Superman HBO Max Release Date Confirmed After $615 Million at the Global Box Office

Superman launches connected HBO Max connected September 19, Warner Bros. has announced. The DC Universe kickstarter arrives connected the streamer conscionable implicit 2 months aft it deed theaters successful July and with $615 cardinal astatine the planetary container bureau nether its belt.

Superman volition debut connected HBO linear connected Saturday, September 20 astatine 8pm ET. A mentation of Superman with American Sign Language (ASL) volition besides watercourse exclusively connected HBO Max, interpreted by Deaf ASL Interpreter Giovanni Maucere and directed by Leila Hanaumi (Barbie with ASL, The Last of Us with ASL).

Expect to spot an in-app Superman takeover connected HBO Max, which transforms the homepage and adds features you tin interact with. These see a Daily Planet Homepage takeover with refreshed art, style, and specially designed contented rails, and a The Fortress of Solitude leafage with themed curations. There are adjacent hidden portals passim the homepage that transport users to Lex Luthor’s Pocket Prison.

Superman hits HBO Max aft what appears to person been a palmy tally successful theaters. It made conscionable implicit $615 cardinal theatrically, making it the archetypal and apt lone superhero movie of 2025 to walk $600 million. Most of that wealth was made successful North American theaters (Gunn has offered his thoughts connected wherefore Superman is doing amended domestically than internationally).

Last month, DC Studios co-chief 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 blamed this comparatively aboriginal location merchandise connected HBO Max TV bid Peacemaker Season 2, which follows connected straight from the events of Superman and serves arsenic a prequel to Gunn’s Superman follow-up, Man of Tomorrow.

Last week, Gunn revealed the archetypal details connected Man of Tomorrow. In erstwhile interviews, Gunn had teased his adjacent writer / manager movie wasn’t going to beryllium a consecutive up Superman sequel. Man of Tomorrow volition alternatively spot Superman and Lex Luthor squad up to look a greater threat, with Gunn revealing: “it’s arsenic overmuch a Lex movie arsenic it is simply a Superman movie.”

Superman hits HBO Max connected September 19, 2025.

Shooting begins successful April 2026 up of the film’s planned July 9, 2027 merchandise day — conscionable 2 years aft Superman came out. "It's gonna beryllium retired successful 2 years, July 9, 2027, which is simply a comparatively abbreviated clip betwixt sequels, due to the fact that we knew instantly wherever we were going," Gunn explained.

"And it is simply a communicative astir Lex Luthor and Superman having to enactment together, to a definite degree, against a much, overmuch bigger threat. And it's much analyzable than that. It's arsenic overmuch a Lex movie arsenic it is simply a Superman movie. I subordinate to the quality of Lex Luthor, sadly."

You tin cheque retired IGN’s ain speculation successful our feature, Man of Tomorrow: What Do We Know About the Plot and Villain of James Gunn's Superman Sequel?

2026 volition spot Supergirl, Lanterns, and Clayface each travel retired arsenic portion of the continuing DCU, good earlier Man of Tomorrow a twelvemonth later.

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