing successful much wealth already than Captain America: Brave New World and Thunderbolts. But Marvel Studios has 2 large hitters coming up successful 2026: Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and Avengers: Doomsday, which First Steps leads into.

Meanwhile, Brad Pitt’s F1 is present connected $603.4 million, marking a important theatrical occurrence for Apple. Zach Cregger’s slayer horror-thriller Weapons is present up to $115.9 cardinal successful North American theaters aft 3 weekends, with a planetary haul of $199.4 million. Weapons’ commercialized occurrence is good deserved; IGN’s Weapons reappraisal returned a 9/10: “Writer-director Zach Cregger blends unbearable hostility and acheronian wit erstwhile much successful Weapons, a fearfulness blockbuster that’s little of a blunt-force barbarian and much of a sharp-shooting assassin.”

It’s worthy noting that Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters released successful theaters this play aft its immense motorboat connected the streaming service, and whitethorn good beryllium the highest-grossing movie implicit the past fewer days adjacent up of Weapons. Netflix does not study container bureau numbers, but based connected KPop Demon Hunters' wide merchandise globally and societal media reports of sold-out screenings, Netflix nary uncertainty has a uncommon theatrical deed connected its hands.

Wesley is Director, News astatine IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].