It's a bird. It's an aircraft. It is one of the biggest box office openings since 2025. After literally years of expectation, the "Superman" arrived by director Jameseims Gan, which broke with it a new era for the DC universe. At least in the early walk, the audience appeared in driving to see what the man can bring behind the "Guardians of the Galaxy" trilogy of Marvel Studios, who can bring it to the "steel man".

Superman eventually opened $ 220 million to the global treasurer during the first weekend of publication, including about $ 125 million at home. That home number is Only a little more than Zac Snyder's "Steel Man" brought it in 2013With Henry Caville's debut as a Superman worshiping $ 116.9 million on the road to $ 668 million worldwide. Then, the hope is that Superman can avoid a big drop in his second weekend. As you may remember, the tracking of Snyder's "steel man", Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice, "began with $ 166 million in domestic in 2016 before dropping a rock in the weekend two. Fortunately, it seems less likely to happen here.

Gun's "Superman" brings a budget north of $ 200 million, so it will need decent legs to become an important theater hit for Warner Bros., thus, Gunn and Peter Safran's vision has already been obtained for a promising start to the big screen. So what went right here? How did Gun manage to bring back the audience to the ship for more DC after a few years? We break down the biggest reasons why Superman became a hit on the box office in his open weekend. Let's dive.

2023 was nothing shy about DC disaster at the box office; "Jasmi! Hughes of the Gods", "Flash" and "Blue Beetle" all bombarded financial and even "aquaman and the lost kingdom" had to be qualified as a mass disappointment. That's why Warner Bros.. Discovery brought Gun and Safran to take responsibility for DC Studios. The change was very much needed, and that was exactly what Gun delivered.

Those who have seen Superman can confirm their bright, bizarre, optimistic takeover of the title and the world in which he lives, with David Corenvet embodying the patent idealistic view of the iconic hero of the DC. It all works in strict contrast to the darker and ugliest version of Snyder for the expanded DC universe, which began with a "steel man" and "Batman vs. Superman". While those films certainly have their own fans, they were also quite dividing.

What Gun has given us, for comparison, is to take over the supernatural that seems to resonate wider, which we will enter for more at one point. But the bigger thing is that Gun and Safran have a long -term species for unified DCCwhich is something that was very missing in the era of DCE. As such, the DCC has a better blow to keeping the audience when the next film in the franchise, "Superger", arrives in 2026.

The unstable DCE was very defined by division. Films like "Batman Against Superman" are discussing today. There are people who like "birds of prey" but wasn't a big hit. Suicide Squad won an Oscar and made a boat with money, but it was a critical disaster. Nothing ever seemed to have a total gel. In this case, Gun seemed to bring its usual ability to charm the audience with blockbusters on the largest volume.

Critics and the audience both responded very well to Superman in the early walk. The film brings a solid 83% critical rating of rotten tomatoes to go with a great 93% audience rating. Earn and pretty good A-cinema. In his review of "Superman", he called Chris Evangelist of the film "Charming cozy crowd".

These indicators suggest that the film has a good stroke on respectable legs like summer, which will have to justify its budget. This can be tricky, watching Marvel Studios "fantastic four" right behind the corner, while "Jura World Birth" still goes strong, especially abroad. However, without being able to predict the future, we can certainly say that the majority of people seem to be on the side of this film.

Although Superman, as a character, never had the same appeal to the box office as Batman (all respect), he is still one of the most popular and lasting superheroes recognized the whole world. As such, people were very ready to accept a new movie "Superman", especially since it went surprisingly after Clark Kent was in the center of a big moving image, as hard as it is to believe.

"Man of Steel" in 2013 was the last time the character was making a solo film, Despite many attempts to get "steel man 2" made over the years. "Batman vs. Superman" and "Justice League" were team films showing cavalry soups, but he was part of a bigger story. In fact, the last Caville theater performance was in the "Justice League" in 2017, which was a pretty big disaster. After that, the last time we saw him on the screen was in the scene "Black Adam" post-credit, which in the end did not lead to anything, as the WB decided to go after restarting the road after that.

All this is to say, for a superhero with such a significant impact on the mark, it is more than a little surprising that it has been so long since Superman won the silver screen in a significant way. While broadcast live series with action like Superman and Lois During that dead period, it is not the same as a large budget feature. So, in this case, Gun and the SB have benefited from the demand for intertwining.

Another thing that really worked in favor of Superman was the time. Marvel Studios has released two major blockbusters this year in the forms of Captain America: The Brave New World "and" Thunderbolt*". However, the former made just over $ 400 million globally, while the second made less than $ 400 million in box office. Finally, Captain America and Marvel's response to Sam Wilson on the Task Force X just didn't even see the A-list events for most audiences.

What this meant to Warner Bros. and Gun is that there was an additional demand for a superhero film that could earn a label that must be seen from the general audience. Back in the 2010s, the Marvel Cinema Universe films would only earn that label by only the Logo of Marvel Studios attached to them, but that time passed. DCE's films, on the other hand, never had it. But if your film features Batman or Spiderman, for example, the ordinary audience is likely to buy. It is double for Superman, even if he is not at the same level as those titans struggling with crime.

Simply worked out that in 2025, with Marvel in the midst of fall and DC promised something new, Superman was the real hero at the right time. The real question is whether the "fantastic four" can reach similar heights later this month, but it is a conversation for another time. So far, there is no need to lower one of these superheroes to raise the other.

Speaking about the success of Superman and critically and commercially after his impressive open weekend, we must admit how important Jameseims Gun is in all this. Each film reflects his director, but Gun claims himself as a rare director who makes films on the largest scale, inside the massive franchises, but still manages to give them a great person, allowing them to stand out between the crowd. From the moment it was confirmed that he would be creative DC Studios And directing the first big DCU movie, there was excitement and optimism. There's a good reason for that.

We never forget that Gun is the guy who made "Guardians of the Galaxy", Marvel F-list estate in front of the film, in one of the most successful trilogies in MCC. Indeed, the first film "Guardians" remains one of the most dearest mainstream blockbusters in the last 15 years. This is a man who has earned the confidence of the audience because he made people want a sensitive tree and a raccoon. He similarly climbed the task of discovering Superman even as he tried to build a whole universe from the back of this film.

It is by no means easy, to put it very easily. However, Gun brought his film game A-play, and the audience was on his side. There's something to say about it. He is an artist of the people's root. There is a feverish excitement when his name is attached to a project. In the sphere of the superhero cinema, it is quite rare. Without handling too much in front of us, DC Studios is in good hands, it seems.

Superman is now in cinemas.