Superman in the Box Office
Purpose: This page's goal is to help Superman fans to research the box office data and level of financial success of the movie Superman (2025), specifically in context compared to other DC and Superman movies historically. The page will have tables, figures, and comments to illustrate how Superman (2025) has done at different points in time, as well as overall.
Data Sub-Genre Focus: Superman (2025) Performance in the Box Office
Web Resources
Figure 1: All Releases Superman
Source: Box Office Mojo
Beginning with a quick overview from Box Office Mojo which houses more general important information, one of the most important statistics for finding box office revenue is the domestic, international, and worldwide total revenue.
The majority of the income comes from the US domestically, with 57.7% ($352,302,360) of the total worldwide revenue ($612,702,360).
About a third of the domestic profit came from the domestic opening.
Figure 5: Box Office Top 10 Territories (USD)
Source: The Numbers
Looking closer at the international box office with this chart from The Numbers, which provides much more detailed statistics on specific movie finances, the country to contribute most to the profit is the United Kingdom by a margin of about 15 million dollars to the next territory with the largest revenue, Mexico.
France, Australia, and Brazil all have very similar revenues, with about 16 million dollars each.
Figure 4: Weekend Box Office Performance
Source: The Numbers
Since weekends generally have the majority of ticket sales, they are used in this chart as a marker to judge overall profit.
The first opening weekend was by far the most profitable, with a total gross revenue of $125,021,735.
Every week, the profit decreases by a significant amount, starting at about 50%, but the amount the profit decreases by shrinks as time goes on.
The overall movie ranking generally decreased as time went on, with an exception for the second week, where the rank remained in first place, and the sixth week, remaining in 6th place.
Figure 2: See how much DC movies have earned on opening weekends since 2000
Source: WLKY
WLKY uses much of the same data as The Numbers but demonstrates the data more visually through interactive graphs. By hovering over the dots, users can view the opening weekend revenue of the different DC movies released, along with the adjusted amount for inflation. The opening weekend is a good predictor for how well the movie did overall, and also demonstrates the amount the movie was hyped up. By comparing the dots overall, the user is able to compare Superman (2025) to DC movies in general, and by using the hover function they can do so for more specific movies, like The Flash.
DC movies seem to have a slight decrease in opening weekend revenue over time, with 2016 having a larger concentration of extremely profitable movies, while 2022-2024 has a concentration of movies that have much smaller profits.
While Superman is one of the most profitable DC movies within the past five years, it does not quite compare to the movies from the era of 2016 DC, which average much larger revenues.
Figure 3: How did "Superman" perform on opening weekend?
Source: WLKY
This chart is also interactive, and when the user hovers over the different diamonds, they show the exact amount made for that particular movie on opening weekend, as well as the worldwide box office data. In this way, a user can directly compare the financial success of specific past Superman movies to Superman (2025).
The most recent superman movie appears to be on trend for the average amount of profit superman movies generate, which is around 100-150 million dollars, considering inflation.
While the movie is not unsuccessful, the movie has performed quite average in the box office for superman movies past the year 2000.
Figure 6: Domestic Cumulative Box Office Records
Source: The Numbers
As stated before, many of these graphs have been adjusted for inflation. Here we can see the effects of inflation more directly through the difference in rankings.
While the Superman movie is very high on the All Time Domestic Box Office, placing 75th overall, this extreme seems mostly due to inflation, since it drops 187 places when inflation is taken into consideration.
However, it is still an extremely profitable movie for its time, seeing as it placed 3rd for this year's box office alone, which shouldn’t be affected by inflation. One possible reason is that the overall interest in seeing movies in theaters in general is decreasing, creating a cap for how much a movie can reasonably make compared to the past.
Conclusion
While Superman was certainly a box office success compared to other movies in general, it is clear that the movie is not revolutionary when it is compared to other Superman movies or DC movies. One hit that it takes is because of inflation, which severely changes the value of the money it has made, even if it is technically more than its predecessors. Another hit could possibly be the general decrease in DC movie profits, seeing a trend of less money being made per movie. To understand more closely the true cause of the decline, it would be good to research whether superhero movies or theater tickets are also becoming less profitable, which would likely affect how well a superman movie would do financially. Another place to research would be for revenue made from streaming platforms, and whether the ratio of revenue a movie gets from these platforms has increased. Perhaps more people are interested in streaming the movie as opposed to watching it in theaters.
Citations
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Jennemann, Annie. “‘Superman’ Opening Weekend Box Office Hits $122 Million. How Does That Compare to Past DC Movies?” WLKY, 14 July 2025,
www.wlky.com/article/superman-opening-weekend-box-office-2025/65402490.
Rubin, Rebecca. “‘Superman’ Soars to $125 Million, Third-Biggest Box Office Opening Weekend of 2025.” Variety, Variety, 14 July 2025,
variety.com/2025/film/box-office/superman-box-office-opening-weekend-1236459080/.
“Superman (2025) - Box Office and Financial Information.” The Numbers,
www.the-numbers.com/movie/Superman-(2025). Accessed 5 Sept. 2025.
“Superman.” Box Office Mojo,
www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt5950044/?ref_=bo_tt_tab#tabs. Accessed 5 Sept. 2025.