Supergirl, 2026
Predictions of a $55 million opening for Supergirl – MSN Deadline Hollywood
Related: "Milly Alcock’s ‘punk rock’ Supergirl takes flight as DC bets big on the Woman of Tomorrow" Washington Post
It's gotten pretty easy to bet against superhero movies, too many have failed in the last years. A tragic irony will be that Hollywood, seeing the money being made from the earlier superhero films, have moved forward to blow all the profits on those movies on sequels and reboots that don't make money but just cost money.
But Supergirl is only marginally a sequel (to 2025's Superman), and though there was an earlier Supergirl movie (1984), there's no resounding footprint of expectation for what's coming when Supergirl relases on June 26.
But... going by the trailers, this James Gunn superhero movie leans hard on "attitude" and this Supergirl (though directed by someone else) is still in the wheelhouse of that approach. If the film can deliver with a legit story to back up the swagger, that'd be a nice way for DC to break out of the string of losers they've been shipping to the screen.
The talk of "superhero fatigue" that crops up when super-movies are gliding to subpar earnings (or just crashing and burning) seems to correspond to superhero films that are thin on story and use the same tricks and plot elements of earlier films. The criticism that keeps getting heaped on James Gunn is "what, another Guardians of the Galaxy rip-off?"
In his defence, Gunn handles team dynamics in films well. He is able to marshall a lot of characters in a story and keep them distinct instead of blurring together. He should be ideal for superhero-team movies (which is what the 2025 Superman really was), but somehow that poor DCU film was overmade and a little stupid. Maybe Supergirl will be different.
At the door of the Hot Topic mall store "Truth, justice, whatever" June 9, 2026
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Original page June 29, 2026