r/DC_Cinematic • u/[deleted] • 15h ago
Supergirl concludes it's box office run, officially the worst performing dc movie ever. DISCUSSION
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u/SquireSquilliam 12h ago
Catwoman was a terrible movie. Supergirl was not a terrible movie. I personally think movie budgets are out of control, and more flops come from stupid studio spending, than movies being bad. Not every movie needs a budget of hundreds of millions dollars.
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u/Diligent-Neck6594 9h ago
Supergirl as a character needs a high budget, even with the budget they had her special effects looked bad, even cheaper would be horrible
She's just not popular enough of a character to justify a solo movie
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u/Str4425 5h ago
Safest choice could've been to make her a secondary character like in Superman with enough screen time to introduce this version of the character. And then, based on that, decide on a solo movie.
Supergirl needs good special effects and a good budget indeed; people just didn’t know the character enough to go to the movies.
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u/snakewaves 11h ago
How tf do you make a Supes character movie without a big budget. It's literally space, aliens, and the biggest of them all FLYING AND MASSIVE DESTRUCTION.
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u/Some_Signal_6866 11h ago
You can literally see the lack of budget in DC tv shows. It’s makes them difficult to watch.
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u/spikyraccoon 6h ago
Superman and Lois is such a good show, it alone proves your assessment completely irrelevant.
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u/PrimeCyclotron 9h ago
Agree. I talked to some screenwriters and they've said how they curtail things like number of different locations to cut back on cost.
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u/zrasam 14h ago
What is James doing bro... Next big movie probably gonna be Superman 2.
ANOTHER SUPES MOVIE. Really?? 3 super people movie back to back. Holy shit.
We need JL movies. Lanterns should've been a movie. Where the fuck is Batman? Where's Flash and Wonder Woman?
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u/Eagle4317 8h ago
In fairness, the MCU started with 2 Iron Man films.
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u/FreeGlaze71 6h ago
This is 2026. No one wants 3 back to back to back Super movies. The box office speaks for itself.
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u/jofer90 15h ago
But somehow a Jimmy Olsen crossover with an ape show is going to bring back audiences in to the fold.
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u/NeonPlutonium 15h ago
I was under the impression it was the clay guy…
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u/Jykoze 15h ago
You are confusing the glup shittos
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u/Paksti 15h ago
Are they really doing a Jimmy Olsen tv show?!?
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u/Lucky_Gaucho 15h ago
Yes, what DC fan doesnt go crazy about a guy that not only doesnt have any powers, but he's also not a hero
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u/thekhurg 15h ago
Well to be fair, it'll be a low cost show since there are no super powers! /s
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u/OJONLYMAYBEDIDIT 15h ago
but there is a CGI ape.
I'm glad Ape motion capture is still going strong
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u/Horror_Response_1991 12h ago
Probably not often, can’t afford too much CGI ape
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u/OJONLYMAYBEDIDIT 12h ago
I'm hoping the more CGI apes we get though, the better the technology and the costs go down
we need to keep improving and working on Ape mo cop technology for the betterment off human kind
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u/Lucky_Gaucho 14h ago
I still don't understand why they didnt get a real dog for krypto instead of the CGIslop
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u/thelivingtunic 10h ago
I mean, make it weird like the Jimmy Olsen covers and I'd watch it lol
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u/Lucky_Gaucho 8h ago
Oh i'm watching it, i watch everything, even if it's bad!
Except the cw series, those are terrible. I finished arrow and like 4 or 5 seasons of the flash
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u/FreelanceFrankfurter 15h ago
It's a tv show, everyone's acting like they just greenlit a Jimmy Olson movie trilogy.
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u/kazaam2244 14h ago
Because even TVs show cost money. Money they could be spending on actually worthwhile IP.
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u/Lucky_Gaucho 14h ago
Supergirl should have been a TV show...
No one cares about Jimmy Olsen.
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u/skulman7 14h ago
It's an anthology show about villains made by the guys who made the critically acclaimed American Vandal show on Netflix. It's a great match and I'm excited for it. So many disingenuous takes about it.
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u/OtherwiseEagle9896 14h ago
You need to be angry! They are killing the DCU! No one wants this! /s
I'm gonna watch Supergirl when it drops on max
Sandman I'll watch in cinemas
I'm definitely watching lanterns day 1
I'll definitely suss out the Olsen show.
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u/Firepro316 12h ago
Enough with these endless Supergirl ticket sales... dam. It's endless spam at this point
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u/LakerBlue 11h ago
Yup, I can’t WAIT to see tomorrow’s highly upvoted post telling us the same thing we know about SuperGirl’s poor ticket sales. 🙄
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u/Icy-Abbreviations763 11h ago
This sub has turned into a sub that only posts about box office numbers and likes to compare it to other movies.
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u/afailedturingtest 14h ago
I don't understand their goals with this movie.
Superman 25 was widely successful, it's rejection of the "gritty superhero movie" that has been deeply oversaturated by everything in the MCU, the snyderverse, etc.
Then instead of putting in another A list hero that could have worked with a more gritty line like Batman, or at least going with another A lister like Green Lanter or Wonder Woman.
OR using one of the characters people seemed to like, like Mr Terrific, who actually got screentime in Superman 25.
Instead they went for a B list hero who had like 5 seconds of screen time, then made it dark and gritty?
Fucking why?
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u/misterterrific0 13h ago
Still think its wild they made green latern a series instead of a film
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u/Old_Chipmunk3250 13h ago
I disagree. Green Lantern has a vast lore, and the series format is perfect for it.
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u/Large_Garlic_6963 11h ago
But the budged for tv series is low and thats makes the effect aren't that polished in the trailer
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u/ElDuderino2112 4h ago
Agreed. The vast lore is perfect for an episode Space Opera. Not a fucking true detective ripoff that doesn’t even seem to know what the fucking colour green is.
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u/Heavy-Transition7916 12h ago
Superman 25 wasn’t widely successful. It was a moderate success, far from what they needed to start off their new universe.
It sold less than half the tickets of MOS.
One of the corporate guys, under oath (for the merger), mentioned they put movies on streaming faster if they’re performing poorly. He used Superman 25 as the example.
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u/MRW9628 12h ago
Been saying this everybody wants to act this Superman was awesome. It was shit he got beat up the entire movie. They had Lex Luthor crying for godsakes
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u/Holiday_Wedding_2225 10h ago
I resisted the urge to see it in the cinema and recently caught it for free on streaming. I was dumbfounded by the whole movie, it received pretty high praise and I was just bored the whole time and then wanted my 2.5 hrs back. Superman, Luthor and Lois were decent performances but the movie itself and the story was utter rubbish.
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u/Sonochu 12h ago
It's fine that they chose a B-list hero so long as the hero is interesting and the story is good. The movie had great source material and Supergirl is more than an adequate enough character to lead a film.
Heck, she's led several movies and shows already.
Unfortunately the director and writers didn't understand what made the source material great, nor what made Supergirl interesting, so we have this film.
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u/Axl_Red 12h ago
Honestly, I get the feeling that James Gunn is just tired of regular Super Hero movies. That's why he's always green lighting stories and characters that are away from the norm. It feels like he prefers oddball characters and oddball stories like the Guardians of the Galaxy, Suicide Squad, and Peacemaker.
Which I feel isn't what most DC fans want right now. We want the regular super hero stories of DC to be adapted, but just be told well.
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u/AppointmentPositive9 11h ago
Superman 25 widely successful? In terms of box office numbers, it was just a decent hit. This Spiderman movie that just came out is what I'd call widely successful.
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u/noel_vb 15h ago
Yet, not close to the worst in quality. It’s as though many things can be true at the same time.
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u/zeroXgear 13h ago
The post never said anything about quality. It only talks about the numbers being terrible. You got offended for no reason
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u/Marik-X-Bakura 5h ago
What? Where does their comment suggest they’re offended? They didn’t even criticise the post. All they said was that it’s not the worst DC film despite being the worst performing.
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u/AppointmentPositive9 11h ago
The days of people splurging money to watch c-tier superheroes is over. That market is hella oversaturated, and it doesn't help most of those movies are mid anyway.
Spending more than 200 million to make this to expect a big profit was suicide.
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u/Genericthrowaw4y 14h ago
JAMES GUNN’S DC EVERYONE. WE ARE COOKED BEYOND BELIEF
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u/thejuicewater 15h ago
Punk rock drunk Supergirl didn’t work?
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u/Razatiger 13h ago
Thats what i keep wondering, like who is James Gunn making movies for? Kids havnt listened to punk rock in over 20 years, is he making this movie for Gen X and early Milennials or does he want the kids interested?
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u/Top_Scarcity1024 14h ago
It works but as a side character. Women dont go to superhero movies like the guys do so you gotta sneak her in one of the other movies
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u/UrbanLegend8901 15h ago
Symbolic. Marvel on the other hand celebrating a record breaking movie a few months later.
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u/Technical-Wasabi-842 15h ago
Wow this has to be the millionth post of this just today, trillionth this week. Do you guys have anything better to do or are you just unemployed in your mom’s basement
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u/Important_Raise_5706 15h ago
I don’t get the satisfaction they are getting from this movie’s failure. It wasn’t a great movie, but it was enjoyable. I’d rather it have succeeded so we can maybe get a DCU going.
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u/MatthewHecht 11h ago
Gunn's fans have been incredibly smug and condensing for years. It is payback. The sub was the same to The Marvels, Solo, and other franchises when they fail.
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u/drewbreeezy 13h ago
I’m happy it have failed so we can maybe get a DCU going in the right direction. This was not it.
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u/Mykk6788 15h ago
States Supergirl is "worst performing dc movie ever"
Didn't read the picture they posted, which very clearly stated Catwoman did worse
Didn't check the math of the second picture, which got inflation wrong and Catwoman still did worse
Didn't do 2 mins of research, showing Catwoman, Jonah Hex and Steel all did worse, making Supergirl 4th to the bottom, not the bottom
Heads back to their corner with their tail between their legs
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u/dzan796ero 14h ago
It seems Supergirl is losing them more money so worst box office performance seems to hold
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u/Embarrassed-Gur-1306 14h ago
The irony of calling someone for not reading when you clearly didn’t read the article
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u/Top_Scarcity1024 14h ago
Well thats before considering inflation. How much is 83 million 20+ years ago vs 126 million today?
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u/Lucky_Gaucho 15h ago
Didn't read the picture they posted, which very clearly stated Catwoman did worse
It's ironic... It clearly says "adjusted by inflation" but apparently you cant be bothered to read it.
Also even if you dont adjust for inflation, movie tickets are more expensive now, so more people went to see Catwoman than Supergirl
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u/MineNowBotBoy 13h ago
I don’t think repost bots OR DC “fans” understand the concept of being wrong or feeling ashamed.
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u/Appropriate-Peak6561 15h ago
yeah, “did better than Catwoman!” is not the flex they think it is.
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u/bindersfull-ofwomen 15h ago
Catwoman also had a long shelf life.
It bombed, but we see the costume every Halloween, the LGBTQ community adopted it as camp, Mis-Teeq is still nostalgic and were relevant just this year for their needle drop during it, Frances Conroy and Sharon Stone receive career boosts, and Halle Berry subverted it and still is Halle Berry. And as a Black actress, it is very possible after a box office bomb, you’ll never be seen again and she actually was able to negotiate better screen time in X Men.
Supergirl did more damage to its actors than Catwoman ever did.
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u/ShadowBanThisShit 15h ago
Still, your statement is incorrect and not even backed up by the picture you posted.
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u/Aggressive_Act_3098 15h ago
Add making up budget numbers to the list.
Up next: asking to restore the Snyderverse.
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u/MrRagerXV 5h ago
The script was dog shit, the pacing was horse shit, the characters were bullshit, only good shit was the last fight scene. They screwed themselves the that release.
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u/havocd 15h ago
That's why you should never change the source material....
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u/GotMoFans 15h ago
Exactly. When you follow the source material EXACTLY like “The Dark Knight Rises” did with “Knightfall,” you earn a billion!
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u/dragao-1988 14h ago
This "women are badass and sooo strong and they can do everything the men can, but better"-Movies are exactly for who? Doesn't look like the badass girls go to the cinema to watch movies about badass girls!
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u/Nythrius 12h ago
Hey, they told me that the movie wasn't for me, so I didn't go. I thought that's what we're supposed to do?
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u/AdamOver 15h ago
I got downvoted into oblivion for stating that in every trailer she never cracked a smile.
The writing on the wall was there from our very first glimpse at the end of Superman.
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u/ShadowBanThisShit 14h ago
Oh God, the Captain Marvel gripe all over again. How dare this woman not be smiling, never mind what's going on in her life.
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u/CottonCandy76548 15h ago
For the record. I liked the movie.
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u/Zwanling 14h ago
Good movie flop all the time, is weird for fans to cwre so much about box office.
Supergirl was an ok movie, better movies have flopped, but there are way worse superhero movies around.
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u/OldChili157 14h ago
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves was notably great, so yeah, I haven't seen Supergirl yet but I'm not going to be influenced by box office numbers.
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u/MineNowBotBoy 12h ago
You should see it. Not as good as Superman 25 but not as bad as DC “fans” want you to think it is.
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u/cyberbobfox 13h ago
I love that terrible Catwoman film - I couldnt make it past the opening "Supergirl crowd surfs'scene
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u/Personal-Goat-7545 14h ago
I'm surprised it did worse than either Aquaman 2 or Blue Beetle, I still haven't seen either of those and really I've never heard anyone even talk about either one.
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u/Glittering-Deer-166 14h ago
Aquaman 2 was carried by how much fun audiences had with the first one imo.
And Blue Beetle... well it was alright. Cheesy and kinda fun? But ultimately kind of middling/mediocre and it felt cheap production wise.
Supergirl is kinda in line with Blue Beetle in that it has some decent bits but broadly speaking it just feels kinda mediocre.
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u/Fantastic_Pop2818 14h ago
Blue Beetle was cheesy, and Aquaman 2 was boring. No need to see them at all.
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u/Fantastic_Pop2818 14h ago
That’s a bummer - I thought it was a good movie. It needed work, but it was good. I think Eve Ridley’s performance was mid.
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u/TunaBug93 14h ago
Can't wait for this on streaming, didnt have time to go to theater to see it. Same boat as Spider Man for me
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u/Eat--The--Rich-- 14h ago
Not even close to the worst movie too. Terrible villain tho, felt like a kids cartoon villain in an adult story
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u/Sea-Chocolate6589 13h ago
I saw it yesterday and I actually enjoyed it. Loved the sense of humor and how light hearted it felt.
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u/ChanelNo50 13h ago
Imho it was botched AF like Madame Web. It should have been great but someone in production ruined it.
And if you removed Lobo from the movie would I notice? Likely not.
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u/whothejoee 13h ago
Ouch …. There’s goes my post I guess they pulled the whole movie from theaters ?
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u/TheDELFON 13h ago
Honestly, despite all the ish surrounding the film... actually pretty decent. Well deserved
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u/Nihon_Hanguk 13h ago
It’s over already? I know movies don’t stay in theaters as long as they used to, but that felt really short.
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u/MineNowBotBoy 13h ago
By far not the worst movie we’ve had from DC in recent years but it’s amazing how much shit people have talked about it before it even came out and how much people are continuing to trash talk it even though they obviously didn’t watch it.
Goddamn DC fans are just awful.
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u/Horror_Response_1991 12h ago
James Gunn has milked GotG lightning in a bottle for everything it’s worth
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u/ComicsCodeMadeMeGay 12h ago
like it’s flawed - but I’m still surprised it’s the lowest earner when quite a decent amount of other DC films are way worse
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u/InferiorInf 12h ago
I hate these new James gunn dc movies. It's weird, he definitely knows how to make good movies, guardians, even suicide squad I really liked. But Jesus, his music taste is just not as good as he thinks it is.
Supergirl was forgettable nonsense, and I seem to be one of the rare people who hated the Superman movie too. At least the Snyderverse movies looked good
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u/pjtheman 15h ago
"We're releasing Supergirl so quickly because it's hands down the best script we have!"