James Gunn’s Superman laid an egg this weekend in China despite the director’s fawning over the communist nation while promoting the film, that played in over 55,000 Middle Kingdom screens.

The big budget reboot is crucially important to the future of the DC universe of films. It opened fairly strong on Friday, but immediately tumbled to seventh place by Sunday. It is a terrible fall from grace, giving Superman one of the worst opening weekends in China of any superhero film in modern history.

The film debuted at number three in the Chinese market and brought in $2.4 million on Friday. But by Saturday it quickly fell to fifth place. The film…

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