James Gunn's Superman Inches Towards $600M at the Box Office, Unlikely to Surpass Man of Steel's $670M

Superman has inched towards the $600 cardinal people astatine the planetary container bureau aft six weekends successful theaters and the location integer merchandise of the DC Universe kickstarter.

James Gunn’s Superman has a planetary tally of $594.5 cardinal aft earning an further $8.4 cardinal implicit the weekend.

Last week, DC Studios co-CEO James 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 has blamed this comparatively aboriginal location merchandise connected HBO Max TV bid Peacemaker Season 2, which follows connected straight from the events of Superman.

Is $600 cardinal bully capable for DC Studios and genitor institution Warner Bros.? Warner Bros. said past week that Superman is the highest-grossing Superman movie successful the U.S. with much than $331 cardinal astatine the home container office, and is besides the largest grossing superhero movie year-to-date (The Fantastic Four: First Steps doesn’t look similar it volition travel adjacent to beating Superman. More connected that below.)

Superman is the highest-grossing Superman movie successful the U.S. Zack Snyder's 2013 DCEU kickstarter Man of Steel made $291 cardinal astatine the home container office, good down Superman’s North American haul. 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. (Gunn has offered his thoughts connected wherefore Superman is doing amended successful North America than internationally.) Indeed, the disparity is bigger erstwhile you set these figures for inflation.

Does immoderate of that matter? Gunn has said rumors surrounding precisely however overmuch wealth Superman needs to marque successful bid to beryllium considered palmy are wide of the mark. In a illustration of Superman histrion David Corenswet published connected GQ, Gunn downplayed the container bureau unit connected the movie. “This is not the riskiest endeavor successful the world,” Gunn insisted.

Gunn past called the $700 cardinal fig that had been touted online arsenic the minimum Superman needs to marque during its theatrical tally to debar flop presumption arsenic “just implicit and utter nonsense,” but admitted determination is of people immoderate unit connected the movie to present for Warner Bros.

“Is determination thing riding connected it? Yeah, but it’s not arsenic large arsenic radical marque it retired to be,” Gunn said. “They perceive these numbers that the movie’s lone going to beryllium palmy if it makes 700 cardinal oregon thing and it’s conscionable implicit and utter nonsense. It doesn’t request to beryllium arsenic large of a concern arsenic radical are saying.”

Meanwhile, it’s a much troubling concern for Marvel Studios. After 4 weekends, The Fantastic Four: First Steps has grossed $468.7 cardinal ($247 cardinal home and $221.7 cardinal internationally). Will First Steps interruption the fractional a cardinal dollar barrier?

Marvel Studios is afloat steam up connected putting adjacent year’s Avengers: Doomsday together, with Spider-Man: Brand New Day besides owed retired successful 2026. While some consciousness similar cardinal dollar films, the epoch of guaranteed MCU container bureau occurrence is intelligibly over.

And, for those keeping count, Jurassic World Rebirth is present up to $828.594 cardinal globally, The Naked Gun is connected $72.8 million, and Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning is astatine $596.510 million. Weapons earned $43.4 cardinal globally successful play 2 and is present connected $148.8 million.

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