TheFlash stumbles into a slow start at the global box office, bringing in underwhelming numbers in its theatrical debut.
Normally, when a studio starts screening a movie well before release day in a bid to generate positive buzz, it's because the product is excellent. But nobody could’ve expected audiences across the globe to react to Warner Bros’ The Flash with a collective shrug. The big-budget superhero spectacle debuted well below expectations at the domestic box office, where it generated only $55 million across three days, and it didn’t fare all that better globally either.
The movie made $75 million from 79 overseas markets, for a global debut of $139 million. The studio is including domestic estimates for the extended four-day weekend, which is currently pegged at $64 million. By comparison, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice made $422 million in its worldwide debut, and last year’s Black Adam generated $140 million in its global debut. But we now know how that movie tanked shortly afterward, concluding its theatrical run with under $400 million worldwide.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT But what makes this situation even more disappointing is that Warner Bros. has stood by this movie through major behind-the-scenes drama, from a changing leadership to multiple script rewrites and a revolving door of directors, not to mention the bad press that star Ezra Miller’s personal troubles brought to the project.
The Flash Isn't Quite the Greatest Superhero Movie of All Time That We'd Been Promised But the court of public opinion hasn’t been as kind. The Flash could only manage a disappointing B CinemaScore from opening day audiences, and it’s currently sitting at 67% on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Collider’s Ross Bonaime wrote that the movie wasn't able to deliver a "story that holds together on a narrative level” in his review.
Like the recent Spider-Man: No Way Home, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse — all hits, by the way — The Flash is also a multiverse-hopping adventure. In a bid to save his mother from dying, Barry Allen goes back in time and runs into an alternate version of himself, which has dire consequences.
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