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Superman is a box office hit, but the hard part comes next

Charles Pulliam-Moore

created: July 14, 2025, 9:22 p.m. | updated: July 15, 2025, 2:34 p.m.

Over the weekend, DC Studios’ new Superman feature became this year’s third-biggest box-office debut in the US. And even though Superman is putting up numbers, DC might have a much harder time doing the same with its next couple of cape movies. Following the disaster that became known as the DCEU, WB was in desperate need of a fresh start and a vision for how it could use DC characters in ways that audiences would actually like. That need led to the creation of DC Studios with Gunn and co-CEO Peter Safran guiding the whole endeavor. Milly Alcock’s Supergirl, who gets a brief and fantastic Superman cameo, seems a bit better suited to keep the franchise’s current momentum going.

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