It may have finally knocked “Barbie” off the top of the box-office, but the results for the DC Comics adaptation “Blue Beetle” must be leaving Warners feeling a little blue.
The film opened to an estimated $25.4 in North America and a further $18 million in 63 markets overseas for a global start of $43.4 million.
That figure’s domestic debut is behind earlier tracking estimates of between $28-32 million and gives it the second lowest opening of any film in the DCEU Snyderverse – ahead of only “Wonder Woman 1984” which was released simultaneously on HBO Max and at the height of a wave of the pandemic.
Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” came in second with $21.5 million domestically and $26 million overseas in its fifth weekend. Domestically it sits at $567.3 million and its worldwide total now stands at an astonishing $1.279 billion. “Oppenheimer” was third place with $10.6 million, bringing its global total to $718 million.
Naughty canine comedy “Strays” looks set to be put down as the film opened to just a fifth-place debut with $8.3 million domestically, coming in behind “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” in fourth place with $8.4 million.
“The Meg 2: The Trench” was sixth with $6.7 million, the film doing boffo box-office overseas, which means its global total stands at around $300 million so far. A24’s “Talk to Me” was seventh with a $45 million worldwide haul so far – ten times its budget.
“Last Voyage of the Demeter” plunged 62% in its second weekend to a $2.5 million three-day domestic haul and tenth place. In overseas markets, the “Gran Turismo” film has pulled in $22.7 million by weekend’s end.
Source: Deadline
