{"id":15195999,"date":"2026-07-04T16:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T20:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/review-supergirl-is-not-the-disaster-its-low-box-office-suggests\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T23:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T03:34:17","slug":"review-supergirl-is-not-the-disaster-its-low-box-office-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/review-supergirl-is-not-the-disaster-its-low-box-office-suggests\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Supergirl is not the disaster its low box office suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pour one out for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Supergirl_(2026_film)\"><em>Supergirl<\/em><\/a>, the latest installment in the DCU&#8217;s <em>Gods and Monsters<\/em> chapter, which has been beset by online troll attacks, mixed reviews, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/06\/box-office-supergirl-toy-story-5-1236968254\/\">very disappointing<\/a> opening weekend box office\u2014not the outcome Warner Bros. was hoping for with this follow-up to last year&#8217;s <em>Superman<\/em>. It&#8217;s actually a pretty good movie, as such films go, but it&#8217;s not a <em>great<\/em> movie. And in today&#8217;s over-saturated superhero market, that&#8217;s just not sufficient to get people out of their homes and into theaters, rather than waiting for the film to come to streaming platforms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(Some spoilers below but no major reveals.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The studio tapped Ana Nogueira to write the script, a holdover from the former DCEU plans for a standalone Supergirl film. (The character appeared in the finale of 2022&#8217;s <em>The Flash<\/em>, played by Sasha Calle.) The project was reimagined when James Gunn and Peter Safran took over and launched the &#8220;soft reboot&#8221; DCU. Director Craig Gillespie (<em>Lars and the Real Girl, I Tonya<\/em>) signed on to direct.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/culture\/2026\/07\/review-supergirl-is-not-the-disaster-its-low-box-office-suggests\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/culture\/2026\/07\/review-supergirl-is-not-the-disaster-its-low-box-office-suggests\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/culture\/2026\/07\/review-supergirl-is-not-the-disaster-its-low-box-office-suggests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tech &#8211; Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a pretty good movie, but it needed to be a great movie to thrive in an oversaturated superhero 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