James Gunn’s steel man has just crossed a milestone. Less than a month after its release, James Gunn’s film set up a new record for the character in the United States. He is officially the film that collected the most green tickets in the country of Uncle Sam. It now displays a national box office of $ 292.4 million. Man of Steelproduced by Zack Snyder and his 291 million generated in 2013 has just been dethroned … in theory.
Indeed, the figures are not annexed to inflation and therefore do not take into account the increase in the Price of the ticket. An increase that upsets rankings at the world box office. With adjustment, You might as well take the wind and its $ 402 million collected when it was released in 1939 remains far ahead Avatar and its 2.9 billion in 2009. With adjustment, the two films display real box-offices from 4.45 and 4.05 billion.
According to data shared by The Numbersthe average price of film ticket in the United States has increased by 68% in the past 20 years. It was $ 6.21 in 2004 and is now $ 10.78. In 2013, it is estimated that spectators paid an average of $ 7.96 For a session. We can thus estimate that 36.5 million spectators went to theaters to see Henry Cavill In his first adventures against 27.12 million for David Corenswet.
Man of Steel therefore attracted more spectators to his native land than Superman, 9.45 million more. The fact remains that the career of Krypton’s new son in the cinema is far from over, the film has several weeks to be illustrated as the big winner. It will have to add $ 101.9 million to its national box office To outdo his elder.
A DCU that takes off all the same
If the DCU of James Gunn fascinates in theory less than the DCEU in his early days, everything is not played for the franchise. Indeed, if Man of Steel was a great success, Batman v Superman even more, it is from the exit of Justice League That things started derailed for the stamp. Despite the promise of high -flying entertainment, Snyder’s film and finished by Joss Whedon only collected $ 661 million on the international scene. Aquaman was a success with more than a billion before things really run vinegar with a Shazam! disappointing (367 million) and a Birds of Prey went unnoticed (205 million).
At the same time, the obvious domination of Marvel on the genre seemed to condemn DC Studios to be only a minor cinematographic universe on the scale of the international scene. With his DCU, James Gunn leaves on new bases but also with the reputation of his predecessors as an anvil. At a period when the genre no longer fascinates as much, that the public experiences a certain distrust as soon as it is a question of CAP and tights. It remains to be seen now if, in 2026 with SupergirlJames Gunn will transform the essay in the cinema. The heroine does not have the popularity of Clark Kent on a global scale and could experience difficulties in bringing together in the same way.
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