The Flash has lurched past $200 million at the box office following a massive drop at this weekend’s box office, potentially spelling disaster for the latest DC Universe film.
Eza Miller’s The Flash movie made a measly $15.3 million domestically during its second week at the box office. While that push gets the film past the $200 million mark at the worldwide box office, it shows a massive 73% percent drop from its first weekend gross. This is worse than both Shazam: Fury of the Gods, which only held a 68% drop, and Black Adam, which had a 63% drop. Both films were largely considered flops for the studio.
Given stiff box office competition from the likes of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Elemental, analysts predict that The Flash has already reached the end of its box office run, predicting the film to finish with $280M-$310M worldwide. With The Flash rumored to have cost somewhere around $200 million to make, not including the marketing costs, the film could end up costing Warner Bros. millions.
The Flash’s DC Universe future
Warner Bros. Discovery already has a script for a potential sequel to The Flash, written by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, the man behind the two Aquaman movies starring Jason Momoa. However, James Gunn and Peter Safran did not discuss the Flash sequel during their DC Universe presentation.
Directed by Andy Muschietti from a script written by Birds of Prey scribe Christina Hodson, The Flash is inspired by the Flashpoint comic book storyline, which followed Barry Allen as he navigated an altered DC Universe. Written by Geoff Johns and penciled by Andy Kuber, Flashpoint radically altered the status of the DC Comics universe and led to the launch of the New 52 titles.
In addition to Ezra Miller, The Flash also features Michael Keaton and Ben Affleck as two separate versions of Batman, Ron Livingston as Henry Allen, Maribel Verdú as Nora Allen, Kiersey Clemons as Iris West, Michael Shannon as General Zod, Antje Traue as Faora-Ul and Sasha Calle as Supergirl.
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Source: ComicBookMovie.com
