Hoping Not To Be Gone In A ‘Flash’: DC Pic Eyes $155M+ WW Opening – Box Office Preview
14.06.2023 - 06:10
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After a year-plus of tabloid headlines about its star Ezra Miller, Warner Bros./DC’s Covid-delayed $200M Justice League standalone superhero movie The Flash finally arrives in theaters. The global opening looks better than domestic, $155M-$165M global to a $70M+ in U.S./Canada.
Despite a very good response out of CinemaCon and DC co-boss James Gunn exclaiming that the pic is “probably one of the greatest superhero movies ever made,” along with reports on how the movie is ready to reset the DC-verse, The Flash has been sitting around $70M-$75M on tracking for quite some time.
That’s a glass-half-full type of start stateside, especially in a marketplace that has been hot — and actually plans to remain hot. One box office source thinks that the total weekend gross for all movies could get to $200M. How’s that? There are two other wide releases aimed at non-fanboys: Disney/Pixar’s Elemental with around $35M (possibly even $40M+), and Lionsgate’s Tim Story-directed horror comedy The Blackening, which is looking at $6M-$8M U.S./Canada. Also, strong holds are expected for Transformers: Rise of the Beasts and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, earning potentially $30M apiece. Juneteenth is Monday, June 19, with 97% of colleges and K-12 schools off; that day is looking to provide another boost to the box office.
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However, despite what many sources bill as a great date for The Flash, and a great marketing campaign with spots selling Batman and The Flash, as opposed to Miller, the DC superhero’s projections haven’t budged.
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