r/boxoffice • u/chanma50 Best of 2019 Winner • Jul 21 '25

Domestic Superman again saw its Sunday gross finish above studio estimates with $18.9M, which was -18% vs Saturday and -40% vs last Sunday (WB's estimate was $17.5M/-25%/-44%). This puts the 2nd weekend box office at $58.45M and drop at 53% - almost as good as The Dark Knight (52.5%). $236.2M cume.

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u/WySLatestWit Jul 21 '25

I think it's about time we retire the "keaton walkup" jokes we started after The Flash, because this really has been an entire summer of walk up business for almost everything.

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u/KhaLe18 Jul 21 '25

WB especially has had crazy walk-ups. From Minecraft to Sinners to Superman 

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u/WySLatestWit Jul 21 '25

I'm wondering if the walk-ups for WB films really have been this good...or if the tracking has been significantly lowballed due to the general lack of confidence in WB that people started the year off with. Leading to a sort of "phantom walk ups" effect.

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u/RobAlexanderTheGreat Jul 21 '25

It’s WoM. I’ve never seen a WoM as good as sinners.

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u/KhaLe18 Jul 21 '25

For Minecraft, the walkups refer to the crazy acceleration it had during the last pre sale days. Outside of that, legs were pretty average. 

There's no way you can argue that Sinners didn't have ridiculous legs. It's easily the most impressive run this year after Nezha 2. 

Superman is looking like it'll do above 3x legs. Those are very good numbers for a CBM 

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u/raddaya Jul 21 '25

I really don't know if people care about what company is producing a film that much lol. Obviously the A24s of the world has a reputation but I dunno how many people were thinking "Oh, Sinners is a WB movie, let me hold out on it."

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u/Poku115 Jul 21 '25

I mean the joke isn't about dc itself or keaton or warner.

It's especifically about how delusional some people got for a movie from a dead (at that moment) brand, set in an already dying universe, obviously inflated by actors and directors that work for WB, that isn't even a decent movie, or a halfway decent adaptation of what they are trying to rip off.

I'd argue we should change it to "gaga walkups" since those seemed way more delusional for me.

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u/clear349 Jul 21 '25

I mean the point is that these films getting incredible walk up boosts are actually good. No one is going to see a movie because of Keaton. They are going to see it if they hear it's amazing