{"id":146112,"date":"2025-08-14T21:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T21:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/146112\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T21:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T21:46:11","slug":"james-gunn-defends-supermans-digital-release-amid-box-office-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/146112\/","title":{"rendered":"James Gunn Defends Superman&#8217;s Digital Release Amid Box Office Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/james-gunn\/\" id=\"auto-tag_james-gunn\" data-tag=\"james-gunn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Gunn<\/a> told <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/superman-2025-movie-digital-early-release-peacemaker-explained-james-gunn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ScreenRant <\/a>that <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/reviews\/superman-review-james-gunn-david-corenswet-1236444126\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cSuperman\u201d<\/a> is arriving early on digital platforms such as Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Fandango at Home and more so that viewers are able to watch the summer blockbuster ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/reviews\/superman-review-james-gunn-david-corenswet-1236444126\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cPeacemaker\u201d Season 2<\/a> launching Aug. 21 on HBO Max. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/superman\/\" id=\"auto-tag_superman\" data-tag=\"superman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Superman<\/a>\u201d effectively launched Gunn\u2019s new DC Universe. \u201cPeacemaker\u201d is the next title in the universe, with Gunn having said already in several interviews that the events of \u201cSuperman\u201d directly play into Season 2 of the John Cena-led comic book series. Characters introduced in \u201cSuperman,\u201d including Hawkgirl (Isabela Merced) and Guy Gardner (Nathan Fillion), even make appearances in \u201cPeacemaker\u201d Season 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cSuperman\u201d is arriving on PVOD digital platforms Friday, Aug. 15, more or less a month after it opened in theaters July 11 from Warner Bros. and DC Studios. Many comic book movie fans expressed disappointment at Warner Bros. for bringing \u201cSuperman\u201d to digital so soon after its theatrical opening since the movie has proven to be a box office smash hit with $334 million and counting domestically. The film is nearing $600 million globally as well. \u201cSuperman\u201d has seen solid weekend holds at the box office, earning a strong $7 million in its fifth and most recent outing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWhen ScreenRant\u2019s Liam Crowley told Gunn that it was heartbreaking to see \u201cSuperman\u201d already \u201cgoing to digital because I love a good, long theatrical campaign,\u201d Gunn agreed by saying, \u201cMe too.\u201d The writer-director then explained the divisive decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cWell, it\u2019s very complicated, but the truth is it is because of \u2018Peacemaker,&#8217;\u201d Gunn said. \u201cI originally thought \u2018Peacemaker\u2019 was going to be coming out next month. There was a lot of things that are beyond our control, so that \u2018Peacemaker\u2019 is coming out now, and, at the end of the day, I wanted everyone to be able to see \u2018Superman\u2019 that wanted to, even those people who couldn\u2019t get to a theater before \u2018Peacemaker.\u2019 And that\u2019s really the reason for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cSuperman\u201d will continue to play in theaters even as it launches on digital platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Gunn told ScreenRant that \u201cSuperman\u201d is arriving early on digital platforms such as Amazon Prime Video, Apple&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":62987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,956,53,9180,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-146112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-james-gunn","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-superman","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}