“Superman” stays up, up and away on the field workplace. The superhero reboot retained its crown as three new releases, “Smurfs,” “I Know What You Did Final Summer time” and Ari Aster’s “Eddington,” didn’t pack a punch in theaters.

In its second weekend of launch, “Superman” collected $57.3 million from 4,774 venues — a typical 54% decline from its $125 million debut. After sturdy weekday holds, the Warner Bros. comedian e book journey has earned $236 million domestically and $406 million globally.

The studio wants the well-reviewed movie to maintain flying excessive through the aggressive summer time film season, which is able to choose up steam subsequent weekend as Disney’s Marvel journey “The Unbelievable 4: First Steps” touches down on the massive display. Past incomes again the $225 million manufacturing price range, “Superman” is meant to launch a brand new section of superhero films for the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned DC Studios. Two interconnected spinoffs, “Supergirl” and “Clayface,” will launch in 2026 with a brand new “Marvel Girl” film within the works.

Amongst newcomers, Sony’s “I Know What You Did Final Summer time” had the strongest begin at No. 3 with $13 million from 3,206 theaters. The movie added $11.6 million abroad from 58 markets, bringing its worldwide whole to $24.6 million. These delicate ticket gross sales counsel that nostalgia isn’t almost as potent as Sony may need hoped when greenlighting the slasher and reuniting the unique 1998 movie’s stars, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt. Though “I Know What You Did Final Summer time” opened behind projections, the movie price a modest $18 million to supply and gained’t take a ton of coinage to justify its price range.

When it comes to huge display longevity, although, it doesn’t assist that neither critics (38% on Rotten Tomatoes) nor audiences (“C+” grade on CinemaScore) favored the movie, a proven fact that didn’t appear to hassle the director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson. She gamely tweeted the phrase “camp” over a screenshot of the film’s bleak Rotten Tomatoes rating.

Paramount’s “Smurfs” opened in fourth place with $11 million from 3,504 venues, a disappointing outcome for the $58 million-budgeted musical. The animated journey has earned $25 million on the worldwide field workplace to this point for a world tally of $36 million. Although opinions often don’t have an excessive amount of a bearing on the turnout for household movies, “Smurfs” has the bottom Rotten Tomato rating (a 21% common) in your entire field workplace high 10. Moviegoers have been kinder, awarding the movie a good “B+” grade on CinemaScore exit polls. Though this sort of reception may not spark a brand new cinematic universe, the “Smurfs” huge display return will seemingly be an enormous driver of shopper merchandise. Rihanna leads the voice forged of “Smurfs” as Smurfette alongside the sprawling ensemble of James Corden, Nick Offerman, Natasha Lyonne, Sandra Oh, Jimmy Kimmel, Octavia Spencer and John Goodman.

Elsewhere on the field workplace, A24’s Western satire “Eddington” tumbled to the No. 7 spot with $4.2 million
from 2,111 venues its debut. Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal star within the polarizing movie, set in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic, as a sheriff and mayor that sparks a powder keg of their small city. Aster has scored huge with pure horror, similar to 2019’s “Midsommar” ($48 million) and 2018’s “Hereditary” ($87 million), however the filmmaker has been much less commercially constant when he’s deviated to different genres like 2023’s surrealist comedy “Beau Is Afraid” ($12 million). “Eddington” has blended opinions (67% on Rotten Tomatoes) and a poor “C+” grade on CinemaScore.

Common’s “Jurassic World Rebirth” remained in second place with $23 million from 3,854 venues, a 42% drop from the prior body. After three weekends of launch, the dinosaur reboot has earned $276 million domestically and $600 million globally. Though these are sturdy returns — one among solely three Hollywood movies to surpass the $600 million mark in 2025 — the most recent “Jurassic” has methods to go to achieve the heights of the prior sequel trilogy, all of which grossed $1 billion globally.

Rounding out the highest 5 is Apple’s “F1: The Film” with $9.6 million from 3,094 theaters in its fourth lap across the observe. That’s a 26% decline from the earlier weekend, bringing ticket gross sales to $153.6 million domestically and $460.8 million worldwide. Although the movie, which stars Brad Pitt and is being distributed by Warner Bros., price an enormous $250 million price ticket and may not flip a theatrical revenue, these ticket gross sales are sizable for an unique, adult-skewing property. It’s by far Apple’s highest-grossing film to this point.

General field workplace returns are at the moment 15% forward of the identical level in 2024 although about 24% behind 2019, the final pre-pandemic 12 months, in accordance with Comscore. After “Unbelievable 4” closes out the month of July, the summer time season will proceed with August releases like “The Bare Gun,” “Freakier Friday” and Zach Cregger’s thriller “Weapons.”

“This weekend is a breather between the 2 large superhero openings,” says David A. Gross, who runs the FranchiseRe film consulting agency. “The present lineup in theaters is powerful, with a broad number of huge titles together with superheroes, motion, monsters, horror and animation.”

Now Hollywood simply wants audiences to proceed exhibiting as much as theaters.