{"id":75844,"date":"2025-07-19T16:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T16:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/75844\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T16:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T16:50:15","slug":"superman-second-weekend-beats-i-know-what-you-did-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/75844\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Superman’ Second Weekend Beats ‘I Know What You Did’ Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cSuperman<\/a>\u201d is still atop the hierarchy of power at the box office in its second weekend, flying above new wide releases \u201cI Know What You Did Last Summer<\/a>,\u201d \u201cSmurfs<\/a>\u201d and \u201cEddington<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe DC Studios universe-rebooter earned $16.6 million on its second Friday to boost its domestic total to $194.4 million. Factoring out preview screenings from last week\u2019s opening day gross, that\u2019s a 50% drop. The Warner Bros. release has pushed ahead of fellow superhero feature \u201cThunderbolts*\u201d ($189 million) to now rank as the eighth-highest grossing North American release of the calendar year.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSuperman\u201d should fly to a $235 million domestic total through its first 10 days. Comic book adaptations have become susceptible to hard plummets, given how fans can front-load sales by flocking to opening weekend screenings. The James Gunn-directed \u201cSuperman\u201d looks to avoid that fate and resonate beyond its property\u2019s built-in groupies. As comps, Gunn\u2019s three \u201cGuardians of the Galaxy\u201d films had second-weekend drops, in order, of 55%, 55% and 47%, while fellow DC Comics adaptation \u201cThe Batman\u201d dropped 50%.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt a production cost of $225 million, \u201cSuperman\u201d will need to keep up the week-to-week holds. But DC Studios and Warner Bros. look to show that their comic book continuity has staying power. The next feature installments for the newly christened on-screen universe are \u201cSupergirl\u201d and \u201cClayface,\u201d which will open in 2026. A \u201cWonder Woman\u201d reboot is also in development.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmong the crop of new releases, Columbia Pictures and Screen Gems\u2019 horror entry \u201cI Know What You Did Last Summer\u201d has the edge for now. The \u201990s throwback earned $5.8 million across Friday and preview screenings from 3,206 venues. The Sony release is in a close race for third place, eyeing an opening north of $13 million. That\u2019s no breakout franchise revival, coming in behind modest pre-weekend projections for a debut of $15 million. The IP play is a limited risk at a measured $18 million production budget.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe new \u201cI Know What You Did\u201d adds newcomers like Madelyn Cline and Chase Sui Wonders, but also brings back original stars Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt to give it a legacy sequel play. Jennifer Kaytin Robinson directs. Reviews lean negative (though that keeps in line with the \u201990s originals) and audience pollster Cinema Score turned in a rough C+ grade. Those aren\u2019t exactly auspicious figures for staying power, though there isn\u2019t horror competition until \u201cWeapons\u201d hits theaters in three weeks.<\/p>\n

\n\tClose behind, Paramount\u2019s animated adventure \u201cSmurfs\u201d earned $4 million on its opening day. (The movie did not hold preview screenings, so it actually beat \u201cI Know What You Did\u201d on Friday.) It is currently looking at a three-day opening of $12 million in fourth place.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat\u2019d be a tough domestic result for the revival of the nearly 70-year-old Belgian comic characters, considering it cost $58 million to produce. It\u2019d also be behind the debut of the last \u201cSmurfs\u201d movie, Sony\u2019s \u201cSmurfs: The Lost Village,\u201d which disappointed in 2017 after opening to $13 million. Reviews are bad for the new \u201cSmurfs\u201d and the \u201cB+\u201d grade from Cinema Score skews a touch lower than the usual family release.<\/p>\n

\n\tRihanna leads the voice cast as Smurfette, while other stars on board include James Corden, Nick Offerman, Natasha Lyonne, Sandra Oh, Jimmy Kimmel, Octavia Spencer and John Goodman. Chris Miller directs.<\/p>\n

\n\tOpening outside the top five, A24\u2019s dread-infused COVID pandemic period piece \u201cEddington\u201d took in roughly $1.8 million from 2,111 venues across Friday and preview screenings. The film will struggle to meet its pre-weekend forecasts for a $5 million debut.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEddington,\u201d which stars Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal as two small-town mayoral candidates facing off amid masking policies and cuckolding conspiracies, is the latest feature from director Ari Aster, who delivered horror hits \u201cHereditary\u201d and \u201cMidsommar\u201d for A24. His latest has received mixed reviews since its Cannes premiere and general audiences aren\u2019t aglow at a C+ grade from Cinema Score.<\/p>\n

\n\tSecond place goes to \u201cJurassic World Rebirth,\u201d still stomping over the week\u2019s new releases. Universal\u2019s dinosaur sequel earned another $6.5 million on Friday and is projecting a 43% drop for its third weekend of release. Total domestic gross should charge past $275 million by Sunday; soon after, the film will pass \u201cSinners\u201d ($278 million) to rank as the third-highest grossing North American release of the year.<\/p>\n

\n\tWarner Bros.\u2019 release of \u201cF1\u201d looks to round out the top five after adding $2.8 million on Friday. That\u2019s just a slim 24% drop from its daily total a week ago. Now in its fourth weekend, the Apple Studios production looks to push its domestic total to $154 million through Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSuperman\u201d is still atop the hierarchy of power at the box office in its second weekend, flying above…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":75845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[48380,171,38653,45757,9180,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-75844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eddington","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-i-know-what-you-did-last-summer","11":"tag-smurfs","12":"tag-superman","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114880933184574079","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75844","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=75844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}