{"id":73361,"date":"2025-07-18T18:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T18:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/73361\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T18:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T18:48:10","slug":"superman-passes-300m-globally-nears-200m-domestically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/73361\/","title":{"rendered":"Superman Passes $300M Globally, Nears $200M Domestically"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJames Gunn<\/a>\u2018s Superman<\/a> leapt past the $300 million mark at the worldwide box office<\/a> on Thursday as it heads into its second weekend. That number includes an impressive domestic haul of $177.7 million after enjoying strong midweek business.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe DC Studios and Warner Bros. superhero pic will have no trouble staying atop the chart in its sophomore outing and is trouncing new offerings I Know What You Did Last Summer and Smurfs. Both films are reboots, and are projected to open to less than $13 million domestically.<\/p>\n

\n\tFrom Columbia and Screen Gems, the R-rated horror pic I Know What You Did Last Summer earned $2.2 million in Thursday previews. While Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. reprise their roles from the original films, the new installment otherwise introduces a host of newcomers to the series, including Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King, Tyriq Withers, Sarah Pidgeon and Gabbriette Bechtel.<\/p>\n

\n\tSet three decades after the 1997 original film of the same name, the storyline<\/a> \u2014 much as the first movie \u2014 follows a group of friends who try to cover up an accidental death for which they were responsible. Cut to a year later, when one of them receives a note containing the ominous titular message. Not long after, a killer armed with a metal hook and clad in a fisherman\u2019s slicker and hat begins gruesomely killing them one by one. Soon, they turn to two survivors of the legendary Southport Massacre of 1997, played by Hewitt and Prinze.<\/p>\n

\n\tCritics haven\u2019t exactly embraced the reboot<\/a>, which currently has a 33 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The audience score is a somewhat better 68 percent, but I Know What You Did Last Summer could be the last victim of horror fatigue at the box office (so far, Superman is evading the same fatigue that has plagued the superhero genre.)<\/p>\n

\n\tSmurfs, which Paramount picked up from Sony, didn\u2019t hold Thursday previews and officially opens everywhere Friday. The animated family film likewise hasn\u2019t impressed reviewers,<\/a> despite an all-star voice cast that includes Rihanna in her first turn as a Smurf. The voice cast also includes Nick Offerman, Natasha Lyonne, Sandra Oh, Alex Winter, Billie Lourd, Maya Erskine, John Goodman, Kurt Russell and Jimmy Kimmel, among others. The critics\u2019 score on Rotten Tomatoes is presently at 20 percent (there\u2019s no audience score yet).<\/p>\n

\n\tDirected by Chris Miller, Smurfs is the first installment in the theatrical franchise in eight years. Thanks to Rihanna, who plays Smurfette, the movie is filled with dance and song. The story follows Smurfette leading a mission to save their leader that takes them into the real world, including Paris, Munich and the Australian Outback, where the Smurfs meet up with small, feathered, Minion-like creatures named Snooterpoots. Their leader is voiced by Lyonne.<\/p>\n

\n\tAll eyes, however, will be on Superman to see how well it holds up in its second weekend. It certainly has every chance of passing up the entire lifetime run of Marvel\u2019s Thunderbolts*, which topped out at $383 million globally earlier this year. Marvel\u2019s other 2025 entry, Captain America: Brave New World, didn\u2019t fare much better in grossing a meek $415 million worldwide.<\/p>\n

\n\tMarvel hopes to turn its fortunes around when Fantastic Four: First Steps hits theaters a week from now on July 25. That gives Superman one week to itself before facing direct competition. Both tentpoles are attempting to relaunch their respective franchises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Gunn\u2018s Superman leapt past the $300 million mark at the worldwide box office on Thursday as it…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":73362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[207,171,956,53,9180,14020,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-73361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-box-office","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-james-gunn","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-superman","13":"tag-the-fantastic-four-first-steps","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114875734747305735","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73361","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=73361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}