How might we describe the rise of the new Superman movie’s profits? Faster than a speeding bullet.
The film remained safely in first at the box office this weekend by earning $57.2 million in North America. That’s double its second-place film (also a holdover), Jurassic World Rebirth. In total, the symbol of justice has rescued $235 million domestically and $406.8 million around the globe. So far, that number ranks it as the third-best performing Superman movie ever, though it likely won’t be long before it overtakes Man of Steel for second place (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice maintains a healthy first).
As mentioned before, Jurassic World Rebirth took second place, squashing two box office newcomers to maintain its spot. It dug up $23.4 million in the United States. That brings its stateside tally to $276.2 million, and its worldwide cume to $647.9 million. Still, that’s a relatively smaller dino compared to the rest of the franchise; That worldwide number places the movie in fifth place for the Jurassic films, roughly $300 million behind the global earnings of the original Jurassic Park.
Speaking of bringing life to the bones of an old story, I Know What You Did Last Summer, a reboot of an eponymous 1997 slasher horror film, released this weekend. It struck $13 million in its opening weekend. Not exactly a killing, but it was good enough for third place.
Smurfs, meanwhile, smurfed up $11 million in its debut weekend. That earns the blue creatures fourth place at the box office, but I’m not sure it’ll be enough to pay the film’s stacked cast.
Zooming across the finish line in fifth this weekend was F1® The Movie, a title whose four weeks in the top five are the only reason I know how to type the registered trademark symbol at all. It filled up with another $9.6 million this weekend. That brings its worldwide total to $460.8 million; in this economy, that’s almost enough for a whole tank of gas!
Looking down the list, Ari Aster’s dark satire film set in the time of COVID, Eddington, stopped the spread by keeping six spots between itself and the top of the box office. It took seventh place and $4.3 million. Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight earned $238,000 and 15th place.
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