New figures are out for Superman 2025 box office projections that are slightly lower than originally tracked. Original predictions for the upcoming James Gunn-directed movie had ticket sales at around an $175 million opening, but these opening weekend numbers have been lessened a bit due to the film’s presale release. Domestic sales in the United States still remain high overall and are still among the highest when compared to other movies releasing around the same time, specifically Jurassic World Rebirth and The Fantastic Four: The First Steps. Here’s a breakdown of the latest box office tracking for the new Superman movie, which releases nationwide on July 11.
What is the new Superman 2025 box office forecast?
The box office sales for Superman 2025 is expected to fall somewhere between $140 and $185 million for the 3-day opening weekend (July 11 is on a Friday), while overall domestic sales range from $370 and $571 milllion.
For a point of comparison, the new forecast has the opening weekend for The Fantastic Four: First Steps to come in between $125 and $155 million, with overall domestic sales ranging from $277 to $395 million. These numbers are noticeably, well, a step lower.
These new projections come from Box Office Theory, an industry newsletter founded by the Director of Analytics (Movies) at Fandango. The report has shaved off a small portion of the opening weekend ticket sales mainly because of the Amazon Prime early access event for Superman 2025 that allowed moviegoers to purchase presale tickets at Fandango to early screenings of the movie on July 8.
It notes that this is only the second time, after Wicked last year, that a Prime early access event has been done through Fandango, so the impact of these early screenings on the film’s opening is rather unpredictable. Still, the report predicts that these July 8 viewings will amount to around $22 million. Fandango revealed that this presale opportunity for Superman 2025 was the site’s best first-day ticket pre-seller to date.
That said, the report remains conservative with the film’s opening success in part due to the saturation of somewhat high-profile movies in the market, which includes Jurassic World Rebirth, How to Train Your Dragon, F1: The Movie, and 28 Years Later.
The global box office goal for Superman 2025 is over $700 million for the movie to be considered “a hit,” according to a top talent agent in May.
