DC’s girlboss Supergirl movie has ended its theatrical run as a historic and epic failure.
After a six-week run, this stinker grossed a pathetic $72 million domestic and an even more pathetic $53.8 million overseas. That brings its global total to $126 million.
That’s it. That’s all the money this dead-cat-bounce is gonna make in theaters, even after a ton of publicity, an attachment to one of the most popular superheroes ever, and a wide release in 3,600 U.S. theaters along with thousands of screens more around the globe.
If you figure in inflation, the $38 million that Howard the Duck grossed in 1986 adds up to $116 million today, which is only $9 million less than Supergirl. That’s hilarious.
Halle Berry’s 2004 catastrophe, Catwoman, grossed $82.4 million at the time, which adds up to $146 million in today’s dollars, or $20 million more than Supergirl.
Morbius grossed $167.4 million globally in 2022.
Joker: Folie à Deux grossed $207.5 million planet-wide in 2024.
Never in a million years did I expect Supergirl to flop this hard. Had Supergirl grossed that $125 million worldwide on its opening weekend, that would have been considered a disappointment. Instead, that’s all it made during its entire run.
That’s nuts.
So how much money did Supergirl lose?
The production and promotion costs add up to around $300 million. Warner Bros. will only receive about $70 million of that $125 million gross. That’s a loss of over $200 million.
Tee hee.
Honestly, who is this girlboss shit made for?
How was a plain-looking Supergirl supposed to attract the actual customer base for comic book movies, which is young guys?
Supergirl’s failure does not surprise me, only the size of it. I also wasn’t surprised that the handling of the character was bungled so badly. Everyone who lives in the real world knows Supergirl should have been played by a knock-out beauty, the kind of actress guys fall in love with. But for some retarded reason, Warner Bros. Discovery handed the entire DC franchise over to James Gunn, a woketard nerd who knows nothing about Normal People, and who can only remake Guardians of the Galaxy over and over again.
A red flag should have gone up when his 2025 Superman only made $619 million globally. What’s more, rather than right the ship by replacing Gunn, Warner Bros. chose instead to spread the lie that Superman was profitable, when it most certainly was not.
What has happened to movie studios when they put more effort into writing a fictional story about how a movie made money than into writing a decent Superman movie?
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