Things are going from bad to worse for Milly Alcock’s DC superhero flop Supergirl at the domestic box office.
Directed by Craig Gillespie and produced by DC Studio co-CEO James Gunn, Supergirl, starring Alcock in the title role, came in far short of its early June tracking of $55 million in its opening weekend and instead earned a disastrous $37.1 million in ticket sales from 3,602 North American theaters.
That number is significant, considering, per Variety, that the film had a $170 million production budget plus “roughly $120 million” was spent on marketing. Supergirl’s $37.1 million opening is comparable to Warner Bros.’ DC disaster Joker: Folie a Deux, which notoriously bombed in its opening weekend with $37.6 million from 4,102 North American theaters in 2024.
Now, after the film’s opening weekend crash, Supergirl is projected by Deadline to take a steep 73% dive in its second weekend domestically and earn only $10 million for a No. 4 finish. If there’s any saving grace, Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga’s Joker sequel dropped -81% on its second weekend in 2024, earning $7 million in its second weekend frame.
Supergirl entered this weekend with $48.8 million in domestic ticket sales and $34.5 million internationally for a worldwide box office tally of $83.3 million.
‘Minions & Monsters’ Is Projected To Open At No. 1, But The Movie Is Underperforming
Also struggling in its opening weekend is Minions & Monsters, Universal Pictures’ seventh film in the Despicable Me franchise.
Deadline is projecting that the film will open with $63.5 million from 4,243 North American venues in its five-day 4th of July holiday weekend, far below its pre-release projection of $80 million. Deadline projects that the film will earn $38.5 million Friday through Sunday. The good news for Universal is that Minions & Monsters had a relatively modest production budget of $85 million before marketing, according to Variety.
Disney-Pixar’s Toy Story 5 is projected by Deadline to drop to No. 2 this weekend with a $30 million take from 3,975 theaters. If the forecast holds, it will boost the animated smash’s running tally to $365.3 million by Sunday.
The trade publication projects that the other big opening this weekend, Angel Studios and Wonder Project’s historical biopic, Young Washington, will open at No. 3 with $16 million to $17 million from 2,700 venues domestically. The film’s production budget information is not available.
Projected to finish in fifth place domestically this weekend is Steven Spielberg’s alien thriller Disclosure Day, which Deadline forecasts will make $5.6 million to up its running domestic tally to $104.8 million. A Universal Pictures release, Disclosure Day is playing in 2,702 North American venues.
Note: This box office report will be updated throughout the weekend as new information becomes available. The final numbers for this weekend’s box office will be released on Monday.