‘Supergirl’ Opens to $38 Million While ‘Toy Story 5’ Holds No. 1 With $70 Million

Supergirl didn’t fly. Milly Alcock’s first outing as Kara Zor-El opened to an estimated $38 million in North America and $68 million worldwide, according to Deadline’s Sunday update, while Toy Story 5 stayed No. 1 with $70 million in its second weekend.

Variety says Monday’s final tally came in lower, at $37.1 million domestic and $62.6 million globally, from 3,600 theaters. Warner Bros. and DC Studios had been targeting $50 million to $55 million, which would already have been a soft start for a film with a reported $170 million budget before marketing. A film of that size would need at least $375 million to break even, Variety says, though a source close to the production puts the number nearer $300 million.

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The comparisons are not kind. Deadline notes that the opening is lower than Marvel’s weakest, The Marvels ($46.1 million), and “God awfully close” to Joker: Folie à Deux ($37.6 million). The audience skewed older and male: TheWrap reports 59% of the opening crowd was male and 65% was over 25, meaning the young women the film was built for largely stayed home. It earned a B- from CinemaScore and sits at 56% on Rotten Tomatoes. Its one bright spot was premium screens: 51% of the gross came from Imax and other large formats.

DC Studios co-chief Peter Safran told the New York Times he is staying the course:

While ‘Supergirl’ didn’t meet our box office expectations, it’s just one component of a broader, long-term strategy at DC Studios that we remain confident in.

Peter Safran, co-chairman and co-CEO, DC Studios, TheWrap, citing the New York Times

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Pixar had the opposite weekend. Toy Story 5, the film carrying Taylor Swift’s new Jessie song, dropped 56% from its opening, which Deadline calls “spot on” with Incredibles 2, the record-holder for animated openings. That leaves it at $297.2 million domestic and $585 million worldwide after ten days, and TheWrap expects it to become the highest-grossing Toy Story film before adjusting for inflation.

The rest of the summer is already lining up. Illumination’s Minions & Monsters arrives for the Fourth of July with a potential $100 million over five days, per Deadline, and Supergirl has to survive it. DC’s next films are the October horror pic Clayface and Superman: Man of Tomorrow next summer.

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