Superman box office projections targeting $140M-$185M opening

The Superman box office projections are in for the opening weekend, and things are looking promising.

BoxOfficeTheory has released its projections for the opening weekend of Superman in the U.S. Currently, it's placing the film's opening weekend box office between $140 million and $185 million.

The wide range is due in part to the Amazon screenings on July 8 skewing the first day of general pre-sales. While the sales for the July 8 early screenings were a huge success, it slowed the general sales a bit, which opened up the following day.

This film is going to have an uphill battle when it comes to bringing in the casual viewers. Luckily, it has a pretty clear runway in its second weekend with the only new releases being Eddington, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Smurfs. The third weekend is where the real issues kick in as it will face off against the opening of The Fantastic Four: First Steps.

For now, the Superman box office projections look positive, and there are still four weeks to win over more casual viewers with marketing and reviews.

Superman will serve as the first live-action entry expressly made for the new DCU. In addition to seeing Superman, the film will include the first appearances of Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Perry White, Cat Grant, Steve Lombard, Lex Luthor, Eve Teschmacher, Hawkgirl, Mister Terrific, Metamorpho, Guy Gardner, the Engineer, and Krypto the Superdog. Some rumors have indicated we will also see the first appearance of Supergirl, who is set to be played by Milly Alcock. She will then appear in her own film, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.

The cast of Superman is set to include David Corenswet as Superman, and Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane. They will all be joined by Isabela Merced as Hawkgirl, Edi Gathegi as Mister Terrific, Anthony Carrigan as Metamorpho, Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardner, Skyler Gisondo as Jimmy Olsen, Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor, Sara Sampaio as Eve Teschmacher, Wendell Pierce as Perry White, María Gabriela de Faría as the Engineer , Mikaela Hoover as Cat Grant, Christopher MacDonald as Ron Troupe, and Beck Bennett as Steve Lombard.

Superman will hit theaters on July 11, 2025.

5 comments

Sara
June 13, 2025
This article got an ominous punchline from the three "You May Also Like" links for Joker 2 articles telling us that it "wins its opening weekend," "drops 81% in its second weekend," and "falls out of the top five in week 3."
1. Phelps
  June 15, 2025
  Nice delusional cope. See you when this is breaking box-office records left and right.
  1. devilman013
    June 15, 2025
    I'd go easy on the crystal ball, Nostradamus. This movie needs to be good first, before it breaks any sort of record
jrvc
June 14, 2025
we'll see. This is WB/DC after all
Phelps
June 15, 2025
Man of Steel was the number one movie for a whopping one whole week, then it dropped to third place a week later and SIXTH place the next week. And that was with having the giant advantage of being a massively well known Superman movie released during the height of superhero movie mania in pop culture solely thanks to the MCU.
Meanwhile, Superman 2025 is releasing during a time period when the general consensus for years among casual and hardcore fans is "DC movies suck LOL" yet it's still going to absolutely destroy Man of Steel in every single metric possible. The absolute cope from the bots and cultists is going to be too funny for words!

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