Weekend Box Office Reports: Superman Stumbles

By: Karl Schneider
Date: Monday, July 03, 2006

Any movie that has a price tag over $300 million needs to impress at the box office. We knew we could be in for disappointment when the Wednesday numbers came in, and that has proved true.

SUPERMAN RETURNS has taken its first bow in theaters and came away with just over $52 million for the weekend. The gross is totally plain, and very uninspiring. Can the movie be called a flop? No, it has made $84 million over the first 5 days and strong international numbers will help, but it will go down as a disappointment unless it can somehow find the legs that BATMAN BEGINS did. Next weekend will tell the tale for this movie.

THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA also opened this weekend and managed to rake in $27 million for the weekend. The gross is higher than expected and very solid.

The good opening for PRADA helped CLICK drop over 50% for the weekend, down to $19 million. CARS continues to hold well.

The remaining numbers are as boring and bland as the ones SUPERMAN RETURNS turned in so until next week ...

1 - Superman Returns - $52,150,000 ($84,208,000)
2 - The Devil Wears Prada - $27,000,000 ($27,000,000)
3 - Click - $19,400,000 ($77,918,000)
4 - Cars - $14,035,000 ($182,056,000)
5 - Nacho Libre - $6,186,000 ($64,959,000)
6 - The Lake House - $4,510,000 ($38,735,000)
7 - The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift - $4,432,000 ($51,666,000)
8 - Waist Deep - $3,312,000 ($15,175,000)
9 - The Break-Up - $2,830,000 ($110,069,000)
10 - The Da Vinci Code - $2,300,000 ($209,793,000)