Danielle Solzman
Superman is leading the pack as it soars past the $200 plateau at the box office by taking in an estimated $57.2 million during its second weekend of release. It’s second weekend decline of 54% makes it the best second weekend outing for a superhero movie this year. All in all, it’s a good year for Warner Bros. with
All numbers are estimates as we won’t know weekend actuals until Monday. This piece will be updated as studios begin to report their numbers.
New entries this weekend were Paramount Animation’s Smurfs, Sony’s I Know What You Did Last Summer, and A24’s Eddington. Smurfs wasn’t expected to bring in double digits but is looking at a $12 million weekend. The film’s production budget of $58 million means it is facing an uphill climb to break even at the box office.
I Know What You Did Last Summer is the first franchise entry in years if you don’t count the recent TV series. Produced for $18 million, the film is opening to around $13 million. Maybe Sony sees this as a win, but it’s clear that audiences really didn’t turn out for the newest film in the way that anyone would have liked. The original 1997 film earned just over $72 million domestically after opening in mid-October and $126 million worldwide. The 1998 sequel opened in mid-November and earned $84 million worldwide ($40 million domestically) against a budget of $24 million. Will opening in mid-July make a difference?
As for Ari Aster’s Eddington, it’s opening at almost $4.26 million. It’s already a better opening than Beau is Afraid, but the estimate is down from earlier estimates of $4.8 million. Regardless, the film’s opening guarantees that an A24 film will be staying in the weekend box office as last week’s #10 Materialists drops out.
In its first eight days of release, Superman quickly became the eighth highest grossing movie of 2025. It passed Final Destination: Bloodlines, F1: The Movie, and Thunderbolts*. Once we take Saturday and Sunday box office earnings into account, the superhero movie will pass up both Mission: Impossible–The Final Reckoning and Captain America: Brave New World. It technically already even after reaching $235 million domestically this weekend. But as mentioned last week, combined production and marketing costs were $400 million. This shouldn’t be a problem for the DC Studios reboot since worldwide numbers are getting closer.
Only two movies have won the weekend box office three weeks in a row–Captain America: Brave New World and Lilo and Stitch. It’s unlikely that Superman claims a third weekend with The Fantastic Four: First Steps opening in theaters on July 25. But for right now, things are looking well for both Superman and Jurassic World Rebirth to reach $300 million. The Jurassic sequel is only in its third weekend of release and isn’t slowing down just yet, taking the #2 spot with $23.4 million (-42%). It will pass Sinners and reach $300 million domestically by the end of the week. Internationally, it’s closing in on $600 million.
Lilo and Stitch is nearing 60 days in theaters. An estimated $1.5 million puts its domestic numbers over $417 million this weekend. At the same time, it has also become the first film to reach $1 billion at the box office this year. Disney hasn’t announced its home video plans for the film just yet, but the film is making its way to San Diego Comic-Con International for photo ops and taking fans behind-the-scenes during a July 25 panel.
Weekend Box Office Top Ten (Estimates)
- Superman: $57.2 million
- Jurassic World Rebirth: $23.4 million
- I Know What You Did Last Summer: $13 million
- Smurfs: $12 million
- F1: The Movie: $9.6 million
- How to Train Your Dragon: $5.35 million
- Eddington: $4.26 million
- Elio: $2 million
- Lilo and Stitch: $1.5 million
- 28 Years Later: $1.34 million
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