Will it be the highest grossing film of 2025?

No matter how much we are in the final stretch of the awards circuit arguing which ones will be the best movies of 2024the future of superhero cinema shone with its own light last week through a simple teaser trailer. We talk of course about new superman by David Corenswet with whom James Gunn plans to build a whole garden of feature films and series that will build a DC universe after everything we saw with Zack Snyder. Warner thus says goodbye to the solemnity and lack of humor in its comic adaptations, betting on color and goodness of a character who, above all, represents a symbol of hope. At the moment, we do not know if the reboot of the character created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster will be a guaranteed hit at the box office. But for now, the numbers harvested The promotional material leaves no room for doubt.

With absolute fans and confessed detractors on social networks, the new Superman will cause many philias and phobias. Among other things, because there are still many acolytes who believe that by campaigning on networks they will get Warner Bros to put it back in Snyder's hands. his superhero license. But nothing could be further from the truth, this Clark Kent will be fun and best of all: he will introduce us to Krypto, the superdog, for the first time in a live action movie. Thus, whether to praise it, to criticize it or to focus on all those details, viewers have watched the preview over and over again to the point where Gunn himself has done the math and communicated the data of the teaser on their social networks. But how many views does the first approximation of the red-caped hero have on the internet?

A new record-breaking Superman

According to James Gunn, his new Superman would have broken several records in the first days since the publication of the preview. This is what he himself said in his Instagram account: «Krypto really brought us home. With more than 250 million views and one million posts on social networks, Superman “It is officially the most viewed and most talked about trailer in the history of both DC and Warner Bros.,” wrote the head of Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy in his post. Immediately afterwards, the filmmaker thanked the fans for their passion, predicting a major premiere in 2025.

«This is thanks to all of you. Thank you! We are incredibly grateful and, above all, excited to share this film with you in July. Happy holidays!

Numbers are not a guarantee of anything, but ask them. Joker: Folie à Deuxwhich had in its trailer more than 150 million views in the first 24 hours and after that, it was a disaster on the billboard. However, it is a great indication of the interest and hype widespread in the world of comics. For example, Deadpool and Wolverine achieved 365 million views the first day and it has been-only behind Inside out 2-the highest grossing film of the year. Therefore, Superman is expected to be the flagship film of the commercial exhibition in 2025.

A month full of premieres

Superman will hit theaters next July 11, 2025. Of course, she won't do it alone. That month there will be another phenomenon of the genre in the main competitor. A few weeks later, Marvel will screen the reboot of The fantastic four. And if this were not enough, on those days it will also appear on the billboard Jurassic World: Rebirth. A set of blockbusters that could turn that summer into one of the highest grossing ones in memory.

Starring Corenswet, the new Superman will be very well accompanied by a casting full of well-known young stars. Rachel Brosnahan y Nicholas Hoult They complete the main cast, while Sara Sampaio, Skyler Gisondo, Edi Gathegi, María Gabriela de Faría, Nathan Fillon, Isabela Merced, Anthony Carrigan and Pruitt Taylor Vince, make up the rest of the supporting cast. Warner Bros. needs this first step in its new organization chart of the subgenre have great success so that everything that comes after. Of course, 2025 will be a litmus test to know if the public still wants to continue watching the stories of these powerful and heroic characters.