David Korenswet's stars are Superman in Warner Bros. '”Superman.”
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It is not a bird or a plane that shot in theaters on Thursday night, it was Warner Bros. ' “Superman.”
The first film in the new era of DC films with James Gunn and Peter Safran caught $ 22.5 million of preview presentations.
It is the third best performance on Thursday for a superhero movie under the DC banner, just behind “The Dark Knight Rises”, which obtained $ 30.6 million in 2012, and “Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice”, which set $ 27.7 million in its first Thursday in 2016, according to Comscore data.
They are also the best preview numbers for a Superman movie. “Superman: Man of Steel” obtained only $ 9 million in preview tickets on Thursday night in 2013.
“'With great power, a great responsibility' can be Spider-Man's mantra, but Peter Safran and James Gunn have a similar position and, therefore, bets are incredibly high so that the new 'Superman' movie delivers superhero-style box office numbers about what will be a weekend of highly scrutinized summer movies,” said Paul Dergarabedian, a senior analyst.
It is expected that “Superman” will contain between $ 130 million and $ 140 million at the box office during its three -day full opening weekend. “Man of Steel” generated $ 116 million during his first weekend more than a decade ago.
That range is also on par with the launch of 2022 of “The Batman” by Matt Reeves, which received $ 134 million. Only three DC films have worked better during their first three days in theaters: “Batman V. Superman” opened to $ 166 million, “The Dark Knight Rises” captured $ 160 million and “The Dark Knight” brought $ 158.4 million.
“Premium screens will undoubtedly be a great attraction for the hopeful superhero show of James Gunn, and if families are presenting the youngest generation of today's children to Superman, we will look towards the box office that the power of permanence is maintained during the rest of the summer,” said Shawn Robbins, director of analytics in Fandango and founder of the theory of the box of the box.
Rachel Brosnahan and David Korenswet Estrella as Lois Lane and Superman in Warner Bros. '”Superman.”
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That would be a good sign for the new era of DC under Gunn and Safran.
The couple assumed the position of co-channels of the DC Comics and Television Unit of Warner Bros. Discovery in late 2022. Since taking the reins of DC Studios, they have developed a 10-year plan to revitalize their franchises on television and the film, including new turns in Superman and Batman.
Both executives have experience with the genre of superheroes and have brought heroes of Disney's Marvel Cinematic Universe and DC Universe for large and small screens, including “Guardians of the Galaxy”, “The Suicide Squad” and “Pacifier”.
While several television projects have already been presented at the WBD HBO Max Transmission Service, “Superman” is the first theatrical project that was actually carried out by Gunn and Safran.
Critics seem to be aboard the restart, since the film currently has an 83% “fresh” rating of more than 300 criticism about Rotten Tomatoes.
“It is the beginning of a new era for DC characters and the return of thematically hopeful stories within that canvas,” Robbins said. “Superman is the perfect archetype to mark the beginning of this restart despite the fact that each character's iteration has faced winds against to meet the demand of fans, while at the same time court the wider public. This film is no different in that sense, but certainly represents a tonal change of the melancholic era of DC films during the previous decade.”
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