supergirl, the second movie the updated DC Studios, had a less than stellar opening weekendand could result in a significant financial loss for its parent company, Warner Bros. A new report from Variety says that the movie, starring Milly Alcock and Jason Momoa, could lose almost 100 million dollars.
The math works like this. According to the business, the film cost $170 million, $120 million to market and has a breakeven point of about $300 million. The film’s $68 million opening weekend worldwide suggests it will end up making around $200 million by the end of its run, hence the $100 million loss estimate. However, if the film doesn’t gross $200 million worldwide, the loss could be even greater. And with movies like Minions and Monsters, The Odyssey, and Spider-Man: New Day Along the way, it will be a difficult climb to get there.
“While supergirl “It did not meet our box office expectations, it is just one component of a broader, long-term strategy at DC Studios that we remain confident in,” said DC Studios co-chairman and co-CEO Peter Safran. The New York Times.
That long-term strategy continues later this summer with Lanterns on HBO Max, clay face in theaters in October, and then next summer with James Gunn’s next film. Superman continuation, The man of tomorrowwhich is now filming. It is expected that this film will recover not only all the characters of Supermanbut Supergirl and Krypto from this one too. It will also see Superman and Lex Luthor team up to take on a big, bad galactic villain in Brainiac, and is highly rumored to feature a role for Wonder Woman. Whether or not this last part is true, it suggests that although supergirl It’s going to be a costly failure, things keep moving forward and growing.
You also have to remember that movie studios are designed for this kind of thing. Yes, it’s brutal to think that $100 million could be lost on a movie, but the studio also made more than $4 billion from its movies in 2025. It’s not all up to supergirl or even DC. While the new Bad dead, DunHey practical magic Not all movies do the same. But either way, the strategy obviously isn’t for movies that cost more than $200 million to lose money, so you can be sure there will be many, many meetings at Warner Bros. this week.
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