Superman’s box office speech is a staging of what was expected

By Drew Dietsch | Published 19 seconds ago

I used to work for Fandom, the company that has ruined the wikis on the web. While I was there as an entertainment editor, I was assigned the weekly box office report. I took this seriously because not only wanted my reports to be based solely on my own prejudices. I investigated and learned everything I could about the box office numbers, both historically and in the contemporary landscape.

So I feel exclusively qualified to say that the negative analysis I am seeing by pressing SupermanThe opening weekend of the opening is not only stupid, it is so expected and surprising of what it could even have anticipated.

Superman is a success, so far

Let’s get one thing out of the way: Superman It is a blockbuster while I write this. He had a opening weekend number (including Thursday projections) of $ 122 million, which already made it the twelfth film with the greatest collection of the year at this time. Anyone who says that this is not a successful opening weekend is as intelligent as a Pasnacle scraped the back of a whale.

Now, there is certainly a discussion when it comes to Superman You will keep enough interest in the coming weeks to get more necessary dollars. With strong mouth and a week without true competition, Superman It is definitely in a position to do it well. Assuming a 50% drop in its second weekend (and Superman I could amaze with a stronger retention), that would still add $ 60 million to SupermanBank account. That will put it in an undeniable rise that will pass Marvel’s main theater outings for 2025 at this time, Good heavens and Captain America: Brave New World.

Of course, Marvel counterprogrammed Superman both financially and culturally when liberating Fantastic four: first steps Only two weeks after James Gunn’s release film for the DC universe. Without a doubt that will be based on the majority of Supermanaudience, but there is no way Superman It will not end up doing more at the box office than the last two efforts of MCU. So, if I tried to swell the success of those films, you can’t duplicate and call Superman A failure.

But let’s be honest, they are not Marvel fans trying to turn Superman In a fault.

Snyder sociopats

Most of the lie SupermanThe “failure” comes from a contingent who does not want to see that this film is successful, either in dollars or cultural cache. There is a concentrated effort of fans of Zack Snyder DC films to paint Superman As a loser because they have turned the DC films of that director into all their personalities.

Suddenly they are experts at the international box office who conveniently ignore trends at the international box office in the last five years to say that Superman It is a failure. They make shameful bar graphics using the inflation calculator without adding the context of decreases in recreational spending towards films in general. They want to pretend that the socioeconomic and entertainment panorama of 2025 is exactly as 2013 when Steel man released. Spoiler: It is not at all.

These are not serious people. They are ideologues who have attached their egos to a series of bad movies (including the worst DC movie), and will say and do anything to satisfy those egos. Although Zack Snyder himself has praised James Gunn and his new version SupermanThese dimwits act as fair soldiers in a holy war that must be fought on each front. Fans are rarely interested in throwing the truth and this situation is no different.

As someone who has done the box office analysis to make a living, there is nothing remotely intelligent that comes out of these perspectives. Superman It is doing well and it is likely to continue working well because it is a good movie that The public is enjoying. Instead of trying to manipulate the data and opinion to masturbate, why not all those Snyder simps are going to shoot Jimmy Olsen in the head to feel better?