Justice League surpasses Logan at the worldwide box office

Justice League may have underwhelmed at the box office, but we do have one bit of good news for Warner Bros., as the DC team-up is not going to finish the year as the lowest-grossing live-action superhero movie.

Going into this weekend, Justice League has pushed its worldwide haul to $625 million, surpassing 20th Century Fox’s Wolverine swansong Logan, which earned $616.8 million earlier in the year. Of course, Logan cost less than a third of Justice League to produce, with a budget of $97 million against the DC blockbuster’s $300 million.

Early reports had claimed that Justice League would need to gross around $650 million to break even, while Man of Steel’s $668 million is the target should it not want to end up the lowest-grossing chapter of the DC Extended Universe. With Star Wars: The Last Jedi now gobbling up ticket sales, it will be interesting to see if it manages to limp to that figure.

In terms of the year’s other Marvel and DC offerings, Wonder Woman sites on $821.9 million, Thor: Ragnarok on $836 million, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 on $863.6 million, and Spider-Man: Homecoming on $880.2 million.

Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman’s selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to find and recruit a team of metahumans to stand against this newly awakened threat. But despite the formation of this unprecedented league of heroes—Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and The Flash—it may already be too late to save the planet from an assault of catastrophic proportions.

Justice League reunites Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice stars Henry Cavill as Superman, Ben Affleck as Batman, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, Ray Fisher as Cyborg, Jason Momoa as Aquaman, Ezra Miller as The Flash, Amy Adams as Lois Lane, Jeremy Irons as Alfred Pennyworth, Diane Lane as Martha Kent, Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor, Connie Nielsen as Queen Hippolyta and Robin Wright as General Antiope alongside J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) as Commissioner Gordon, Amber Heard (The Danish Girl) as Mera and Ciaran Hinds (Game of Thrones) as Steppenwolf.

Kimmy Christy

Logan was also rated R. Had it not been, you may rest assured that Justice League would not have surpassed it.
- Gary@FlickeringMyth
  
  Possibly, but Logan may not have been so successful or as highly praised if it was not R-rated – see X-Men Origins Wolverine and The Wolverine.
  - Hoang
    
    It is about content! Logan is considered to be the best superhero film all time
    - Gary@FlickeringMyth
      
      By who?
Matthew Utley

what is really funny, is more people actually enjoyed and rated Justice League better 80% than the new star wars movie 56%, now that is funny as fuc
- Passerby
  
  The people you refer to are users of the Rotten Tomatoes site. Yes, 80% of Rotten Tomatoes users liked Justice League and 56% of them liked Star Wars: The Last Jedi. BUT, the majority of people who go to the movies aren’t users of Rotten Tomatoes. CinemaScore gives a more accurate measurement of a movie’s appeal among audiences. They poll moviegoers after they have seen the movie at cinemas to collect demographic information and calculate a CinemaScore grade. Justice League’s CinemaScore is B+. Star Wars: The Last Jedi’s CinemaScore is A.
  - Vos_L
    
    And also, there are so many people who have stopped going to the WB/DC movies because they don’t like what was happening with them. So there are a lot of people who assuredly would have rated Justice League negatively that didn’t bother going to see it, lol.
Michael Vegas

Guardians of the Galaxy 2 SUCKED. It was not as good as the first one, and it only got that high because of the Disney hype machine
J.Barros

Nice to see the numbers still going up for Justice League and I do see it being over 700m at the end of its run, I heard it needed 600m to break even so someone is lying about the numbers. I enjoyed Justice League more than Star Wars that’s for sure. Watch Star Wars ticket sales drop hard this week after people see no epic light sabre fight and Snoke and Luke killed off just like that and seriously fucked over in the movie after being hyped up in force awakens!!! Force Awakens pissed me off when Disney bumped off Han Solo, and Last Jedi pissed me off even more with the treatment of Luke Skywalker. Hell a lot of people are already bashing Last Jedi as the worst star wars film in the franchise and I am not surprised.
Vadé Hanson

Regardless, DC needs a revision with its film division
Vos_L

So WB spent all this time and money building a DC cinematic universe to get big team-up movie paydays and the pinnacle of this with Justice League is breaking even? LOL