The highly anticipated superhero movie The Flash, produced by DC and Warner Bros., has made an impressive $55 million in its opening weekend in North American theaters, according to studio estimates on Sunday. While this is a significant amount of money, it falls short of the usual superhero standards where $100 million debut weekends are common. Nevertheless, it outperformed DC’s previous release, the Shazam! sequel, and secured a first-place start. The weekend was crowded with other releases, including the new Pixar family film Elemental and the horror-comedy The Blackening. The standout success was Wes Anderson’s star-studded film Asteroid City, which earned an impressive $720,000 from just six theaters, boasting the highest per-theater average—$132,211—since the start of the pandemic.
With a budget of $200 million, The Flash introduces the concept of the multiverse, allowing for the return of both Michael Keaton’s Batman and Ben Affleck’s Batman. It earned an additional $75 million internationally, resulting in a global start of $139 million. While critics had mixed reviews, it received a more positive response than negative, with a 67% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Jocelyn Noveck of the AP wrote in her review that while the film had some “breezily clever and entertaining” moments, the final act became weighed down by an endless CGI battle and a resolution that seemed forced. According to CinemaScore polls, audiences gave the film a B rating, which historically isn’t great news for word-of-mouth potential and long-term success.
Here are the estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at US and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore:
- The Flash, $55 million.
- Elemental, $29.5 million.
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, $27.8 million.
- Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, $20 million.
- The Little Mermaid, $11.6 million.
- The Blackening, $6 million.
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, $5 million.
- The Boogeyman, $3.8 million.
- Fast X, $2 million.
- Adipurush, $1.6 million.
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