After four weekends of pink, the box office is going blue.
Despite a muted opening, DC Studios’ “Blue Beetle” looks to dethrone fellow Warner Bros.
release “Barbie” after the hot-pink comedy spent nearly a month atop domestic charts.Debuting in 3,871 locations, the Ángel Manuel Soto-directed “Blue Beetle” earned $10 million on its opening day, a figure that includes $3.3 million from previews.
It’s not a dazzling figure for the superhero entry, which had forecast a touchdown between $25 million and $33 million heading into the weekend.
The film’s debut looks to fall behind that of this year’s earlier DC entry “Shazam! Fury of the Gods,” which debuted to $30.1 million before collapsing for a $57.6 million finish.The “Shazam!” sequel was universally regarded as a disappointment — mediocre reviews, plus a final gross totaling roughly one third of the original’s — and it marked an inauspicious start for the last slate of DC Studios…
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