3 Summer Tentpoles Continue To Crash at Box Office With Supergirl

Three much-hyped tentpoles, along with Supergirl, collapsed under the weight of bloated budgets and box office indifference this weekend. It’s an addition to a brutal season that has seen several highly anticipated movies fail to break even.

Masters of the Universe, Disclosure Day and Star Wars continue to bomb

Craig Gillespie’s Supergirl crash-landed with a dismal $38 million domestic opening at the box office. It needed a commanding launch to justify the reportedly net production spend pegged between $170 million and $186 million (via Deadline). Instead, it posted the worst opening for any DCU movie since James Gunn took creative control.

On Saturday, ticket sales cratered 41% from Friday’s preview-inflated number, landing at $10.7 million. The global haul sits at $68 million, far below the $300 million-plus number Warner Bros. reportedly needs just to break even.

Meanwhile, Masters of the Universe continues its quiet, costly fade. Travis Knight’s fantasy epic scraped together $2.2 million in its latest frame, pushing its domestic cume to $61.9 million. Nicholas Galitzine leads a sprawling cast that includes Camila Mendes, Alison Brie, Jared Leto, and Idris Elba. Now, the film sits nowhere near the double-budget threshold. Summer counterprogramming buried it early, and no late legs have materialized.

Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day tells a slightly different story. The sci-fi drama added $8.1 million domestically, lifting its total to $94.3 million. Universal kept costs tighter on this one, banking on Spielberg’s name, Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, and Colman Domingo to draw adults curious about the UFO disclosure arc. A leaner budget means the film avoids the outright disaster zone occupied by its weekend companions.

Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian and Grogu rounded out the carnage with $1.6 million, a sum that brings its domestic tally to $175.2 million. That number once guaranteed celebration. Today, it underscores how far the Star Wars theatrical brand has drifted from its imperial phase. It seems Pedro Pascal and Sigourney Weaver could not reverse the current.

(Source: Box Office Mojo)

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