{"id":68296,"date":"2025-07-16T22:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T22:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/68296\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T22:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T22:39:10","slug":"superman-to-conquer-smurfs-i-know-what-you-did-at-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/68296\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Superman’ To Conquer ‘Smurfs’, ‘I Know What You Did’ At Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWith James Gunn\u2019s Superman<\/a> and Universal\u2019s dinosaurs<\/a> roaming Earth, counter-programming \u2014 read Paramount Animation\u2019s reboot of Smurfs<\/a> with Rihanna as Smurfette, and Sony\u2019s reboot of late-\u201990s franchise I Know What You Did Last Summer<\/a> \u2014 will have a hard time overperforming.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat said, as we\u2019ve said all summer, let\u2019s not knock any depth at the box office. It\u2019s still money for exhibition in some shape or form.<\/p>\n

\n\tJames Gunn\u2019s Superman <\/strong>looks to dip around 52% for roughly $60M<\/strong> in its second weekend. Monday and Tuesday were strong with $12.9M and $17.1M, respectively, and a running five-day total of $155M. Among Tuesdays for a superhero movie in July, Superman is sixth behind 2019\u2019s Far From Home ($39.2M opening day), 2012\u2019s The Amazing Spider-Man ($35M), last year\u2019s Deadpool & Wolverine ($25.3M), 2008\u2019s The Dark Knight ($20.8M) and 2012\u2019s The Dark Knight Rises ($17.7M). Superman keeps all the PLFs and Imax screens this weekend.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: <\/strong>The Movies That Have Made More Than $1 Billion At The Global Box Office<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Smurfs\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSMURFS, (aka THE SMURFS MOVIE), from left: Ken (voice: Nick Offerman), Smurfette (voice: Rihanna), No Name (voice: James Corden), Brainy Smurf (voice: Xolo Mariduena), 2Paramount Pictures\/Everett Collection<\/p>\n

\n\tThis brings us to Paramount Animation\u2019s Smurfs<\/strong>. The studio through Nickelodeon scooped up rights to the Smurfs<\/a> in June 2020 from the blue guys\u2019 licensors IMPS and LAFIG Belgium. Sony previously had feature rights and made three animated movies \u2014 two of \u2019em being live-action hybrid \u2014 grossing $1.1 billion between 2011 and 2017. The new deal with Nickelodeon called for a TV serie, with ViacomCBS Consumer Products handling consumer products licensing for the Smurfs in U.S., Canada, Mexico, UK, Singapore, and Malaysia.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: <\/strong>\u2018Superman\u2019 Review: James Gunn\u2019s Lively Reboot Takes The OG Superhero And His Dog On A Mission For A Kinder World<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tSony\u2019s movies posted depreciating returns at the domestic box office, and this will do no better with a single digits-to-$12M opening<\/strong> at 3,300 theaters. No Thursday night previews. Women under 25 are the it crowd in unaided and first choice, and the movie unfortunately is trailing 2023\u2019s Trolls Band Together ($30M opening) and last summer\u2019s The Garfield Movie ($24M opening). Smurfs started off great at the box office in 2011, in the pre-streaming era, and also because there hadn\u2019t been a Smurfs movie before. The pic opened to $35.6M and made $142.6M domestic and $563.8M global. Smurfs 2 opened to $17.5M domestic in 2013, and legged out to $71M stateside and $347.5M global. By 2017, the franchise had run its course, with Smurfs: The Lost Village debuting to $13.2M U.S.\/Canada en route to $45M domestic and $197.1M worldwide.<\/p>\n

\n\tSmurfs will bank on overseas again with the pics performing best in the mature European markers including Germany, France and the UK, while Latin America (notably Brazil and Mexico) typically lean into family fare. The full overseas opening, which will include Australia\u2019s early debut from last weekend, is looking like $30M<\/strong> ($40M-$42M worldwide<\/strong> if the movie hits its high-end domestic forecast). Smurfs was made for a net $58M before global P&A.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018Smurfs\u2019 Review: Rihanna And All-Star Cast Give Us The Blues In Franchise\u2019s Nostalgic Reboot Of The Cartoon Icons<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tSmurfs starts overseas rollout today in France and elsewhere and will carry on with such majors as Germany, Brazil, Mexico, the UK and China through Friday for a total 56 markets in the opening suite. Notably not going this session are Japan \u2014 owing to the launch of the anticipated Demon Slayer \u2013 Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Infinity Castle \u2014 and Korea and Italy, which go in August.<\/p>\n

\n\tNew Smurfette Rihanna<\/a> was\u00a0on the blue carpet in Brussels, where the global premiere was held in late June (the IP originated in Belgium), while gala and friends and family screenings have been held in such locales as London, Paris and Los Angeles. In Hong Kong, the Smurf & Talents Shine with You charity carnival was held from July 11-13 on the Great Lawn of West Kowloon Cultural District Art Park.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: The 25 Highest-Grossing Animated Films Of All Time At The Global Box Office<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tJennifer Love Hewitt in \u2018I Know What You Did Last Summer\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tColumbia Pictures\/Everett Collection<\/p>\n

\n\tColumbia Pictures\/Screen Gems\u2019 redo of I Know What You Did Last Summer<\/strong> comes in a summer with a lot of horror-movie corpses. Despite nostalgia being a plus at the box office, it might not be for this one with an opening between $13M-$17M <\/strong>at 3,100 off a budget of $18M. The 1997 movie, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and the late Anne Heche<\/a>, opened to $15.8M and legged out to $72.5M domestic, $125.5M worldwide. The 1998 sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer debuted to $16.5M and ended its run at $40M. The movies made $165M combined. The third movie,\u00a0I\u2019ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer\u00a0starring Brooke Nevin, went direct to home video in 2006. Jennifer Kaytin Robinson is directing from a script by Sam Lansky and Robinson off a draft by Leah McKendrick. Neal Moritz is producing. Previews start at 2 p.m. in 2,700 locations.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018I Know What You Did Last Summer\u2019 Review: Who Is This Even For?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tPrinze, Gellar and Hewitt are back with newcomers Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King, Tyriq Withers, Sarah Pidgeon and Gabbriette Bechtel. Unaided and first choice with women under 25 are the strongest, but scores are not that far from M3GAN 2.0, which underperformed to $10.2M<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tCritics have little patience for Smurfs and I Know What You Did Last Summer, with current respective Rotten Tomatoes scores of 24% Rotten and 47% Rotten.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tJoaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal in \u2018Eddington<\/a>\u2018<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA24<\/p>\n

\n\tLastly, there\u2019s A24\u2019s Ari Aster-directed sociopolitical western comedy Eddington<\/strong>, which is looking at low single digits under $5M<\/strong> at 2,111 theaters after a Cannes World premiere where reviews registered at 66% fresh (read Deadline\u2019s review here<\/a>). Pedro Pascal plays a mayor and Joaquin Phoenix a sheriff who are at each other\u2019s necks in this pic, which takes place during the pandemic, complete with divisive politics. Austin Butler and Emma Stone are along for the ride. The movie cost a reported $25M before P&A thanks to New Mexico state tax credits and no VFX. Aster\u2019s previous feature Beau Is Afraid, also for A24, in its wide break did $1.48M at 2,125 (in Weekend 3, but $2.66M at 965 theaters in Weekend 2). Guys are the draw, and Wes Anderson\u2019s The Phoenician Scheme is the prayed-for comp, that pic doing $6.2M in its second weekend break at 1,678 sites.<\/p>\n

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