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Dubai Eye
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Dubai Eye
New 'Superman' muscles to $217 million at global box office
A new "Superman" movie from Warner Bros hauled in an estimated $122 million to lead weekend box office charts in the United States and Canada, a strong domestic debut that kicked off a new era for DC comic book heroes on the big screen. The movie that introduces David Corenswet as the Man of Steel added $95 million in international markets for global ticket sales expected to reach $217 million through Sunday, Warner Bros said. Superman is a reboot of the movie franchise based on the hero who debuted in comic books in 1938. The film's performance is critical to the future of Warner Bros and its DC Studios division. Despite a stable of iconic characters including Batman and Wonder Woman, DC has not been able to match the box office power of Walt Disney's Marvel superhero films. The new Superman was written and directed by James Gunn, the filmmaker known for three offbeat "Guardians of the Galaxy" movies for Marvel. Gunn was tapped as co-CEO of DC Studios in 2022, alongside producer Peter Safran, and billed as the hero who could bring consistent success to its film and TV projects. Superman is meant to set the stage for coming DC films including a Supergirl movie next summer and future Batman and Wonder Woman films. "The DC vision is clear, the momentum is real, and I couldn't be more excited for what's ahead," Warner Bros Discovery Chief Executive David Zaslav said in a statement. Superman is one of only three films to debut with more than $100 million in domestic ticket sales in 2025 as moviegoing lingers below pre-pandemic levels. "The domestic number is great. You can't beat a top three opening of the year," Jeff Bock, senior box office analyst at Exhibitor Relations Co, said of the Superman results. He called the international ticket sales "troubling" for a big-budget action movie. The film cost $225 million to make, according to a source with knowledge of the budget. Jeff Goldstein, president of global distribution at Warner Bros., said the studio was thrilled with the domestic response and that the movie about an American icon performed as expected overseas. "We always knew that this would be bigger in the US than international," Goldstein said. "Superman has always been very American-centric." Gunn's take on the character earned positive reviews from critics. Eighty-two per cent of reviews collected on the Rotten Tomatoes website gave the film a thumbs up. Corenswet stars opposite The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel actor Rachel Brosnahan as journalist Lois Lane and Nicholas Hoult as villain Lex Luthor. After box office misfires last year including Furiosa and Joker: Folie à Deux, Warner Bros has notched six No. 1 openings in 2025. The studio boasts this year's highest domestic opening with A Minecraft Movie, which pulled in $162.8 million over its first three days in April. The studio also has delivered hits with Sinners, Final Destination Bloodlines and F1. The director and stars said the film was a tale about kindness and no political message was intended. "It's just a movie guys," actor Nathan Fillion, who plays Green Lantern, told Variety at the film's Los Angeles premiere.
ARN News Center
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- ARN News Center
New 'Superman' muscles to $217 million at global box office
A new "Superman" movie from Warner Bros hauled in an estimated $122 million to lead weekend box office charts in the United States and Canada, a strong domestic debut that kicked off a new era for DC comic book heroes on the big screen. The movie that introduces David Corenswet as the Man of Steel added $95 million in international markets for global ticket sales expected to reach $217 million through Sunday, Warner Bros said. Superman is a reboot of the movie franchise based on the hero who debuted in comic books in 1938. The film's performance is critical to the future of Warner Bros and its DC Studios division. Despite a stable of iconic characters including Batman and Wonder Woman, DC has not been able to match the box office power of Walt Disney's Marvel superhero films. The new Superman was written and directed by James Gunn, the filmmaker known for three offbeat "Guardians of the Galaxy" movies for Marvel. Gunn was tapped as co-CEO of DC Studios in 2022, alongside producer Peter Safran, and billed as the hero who could bring consistent success to its film and TV projects. Superman is meant to set the stage for coming DC films including a Supergirl movie next summer and future Batman and Wonder Woman films. "The DC vision is clear, the momentum is real, and I couldn't be more excited for what's ahead," Warner Bros Discovery Chief Executive David Zaslav said in a statement. Superman is one of only three films to debut with more than $100 million in domestic ticket sales in 2025 as moviegoing lingers below pre-pandemic levels. "The domestic number is great. You can't beat a top three opening of the year," Jeff Bock, senior box office analyst at Exhibitor Relations Co, said of the Superman results. He called the international ticket sales "troubling" for a big-budget action movie. The film cost $225 million to make, according to a source with knowledge of the budget. Jeff Goldstein, president of global distribution at Warner Bros., said the studio was thrilled with the domestic response and that the movie about an American icon performed as expected overseas. "We always knew that this would be bigger in the US than international," Goldstein said. "Superman has always been very American-centric." Gunn's take on the character earned positive reviews from critics. Eighty-two per cent of reviews collected on the Rotten Tomatoes website gave the film a thumbs up. Corenswet stars opposite The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel actor Rachel Brosnahan as journalist Lois Lane and Nicholas Hoult as villain Lex Luthor. After box office misfires last year including Furiosa and Joker: Folie à Deux, Warner Bros has notched six No. 1 openings in 2025. The studio boasts this year's highest domestic opening with A Minecraft Movie, which pulled in $162.8 million over its first three days in April. The studio also has delivered hits with Sinners, Final Destination Bloodlines and F1. The director and stars said the film was a tale about kindness and no political message was intended. "It's just a movie guys," actor Nathan Fillion, who plays Green Lantern, told Variety at the film's Los Angeles premiere.
Business Recorder
14-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Recorder
New ‘Superman' muscles to $217 million at global box office
LOS ANGELES: A new 'Superman' movie from Warner Bros (WBD.O), opens new tab hauled in an estimated $122 million to lead weekend box office charts in the United States and Canada, a strong domestic debut that kicked off a new era for DC comic book heroes on the big screen. The movie that introduces David Corenswet as the Man of Steel added $95 million in international markets for global ticket sales expected to reach $217 million through Sunday, Warner Bros said. 'Superman' is a reboot of the movie franchise based on the hero who debuted in comic books in 1938. The film's performance is critical to the future of Warner Bros and its DC Studios division. Despite a stable of iconic characters including Batman and Wonder Woman, DC has not been able to match the box office power of Walt Disney's (DIS.N), opens new tab Marvel superhero films. The new 'Superman' was written and directed by James Gunn, the filmmaker known for three offbeat 'Guardians of the Galaxy' movies for Marvel. Gunn was tapped as co-CEO of DC Studios in 2022, alongside producer Peter Safran, and billed as the hero who could bring consistent success to its film and TV projects. 'Superman' is meant to set the stage for coming DC films including a 'Supergirl' movie next summer and future Batman and Wonder Woman films. 'The DC vision is clear, the momentum is real, and I couldn't be more excited for what's ahead,' Warner Bros Discovery Chief Executive David Zaslav said in a statement. 'Superman' is one of only three films to debut with more than $100 million in domestic ticket sales in 2025 as moviegoing lingers below pre-pandemic levels. 'The domestic number is great. You can't beat a top three opening of the year,' Jeff Bock, senior box office analyst at Exhibitor Relations Co, said of the 'Superman' results. He called the international ticket sales 'troubling' for a big-budget action movie. The film cost $225 million to make, according to a source with knowledge of the budget. Jeff Goldstein, president of global distribution at Warner Bros., said the studio was thrilled with the domestic response and that the movie about an American icon performed as expected overseas. 'We always knew that this would be bigger in the U.S. than international,' Goldstein said. 'Superman has always been very American-centric.' Gunn's take on the character earned positive reviews from critics. Eighty-two percent of reviews collected on the Rotten Tomatoes website gave the film a thumbs up. Corenswet stars opposite 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' actor Rachel Brosnahan as journalist Lois Lane and Nicholas Hoult as villain Lex Luthor. After box office misfires last year including 'Furiosa' and 'Joker: Folie à Deux,' Warner Bros has notched six No. 1 openings in 2025. The studio boasts this year's highest domestic opening with 'A Minecraft Movie,' which pulled in $162.8 million over its first three days in April. The studio also has delivered hits with 'Sinners,' 'Final Destination Bloodlines' and 'F1.' Some conservative commentators objected to 'Superman' when Gunn said the movie about a refugee from another planet was an immigrant story. U.S. President Donald Trump posted a meme that showed his face in place of Corenswet's on a Superman poster. The director and stars said the film was a tale about kindness and no political message was intended. 'It's just a movie guys,' actor Nathan Fillion, who plays Green Lantern, told Variety at the film's Los Angeles premiere. Year-to-date ticket sales for all movies in the U.S. and Canada hovered 15% above 2024 but 24% below the pre-COVID times of 2019.
Chicago Tribune
11-05-2025
- Politics
- Chicago Tribune
Leo Tran: Vietnam's lessons for America, 50 years after war's end
Half a century after the fall of Saigon, the reverberations of Vietnam continue to be felt in America's debates about foreign policy — from the complications of Ukraine to the larger questions about America's role in the world. The United States and Vietnam, which were bitter enemies for more than three decades, are now bound together by increasingly close economic relations and strategic interests, including opposition to China's rise. Yet this alliance is still shadowed by the unresolved legacy of the Vietnam War — a legacy that, as America's global power wanes, continues to shape what it means to be both Vietnamese and American This developing partnership represents a significant change. However, genuinely coming to terms with the past cannot end at pragmatic cooperation. It requires moving away from a strictly American-centric understanding and coming to grips with the war as the Vietnamese experienced it — as a fight for national liberation, albeit a war tragically caught up in the machinations of a global Cold War. Vietnam is a wound for many Americans: a bloody quagmire, a blot on our conscience, a war that claimed more than 58,000 American lives and shattered faith at home in the good intentions of the government. But if you view Vietnam purely through the prism of American defeat, you risk overlooking the deeper meaning of the war — and its enduring consequences. The failure of America in Vietnam was a failure of political imagination. Terrified of the prospect of communist victory, Washington sabotaged the 1954 Geneva Accords, which had called for national elections, and supported an anti-communist government in the South. In so doing, it contributed to freezing and escalating what might otherwise have remained a limited postcolonial struggle. With greater and greater military engagement, Vietnam turned into a proxy battleground for Cold War hostilities at an enormous human cost. But any honest history must also be forthright about the genuine fears that shaped American policy and the deeper currents of ideology. Admitting American error does not excuse Hanoi of its own obligations. The Communist Party's postwar policies — reeducation camps, political purges, forced collectivization — not only deepened Vietnam's internal wounds but also led to a mass exodus that remade Vietnamese communities around the globe. Policies shaped by that era still influence the political landscape today, and they stand in the way of a true, open effort to reckon with the past. As the country strides ahead economically, the question is: Can the nation, sooner rather than later, come to terms with its past? To Lam, general secretary for Vietnam's Communist Party, has recently written about 'reconciliation' and 'tolerance,' explaining that genuine 'unity' entails 'accepting different perspectives in the spirit of tolerance and respect, to jointly aim for the greater goal: building a peaceful, unified, powerful, civilized, and prosperous Vietnam.' But real healing will take more than rhetoric. It requires making room for a multitude of memories — including those of the diaspora — to coexist, ungated by the official narrative. The lessons of Vietnam are deep for America as well. Not even the strongest army can replace political legitimacy. Conflicts within a region are as complicated as the regions they take place in and can't be reduced to simple ideological categories. And how wars end is as important as how they are fought. The manner in which the war in South Vietnam came to a close — with abrupt withdrawal, broken commitments and implosion — damaged America's status in the world in ways that still echo. Now, as the United States contends with a multipolar world, the Vietnamese ghost lingers still. In Ukraine, we see echoes of the past: a smaller country fighting for its life against a bigger aggressor, with American backing a combination of the practical and the moral. Of course, the contexts are different — Ukraine is a sovereign democracy facing a conventional invasion, not a civil war driven by Cold War proxy rivalries. But the quandaries of loyalty, character and honor reverberate eerily. As we navigate this new era, it is worth remembering the lessons of Vietnam: the price of intervention, the limits of power and the ongoing importance of moral clarity. It's a clarity often obscured by the fog of that distant, unfinished war.
NDTV
03-05-2025
- Politics
- NDTV
Kamala Harris, Gulf Of Mexico: White House Shares 4 "Simple Truths" Post
The White House has shared a post on its official X (formerly Twitter) page about the 'four simple truths', featuring a collage of Democrat Kamala Harris, Gulf Of Mexico and news outlet NPR, among others. Evidently, the images are of people or entities whose actions or viewpoints the US President Donald Trump and his administration disagree with. Let's take a look at each of the four images: 1) Kamala Harris The first photo features US Vice President Kamala Harris, with a text overlay that read, 'Not President.' The timing of this post is significant, coming shortly after Ms Harris' first major speech since losing the US Presidential elections in November 2024. In her speech a couple of days ago, she criticised Donald Trump. She described the US President's economic policies, particularly his sweeping tariffs, as the catalyst for what she labelled the 'greatest man-made economic crisis' in modern history, reported CNN. She also warned that Donald Trump's ongoing conflicts with the judiciary were pushing the nation towards a constitutional crisis. 2) Kilmar Abrego Garcia The next image highlights Kilmar Abrego Garcia, with the text 'Not a 'Maryland Man'". Mr Garcia, a father of three, was living in Maryland when he was deported to El Salvador, a decision that has sparked controversy. The Donald Trump administration said that Mr Garcia was a member of the violent MS-13 gang. Garcia's family and legal representatives dispute these accusations, maintaining that he is innocent with no criminal convictions in the US. He is currently being held in a prison, while his family continues to fight for his return. 3) NPR The next image shows the NPR logo, with the text 'Not real news". This reference stems from President Donald Trump's executive order signed on May 1, which sought to reduce public subsidies for NPR. Mr Trump accused the network of bias and propagating 'radical, woke propaganda disguised as 'news,'' reported news agency Reuters. The executive order directed the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other federal agencies to cease federal funding for NPR and PBS, as well as to eliminate indirect sources of taxpayer funding. 4) Gulf of Mexico The final image shows a water body on a map, with the caption 'Not Gulf of Mexico". This section alludes to an executive order issued by President Donald Trump on his first day in office to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the 'Gulf of America.' The order also declared February 9 as 'Gulf of America Day". This act was symbolic of Donald Trump's inclination to assert a more nationalistic and American-centric approach to geographical and cultural identities Take a look at the post here: Four simple truths... — The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 2, 2025 The post stands out for its stark visuals and pointed messaging, clearly targeting individuals and institutions frequently criticised by Donald Trump. Each image appears to reinforce the administration's stance on key figures and issues, aligning with Trump's ongoing narrative since returning to office.
