Superman is dominating a crowded home field workplace subject. All through July up to now, there has solely been one main vast launch per weekend, with Jurassic World Rebirth kicking off the month and James Gunn’s Superman debuting on July 11. Nevertheless, this isn’t the case for the weekend of July 18, which occupies a lull between superhero film releases.
Forward of the upcoming debut of Marvel’s The Unbelievable 4: First Steps on July 25, three main releases are jockeying for consideration within the interim. These titles are the Ari Aster satirical COVID Western Eddington, the slasher legacy sequel I Know What You Did Final Summer season, and the household franchise installment Smurfs.
Per Deadline, as of Saturday morning, Superman is projected to take No. 1 on the home field workplace for the second weekend in a row with a 3-day sophomore weekend haul of $57 million. This provides it a cumulative haul that sees it changing into simply the seventh film of 2025 to move the $200 million home milestone.
Superman‘s weekend 2 drop of 54% can be the very best for the superhero style up to now in 2025, beating Marvel’s Thunderbolts* (-56%) and Captain America: Courageous New World (-68%).
In the meantime, the brand new releases are failing to compete wherever close to that stage. Smurfs is projected to debut with $12 million. I Know What You Did Final Summer season is barely poised to return in barely greater, scraping collectively a 3-day debut between $13 and $14 million, whereas Eddington is ready to open with simply $4.8 million.
What This Means For The Weekend’s New Releases
As a result of 2025’s I Know What You Did Final Summer season solely has a reported funds of $18 million, the film is probably going on monitor to show a revenue by the tip of its theatrical run. Nevertheless, this opening weekend continues to be a foul signal for the four-film horror franchise.
It will likely be coming in beneath the debut weekends of each earlier installments within the franchise that obtained theatrical releases. The franchise’s earlier low was the unique 1997 film, which had a 3-day debut of $15.8 million. Whereas it exceeds the legacy sequel’s debut even within the uncooked numbers, when adjusted for inflation that complete involves roughly $31.5 million.
Beneath, see a breakdown of the field workplace efficiency of the I Know What You Did Final Summer season motion pictures:
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Title |
Home Debut |
Worldwide Field Workplace |
|---|---|---|
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I Know What You Did Final Summer season (1997) |
$15.8 million |
$125.2 million |
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I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer season (1998) |
$16.5 million |
$40 million |
Nevertheless, the outlook is much more dour for Smurfs and Eddington, which have much more floor to cowl. Along with opening beneath I Know What You Did Final Summer season, each motion pictures have significantly greater worth tags. The household outing comes with a reported funds of $58 million, whereas the Ari Aster film reportedly price $25 million.
Whereas Smurfs might have lengthy legs in theaters, as do many household motion pictures, it might additionally make up for any deficit with merchandising. Eddington‘s prospects are extra opaque, nonetheless.
It has not less than exceeded any particular person weekend of Ari Aster’s earlier film, 2023’s Beau is Afraid, which grossed $12.3 million in opposition to a reported $35 million funds. Nevertheless, even when it earns double the gross of Beau, it’ll simply barely make its funds again, not to mention hit its estimated break-even level, which may very well be as excessive as $62.5 million.
Our Take On The Weekend Field Workplace
July Wants To Wait For One other Blockbuster
The truth that the weekend’s three new releases premiered between the debuts of two superhero tentpoles implies that studios and distributors most certainly by no means anticipated any of them to be main summer season blockbusters. Nevertheless, these unimpressive opening weekends imply that the upcoming Unbelievable 4: First Steps might sweep them virtually completely off the board when it debuts.
Whereas July shall be propped up by Unbelievable 4, Jurassic World Rebirth, and Superman, the brand new releases be a part of an unlucky roster of mid-level summer season 2025 debuts which have made much less of an impression on audiences than they most likely ought to have, which is a listing that features Karate Child: Legends, Ballerina, Elio, and M3GAN 2.0.
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Signal Up
Supply: Deadline
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Superman
9/10
- Launch Date
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July 9, 2025
- Runtime
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130 minutes
- Producers
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Lars P. Winther, Nik Korda, Peter Safran
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I Know What You Did Final Summer season
4/10
- Launch Date
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July 18, 2025
- Runtime
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100 minutes
- Director
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Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
- Writers
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Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, Sam Lansky
- Producers
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Neal H. Moritz
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Madelyn Cline
Danica Richards
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Chase Sui Wonders
Ava Brucks
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Eddington
6/10
- Launch Date
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July 18, 2025
- Runtime
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149 minutes
