‘Supergirl’ Braces for $100 Million Loss: What DC Studios Should Learn From Its Box Office Bomb

I think next up is westerns again or zombie movies again, it’s all on a big carousel

I find that recent superhero movies expect you to understand the world context from the kajillion movies and books that came before it. So much time is spent showing something or someone on screen with ominous music that makes it clear that you should already know what this means or who it is. I don’t have 700 hours of superhero world research to do before watching a movie, and I have started to hate this genre because the movies are becoming barely comprehensible on their own.

Ugh.

I think it’s space movies next, with all the SpaceX buzz.

Have they tried putting several superheroes into one movie? Maybe do a crossover! LEGO?

Is the movie any good though?

I think people are just tired of Superhero movies.

Obsession was a smash hit and that was a very female focused story 😀

Also, in October, Laika will release their newest stopmotiin film, Wildwood which will be a story about a girl, trying to save her baby brother from a weird fantasy world. I still haven’t been able to sit through that trailer without bawling my eyes out. It fucks me up, dude. It’s so beautiful. Please put a pin in this one for October! I genuinely think you won’t regret this one.

Yeah it was number 2 at the box office. The only reason that’s a failure is if they set expectations wrong. Sounds like they wanted it to fail.

Yeah no, we don’t need to turn every superhero movie into a gritty nolanverse-like

We need space for fun, for whimsy, for brightness

I don’t know about art, but James Gunn has a knack for entertaining movies.

It still exists

DC tends to be stronger on the TV side, like with Peacemaker, Young Justice, or (so I hear) My Adventures with Superman.

I didn’t see the supergirl movie because I knew she couldn’t possibly live up to DCAU supergirl.

…It’s still relative though. There’s a lot of DC TV junk (or junk food).

It’s still going strong, it’s just not made by Disney or Universal

100m is probably just the marketing budget. It’s all a huge scam

They literally didn’t do that?

It’s full of life and colour.

Tell me you didn’t watch the movie without telling me you didn’t watch the movie

Spielberg’s latest is a massive pile of shite

Nolanverse-like is what was fucking DC already though, trying to force squares into round holes.

Making superman edgy AF cost them millions, cause that’s not what he is, he’s a bright beacon of hope, he’s a boy scout

They haven’t gone away, but they’ve scaled back significantly over the last few years. We used to get 3 MCU films and then a handful of DC films per year.

In 2024 we had a single superhero blockbuster, “Deadpool & Wolverine” and it brought in 1.3 billion globally.

In 2025 we did have four films. Captain America Brave New World and Thunderbolts, and both did 2x their budget aka “broke even”. Captain America was a bit of a mess, but Thunderbolts reviewed well and I think anyone who watched it really enjoyed it. Fantastic Four did a little better and I think people are interested. And that was just the MCU, DC only put out Superman which did well both financially and critically.

In 2026 we’re looking at three superhero films. Supergirl, which is doing just ok critically, but probably going to do very poorly financially. And again this is the only DC film. The MCU is going to give us Spider-Man in July and I bet it will do really well. Then at the end of the year we get Doomsday which is hard to say. I think it will do ok, but maybe not.

Looking forward into 2027 is interesting. We’re going to get four superhero films, but from four different universes. DCU will have Man of Tomorrow. MCU will have Secret Wars. Spider-Verse will have Beyond the Spider-Verse. Robert Pattinson Batman will have its sequel film.

I know that seems like a lot of overall “superhero movies”, but if you look at it per franchise then you’ll see that everyone has dialed back. DCU is at one per year. MCU is averaging about two per year. Big gaps force everyone else.

But importantly, all of this aside, if good superhero films are made I don’t think anyone really cares. People don’t want to see mid movies. We’re more forgiving when a non-superhero film is mid because everyone forgets about it and moves on.

But Supergirl? You saw her a year ago in Superman. You saw her this year in her own movie. You’re seeing her next year in Man of Tomorrow. She had a small part, then her movie stunk, and I don’t even care about her anymore. Enough Supergirl! That’s the current negative vibe going around right now,

But Superman? I saw his movie a year ago. I saw him show up in this movie. He’s in another movie next year. What an awesome introduction. Best part of the Supergirl movie. Can’t wait to see him team up next. That’s the Superman vibe.

Make good movies, people will see them and they’ll be excited to see them.

I feel like superhero movies need to go away for a while

Yes, please.

I’ve even tuned out superhero stuff that a decade ago I would have been super interested in. The zone got way too flooded. So many movies, and even more TV shows. Less stuff, higher quality writing please.

You’re not the target audience. Kids love these movies, no reason for them to go away. They’ve loved these films since Flash Gordon and even earlier I think Batman was in silent movies.

You know what else is getting tiresome? That argument. You sound like an old man yelling at clouds.

Don’t misattribute blame. Obviously some of them are doing well. That crushes your whole point.