After four uninterrupted weekends and almost an entire month as the No. 1 movie at the domestic box office, Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" has finally been bumped down to second place by the arrival of a plucky young hero in a super-suit. "Blue Beetle," directed by Ángel Manuel Soto and starring Xolo Maridueña ("Cobra Kai") in the title role, is the third of four DC Universe movies releasing in 2023, and is on track for a $25-27 million opening weekend after grossing $10 million on Friday (including Thursday previews), according to The Hollywood Reporter.
That's a smaller opening weekend than "Shazam! Fury of the Gods" ($30.1 million), "The Flash" ($55 million), or last year's "Black Adam" ($67 million), though "Blue Beetle" does also have the smallest budget out of all of those movies at $104 million. The film was originally developed as a direct-to-streaming release for HBO Max (since rebranded as simply "Max"), but Soto told The...
That's a smaller opening weekend than "Shazam! Fury of the Gods" ($30.1 million), "The Flash" ($55 million), or last year's "Black Adam" ($67 million), though "Blue Beetle" does also have the smallest budget out of all of those movies at $104 million. The film was originally developed as a direct-to-streaming release for HBO Max (since rebranded as simply "Max"), but Soto told The...
- 8/19/2023
- by Hannah Shaw-Williams
- Slash Film
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