Wonder Woman Destroys The Mummy at the Domestic Box Office
The Highest DCEU Holdover Yet
By Alex Burns
Warner Bros. Pictures scored another win with a strong second weekend for Wonder Woman. The Patty Jenkin's film is already a critical hit and is now really showing off it's appeal with audiences, enjoying a second weekend haul of $57 million at the domestic box office. What makes this even more impressive for the film is the fact that it held off strong competition in the form of Universal's The Mummy starring Tom Cruise. The rebooted monster movie could only muster a poultry $32.2 million in it's opening weekend and will have to rely on international performance to pick up the slack.
Wonder Woman only dropped 45% in the second weekend and this marks the strongest holdover for a DCEU movie so far. Suicide Squad, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Man of Steel all experienced severe drops above 65% and were met with much less favourable reviews than Wonder Woman has garnered.
Wonder Woman also added $58.1 million from 57 international markets for an overall global box office of $435 million and counting, how high can this superhero fly? it will be interesting to find out.
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CBS Issue Full Season Order For 'Supergirl'
DC Comics Success on TV Continues
By Alex Burns
CBS have announce that the new 'Supergirl' series has received a full season order from the powerhouse network. After a strong season premier there was some uncertainty after the ratings dipped for the following episodes on Monday nights but after boasting a pretty impressive 11.24 million in average viewership the DC Comics adaptation has made the grade for a full season.
Twenty-four-year-old Kara Zor-El (Melissa Benoist), who was taken in by the Danvers family when she was 13 after being sent away from Krypton, must learn to embrace her powers after previously hiding them.The Danvers family teaches Kara to be careful with her powers, until she has to reveal them during an unexpected disaster, setting her on her journey of heroism even when it comes to protecting National City. Kara discovers that hundreds of the criminals her mother Alura Zor-El (Laura Benanti) prosecuted on Krypton are hiding on Earth, including her mother's twin sister Astra (also played by Benanti), who seeks to rule the world. In addition, Kara learns that her new ally, Hank Henshaw (David Harewood), may have secret agendas of his own. She is also being targeted by Earth's criminals as the result of her relation to another Kryptonian survivor: Superman. She is aided by a few close friends and family who guard her secrets, which also serves as a major plot in high tech mogul Maxwell Lord's (Peter Facinelli) scheme to expose Kara's identity.
'Supergirl' airs Monday nights at 8Pm ET/PT on CBS and Thursday evenings at 8PM on Sky 1 here in the UK. Stay tuned for episode previews right here at Cape and Cowl.
