Supergirl Fails to Take Flight With $68 Million Box Office Debut

Supergirl suffered a clang landing successful theaters with a $68 cardinal opening play astatine the planetary container office.

The caller DCU movie scooped up conscionable $38 cardinal domestically and astir $30 cardinal internationally. It's a divided that puts the Milly Alcock superhero movie beneath expectations, which had Warner Bros. and DC Studios hoping to propulsion successful $50 cardinal crossed 3,600 North American theaters successful its archetypal weekend.

Those aboriginal projections already acceptable a debased barroom for the Supergirl movie contempt its presumption arsenic a highly anticipated follow-up to 2025's Superman. Adding insult to wounded is the film's budget, which, according to Deadline, is betwixt $170 cardinal and $186 million, earlier selling costs. A disappointing commencement means the task faces a agelong roadworthy earlier it tin adjacent deliberation astir breaking adjacent arsenic the DCU works done what seems to beryllium its archetypal letdown successful theaters.

Poor show astatine the container bureau could beryllium a effect of the film's reception. Critics and fans alike aren't rather definite however to consciousness astir Supergirl, with reappraisal aggregator Rotten Tomatoes showing a 56% people for the second portion the erstwhile carries a higher standing of 77%. Most opening play reactions accidental Alcock's Kara Zor-El and the movie's usage of applicable effects are worthy of praise, portion others struggled to link with the wide story. Hideo Kojima, astatine least, seemed to similar it.

IGN gave Supergirl a 6/10 reappraisal up of its June 26 premiere. We said, "Supergirl borrows from the best, but Milly Alcock’s large instrumentality connected Kara Zor-El gets mislaid successful the spare parts from different movies utilized to assemble her story."

The breakdown landed the Kryptonian icon successful the fig 2 spot astatine the container office, falling successful 2nd to Disney's Toy Story 5. The long-running Pixar franchise maintained its apical spot with a $70 cardinal home haul successful its 2nd weekend. That's a 56% driblet from its mid-June premiere, with its home and worldwide totals present sitting astatine $297.2 cardinal and $585 million, respectively.

Other home highlights from the play see yet different beardown play for Obsession, which came comfortably successful 3rd with $9.8 cardinal aft much than a period and a fractional successful theaters, bringing its worldwide full to an unbelievable $370.109 million. Jackass: Best and Last, which besides released June 26, accumulated $8.4 cardinal crossed its 2,885 North American theaters and landed successful fourth. Disclosure Day came successful 5th with $8.1 cardinal aft its 3rd weekend.

For much connected Supergirl, you tin work our exploration of the statement astatine the bosom of the film. You tin besides spot however manager Craig Gillespie said the opus utilized successful its last enactment came together.

Michael Cripe is simply a freelance writer with IGN. He's champion known for his enactment astatine sites similar The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be definite to springiness him a travel connected Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).