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BLUE BEETLE Wins, But Low

Blue Beetle has done it! It has dethroned Barbie. But… wait! It is not all good news for Warner Bros. as Blue Beetle opened to an estimated $25.4 in North America and a further $18 million in 63 markets overseas. A global launch of $43.4 million is low. Domestically, it is behind the early tracking estimates of between $28-32 million. This is the second-lowest opening of the so-called Snyderverse.

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Only Wonder Woman 1984 comes in lower, and that was released at the height of the pandemic with a day-and-date HBO Max release.

On the subject of Blue Beetle, yesterday a random Twitter user claimed Ben Affleck had a cut, comedic voice cameo in the movie and that DC Studios chief James Gunn had removed it. The response, direct from Gunn himself, is that this is pure nonsense:

“I’ve never heard of a Ben Affleck voice cameo in Beetle, nor has Peter, much less cut one. I never heard of one because one never existed (just asked the producers).”

There is a reference to Batman in the movie, the one from George Lopez’s uncle character that caused some comment from fans.

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 and placing it above movies like Fast X in the years release league table.#

Strays flopped, with fifth-place and just $8.3 million domestically, 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 shark sequel has been absolutely winning overseas with those funny foreigners taking it to a total North of $300 million and climbing, all but guaranteeing another sequel. Writers had better start re-reading Steve Alten’s fun, gore-filled books so they can decide which parts to ignore all over again.

A24’s Talk to Me was seventh with a $45 million worldwide haul so far – ten times its budget.

The curious decision to release a Dracula movie in the height of summer continues to haunt Last Voyage of the Demeter which only pulled in $2.5 million in tenth place. Gran Turismo did a solid $22.7 million overseas ahead of a US release.

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