{"id":78633,"date":"2025-07-20T18:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T18:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/78633\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T18:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T18:21:10","slug":"superman-no-1-again-at-box-office-i-know-what-you-did-last-summer-smurfs-disappoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/78633\/","title":{"rendered":"Superman No. 1 Again at Box Office, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Smurfs Disappoint"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cSuperman<\/a>\u201d remains up, up and away at the box office. The superhero reboot retained its crown as three new releases, \u201cSmurfs<\/a>,\u201d \u201cI Know What You Did Last Summer<\/a>\u201d and Ari Aster\u2019s \u201cEddington,\u201d failed to pack a punch in theaters.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn its second weekend of release, \u201cSuperman\u201d collected $57.3 million from 4,774 venues \u2014 a standard 54% decline from its $125 million debut. After strong weekday holds, the Warner Bros. comic book adventure has earned $236 million domestically and $406 million globally. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cA 54% second weekend drop is indicative of a marketplace that\u2019s embracing the film,\u201d says senior Comscore analyst Paul Dergarabedian. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe studio needs the well-reviewed \u201cSuperman\u201d to keep flying high during the competitive summer movie season, especially since there are just days to go until Disney\u2019s Marvel comic cook adventure \u201cThe Fantastic Four: First Steps\u201d touches down on the big screen. Beyond earning back the $225 million production budget, \u201cSuperman\u201d is intended to launch a new phase of superhero movies for the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned DC Studios. Two interconnected spinoffs, \u201cSupergirl\u201d and \u201cClayface,\u201d will launch in 2026 with a new \u201cWonder Woman\u201d movie in the works.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmong newcomers, Sony\u2019s \u201cI Know What You Did Last Summer\u201d had the strongest start at No. 3 with $13 million from 3,206 theaters. The film added $11.6 million overseas from 58 markets, bringing its worldwide total to $24.6 million. Those soft ticket sales suggest that nostalgia isn\u2019t nearly as potent as Sony might have hoped when greenlighting the slasher sequel and reuniting the original 1998 film\u2019s stars, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt. Although \u201cI Know What You Did Last Summer\u201d opened behind projections, the film cost a modest $18 million to produce and won\u2019t take a ton of coinage to justify its budget. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn terms of big screen longevity, though, it doesn\u2019t help that neither critics (38% on Rotten Tomatoes) nor audiences (\u201cC+\u201d grade on CinemaScore) liked the film, a fact that didn\u2019t seem to bother the director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson. She humorously tweeted the word \u201ccamp\u201d over a screenshot of the movie\u2019s bleak Rotten Tomatoes score<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tParamount\u2019s \u201cSmurfs\u201d opened in fourth place with $11 million from 3,504 venues, a disappointing result for the $58 million-budgeted musical. The animated adventure has earned $25 million at the international box office to date for a global tally of $36 million. Though reviews usually don\u2019t have too much bearing on the turnout for family films, \u201cSmurfs\u201d has the lowest Rotten Tomatoes score (a 21% average) in the entire box office top 10. Moviegoers were kinder, awarding the film a decent \u201cB+\u201d grade on CinemaScore exit polls. Although this kind of reception might not spark a new cinematic universe, the \u201cSmurfs\u201d big screen return will likely be a big driver of consumer products for the studio. Rihanna leads the voice cast of \u201cSmurfs\u201d as Smurfette alongside the sprawling ensemble of James Corden,\u00a0Nick Offerman,\u00a0Natasha Lyonne,\u00a0Sandra Oh,\u00a0Jimmy Kimmel,\u00a0Octavia Spencer and\u00a0John Goodman.<\/p>\n

\n\tElsewhere at the box office, A24\u2019s Western satire \u201cEddington\u201d wobbled to the No. 7 spot with $4.2 million from 2,111 venues in its debut. Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal star in the polarizing film, set in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic, as a sheriff and mayor who sparks a powder keg in their small town. Aster has scored big with pure horror, such as 2019\u2019s \u201cMidsommar\u201d ($48 million) and 2018\u2019s \u201cHereditary\u201d ($87 million), but the filmmaker has been less commercially consistent when he\u2019s deviated to other genres like 2023\u2019s surrealist comedy \u201cBeau Is Afraid\u201d ($12 million). Though \u201cEddington\u201d received a poor \u201cC+\u201d grade on CinemaScore, that doesn\u2019t necessarily spell doom for the film\u2019s theatrical run. \u201cHereditary\u201d and \u201cMidsommar\u201d were similarly received (with a \u201cD+\u201d and \u201cC+\u201d grade, respectively) and managed to break out at the box office.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAri Aster\u2019s previous movies were not crowd-pleasers either,\u201d says David A. Gross, who runs the FranchiseRe movie consulting firm. However, he adds that \u201cWesterns generally start slowly and go on long runs after they open, but we don\u2019t see that happening here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tUniversal\u2019s \u201cJurassic World Rebirth\u201d remained in second place with $23 million from 3,854 venues, a 42% drop from the prior frame. After three weekends of release, the dinosaur reboot has earned $276 million domestically and $647 million globally. Although those are strong returns \u2014 it\u2019s one of only three Hollywood films to surpass the $600 million mark in 2025 \u2014 the latest \u201cJurassic\u201d has ways to go to reach the heights of the prior sequel trilogy, all of which grossed $1 billion globally.<\/p>\n

\n\tRounding out the top five is Apple\u2019s \u201cF1: The Movie\u201d with $9.6 million from 3,094 theaters in its fourth lap around the track. That\u2019s a 26% decline from the previous weekend, bringing ticket sales to $153.6 million domestically and $460.8 million worldwide. Though the film, which stars Brad Pitt and is being distributed by Warner Bros., cost a massive $250 million price tag and might not turn a theatrical profit, those ticket sales are sizable for an original, adult-skewing property. It\u2019s by far\u00a0Apple\u2019s highest-grossing movie to date<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tOverall box office returns are currently 15% ahead of the same point in 2024 though about 24% behind 2019, the last pre-pandemic year, according to Comscore. After \u201cFantastic Four\u201d closes out the month of July, the summer season will continue with August releases like \u201cThe Naked Gun,\u201d \u201cFreakier Friday\u201d and Zach Cregger\u2019s thriller \u201cWeapons.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis weekend is a breather between the two giant superhero openings,\u201d says Gross. \u201cThe current lineup in theaters is strong, with a broad selection of big titles including superheroes, action, monsters, horror and animation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNow Hollywood just needs audiences to continue showing up at theaters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSuperman\u201d remains up, up and away at the box office. The superhero reboot retained its crown as three…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":78634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,38653,45757,9180,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-78633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-i-know-what-you-did-last-summer","10":"tag-smurfs","11":"tag-superman","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114886953354696161","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78633","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=78633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}