Man of Steel Box Office Update

[KalElFan]

Yesterday (Friday), Superman got his ass kicked by
a bunch of Monsters and Zombies who ganged up
on him. Monsters University looks headed for close
to $80M this weekend, World War Z in the vicinity of
$60M. Man of Steel will probably have to settle for
$42.5M or thereabouts, after its $116M+ debut last
weekend.

Large box office drops for blockbusters are not at all
uncommon, and no weekend in history has ever had
three $50M+ movies. So this weekend especially Man
of Steel couldn't buck the common big-drop result and
$40M+ domestic ain't chump change. That's a very
good OPENING weekend for the vast majority of films.

On the bright side, by the end of tomorrow's tally Man
of Steel will have grossed more box office domestically
than Superman Returns did in its entire run. Also more
than Batman Begins did in its entire run, and that one
spawned the two Dark Knight sequels that went #5 and
#7 *ALL-TIME*.

Man of Steel is also virtually guaranteed (assuming the
apolcalypse or the like doesn't happen :-)) to be higher-
grossing than Sony's Amazing Spider-Man reboot was.
The latter grossed $262M domestic and Man of Steel
will probably be past that by the end of next weekend.
Well past that to $300M+ as we get beyond July 4 and
through the rest of the Summer. $400M+ is probably
way beyond reach now, though, unless there's a re-
release of the Director's (Zack Snyder's) 3-hour cut or
some such in a few months. :-) It's rumored to exist
already, and if it does maybe Warners should consider
getting it out there. :-)

Sony's already made one sequel to their Spider-Man
reboot, that one scheduled for release the first Friday
in May, 2014 AND it's announced release dates for
two more Amazing Spider-Man sequels in 2016 and
2018.

So there can be very little doubt that Warner Bros.
announcement of Man of Steel sequels, and quite
possibly Justice League, will be followed through
on. There is some executroid drama going on at
Warner Bros. and I may have a post on that later.
But I can't see it getting in the way of Man of Steel
being a launching pad for Warner's DC Entertainment
properties finally taking on Marvel with a series of
movies over the next 5-7 years.

In some ways, DC may have an advantage now. It
(Warner Bros.) owns all the rights to Superman
thanks to a Judge named Otis on the 9th Circuit,
and it doesn't have the corporate ownership issues
that Marvel does -- Disney owning most but Sony
owning Spider-Man and so on. Another advantage
that could pan out is female heroes. DC has two,
Wonder Woman and Supergirl (Kara Zor-El version)
who are iconic and way beyond anything that Marvel
has or realistically will ever get.