DC Studios’ second production under the James Gunn and Peter Safran administration, Supergirl, made $13M in its first day at the global box office, a number not far from the first day of Universal/Amblin’s Steven Spielberg movie, Disclosure Day which did $12M.
Broken down, domestic previews were $7.8M, that’s combined from Wednesday fan events and Thursday showtimes that began at 3PM yesterday. That’s a number above Disney/Marvel Studios’ The Marvels previews of $6.6M, and under what DC’s The Flash did at $9.7M.
Pic’s initial wave of foreign markets grossed $5.2M. The hope is that the pic clears $80M+ now in its global launch at 46,000 screens in 77 foreign markets. China and Japan are part of the offshore suite opening today with France and Belgium bowing next weekend. Domestic opening forecasts have cooled from $50M+ to upper $40M+ range start for the feature production which I’m told cost $170M, but others tell me net $186M.
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Rotten Tomatoes audience score stands at 77% which is higher than The Flash (63%), Shazam: Fury of the Gods (49%), and Joker: Folie a Deux (31%) and not far from Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (79%).
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