Image: Warner Bros.
There’s very little Flash can’t overtake, but it seems audience interest is one of those things. The Flash film, which grossed well below expectations at $55 million, is well below the $75 million expected/optimistically hoped for by Warner Bros. But if that was Flash’s stumble, now the hero has fallen on his face.
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While the WB hoped the film would drop just 55 percent of ticket sales in its second week, various outlets are reporting that domestic ticket sales fell a whopping 72 percent, meaning The Flash grossed just $15.3 million this weekend. grossed dollars. That puts him – a major superhero and budding summer blockbuster – in third place behind Pixar’s Elemental and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, with the latter reclaiming its spot at #1. Overall, The Flash grossed a meager US$87 million domestically and a dismal US$211 million worldwide. As THR gruffly puts it, the film “received a blanket rejection from audiences.”
Uff. That’s probably why Fandango is already offering a buy-one-get-one-free offer for flash movie tickets:
Image: Warner Bros./Fandango
To make matters worse, the entire film was also leaked on Twitter (and probably elsewhere by now). But unless you want to track it down, or aren’t suspicious of online piracy, I wouldn’t worry – if this continues, it looks like The Flash will get to Max much, much sooner than expected.
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