Saturday, July 4, 2026

Box Office: “Superman” Flies to $200 Mil Today, “Eddington” is Deadington, “Smurfs” Gets Slow Start

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The Friday box office is here!

“Superman” picked up another $16 mil last night. Today it crosses the $200 mil mark and by tomorrow could be around $220 million. Nicely done.

That’s the good news. The bad news is that “Smurfs” made just $4 million and is looking at a sad $12 million weekend. Where are all the kids? Why aren’t they crowding theaters? Rihanna is part of this film!

A24’s “Eddington” is Deadington. Ari Aster’s movie about a small town conflict over COVID is finding the small minuscule audience that his last movie, “Beau is Afraid,” had. Joaqin Phoenix had better go back to making normal films with name directors. Why keep making these movies?

Let’s all try and see “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight,” from Sony Pictures Classics. It’s supposed to very good. We’ll talk tomorrow.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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