How 'Man of Steel' Made $21million Debut Despite Mixed Reviews
The new Superman
flick Man of Steel made $21 million at late night screenings, Warner Bros.
announced this week.
This haul included
$12 million from a special 7 p.m. screening, in a ticket package arrangement
with retailer Walmart.
Man of Steel's
overnight sales put it above those of recent huge hits Iron Man 3 in May ($15.6
million) and The Avengers last year ($18.7 million), according to Variety.
However, the Superman sales were still well below Thursday overnight sales from
last July's The Dark Night Rises, which made $30 million.
The film is
expected to make somewhere between $90 and $100 million in weekend sales,
though Warner Bros. is keeping their estimates more modest by predicting in the
low $80 millions.
In addition to the United States, the film opened in 24
international markets, including Mexico,
South Korea, and the United Kingdom.
The film has already set an opening day record in the Philippines by
making $1.7 million on Wednesday -- 90 percent of the local market share.
The film's mixed
reviews don't seem to have damaged its box office sales: movie review
aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes currently has the film ranked at 59%, only
slightly under the website's "fresh" rating of 60%.
Even some of the
positive reviews of Man of Steel were qualified.
Peter Travers
called the film "a bumpy ride for sure" in his Rolling Stone review
while Globe and Mail critic Liam Lacey said the film "gets exhaustingly bombastic
although, sequence by sequence," although he did still consider it worth
seeing.
Tom Long of The
Detroit News said the film "packs quite a wallop" but added that it
had perhaps " a few too many wallops."
NPR critic Glen
Weldon -- a veritable expert on the superhero who published his book Superman:
The Unauthorized Biography in April -- did not take kindly to the film.
"Man of
Steel's violence doesn't escalate," Weldon wrote. "It simply,
tediously, iterates. We keep waiting to thrill, to exult, to cheer our hero on.
When the lights come up, we're still waiting."
Culled from ENSTARS
Don't forget to follow me on Twitter @simplysamad for more exciting gist, photos, interviews, reviews, jokes, quotes and other entertaining content | BB pin: 267F2633
Comments
Post a Comment
Please Leave a comment