🎟️ Box Office Breakdown: Warner Bros. wins the weekend… and the year so far…

The Dailies

The Dailies reports on the latest box office news from this week.

Superman (Warner Bros.)

1. 🦸‍♂️ Superman: (Wk 2) $57.25M domestic weekend (-54%), $235M domestic total, $407M global. James Gunn's reboot is showing serious staying power with a significantly better hold than 'Man of Steel' in 2013 (-65%). Its domestic-heavy split ($235M vs. $171M international) may cap its global ceiling compared to previous DC hits.
2. 🦕 Jurassic World Rebirth: (Wk 3) $23.4M domestic weekend (-42%), $276.2M domestic total, $647M global. Celebrates crossing $600M worldwide with the best third-weekend hold in franchise history.
3. 🔪 I Know What You Did Last Summer: 🆕 $13M domestic opening, $24.6M global debut. Despite bringing back Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr., this marks the lowest opening in the franchise’s history.
4. 🔵 Smurfs: 🆕 $11M domestic opening, $36M global debut. Paramount's revival featuring Rihanna couldn't recapture the magic of the 2011’s original ($35.6M opening). A franchise-low B+ CinemaScore suggests audiences aren't feeling very Smurfy about this one.
5. 🏎️ F1: (Wk 4) $9.6M domestic weekend (-26%), $153.6M domestic total, $460.8M global. Continues cruising with minimal drops.
6. 🐉 How to Train Your Dragon: (Wk 6) $5.35M domestic weekend (-32%), $250.7M domestic total, $285M global.
7. 🤠 Eddington: 🆕 $4.26M opening. Ari Aster's Western starring Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal splits audiences with a C+ CinemaScore. Still, it's performing better than the director's previous Phoenix collaboration, 'Beau Is Afraid.'
8. 🚀 Elio: (Wk 5) $2M domestic weekend (-50%), $68.9M domestic total, $152M global.
9. 🌺 Lilo & Stitch: (Wk 9) $1.5M domestic weekend (-45%), $418.2M domestic total, $1B+ global. The live-action remake has become 2025's first billion-dollar film globally.
10. 🧟‍♂️ 28 Years Later: (Wk 5) $1.34M domestic weekend (-51%), $68.7M domestic total, $145M global.

The big picture: Hollywood delivered a $132.3M domestic weekend, down 11.5% from last year's ‘Twisters’-dominated frame. But the box office has a new king: year-to-date, Warner Bros. has overtaken Disney as the top-grossing studio at the domestic box office with $1.32B, edging out Disney’s $1.27B, thanks to ‘Superman’s’ strong legs and a record six No. 1 openings.

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Gary King

Loving the optimism and pure fun pumping through Superman, something we desperately need from our American hereos in these times. Glad to see audiences are responding to it despite WB's past DC failures making everyone cautious at first.