The Flash Movie's Miserable Box Office Keeps Getting Worse

The Flash Movie's Miserable Box Office Keeps Getting Worse

Image: Warner Bros.

There’s very little the Flash can’t outrun, but it seems audience interest is one of those things. The Flashmovie, which opened to a significantly less-than-expected box office of $55 million, way down from Warner Bros.’ expected/optimistically hoped-for $75 million. But if that was the Flash stumbling, the hero has now fallen flat on his face.

While the WB hoped the film would lose only 55 percent in week two ticket sales, various outlets report that its domestic ticket sales dropped an incredible 72 percent, meaning The Flash only made $15.3 million this weekend. That puts it—a major superhero and would-be summer blockbuster—in third place after both Pixar’s Elemental andSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the latter of which reclaimed its spot at #1. Overall, The Flash has made a truly meager $87 million domestically, and a likewise dire $211 million worldwide. As THR brusquely puts it, the movie is “being rejected by audiences on a wholesale basis.”

Oof. That’s probably why Fandango is already offering a buy-one-get-one-free deal for Flash movie tickets:

Image: Warner Bros./Fandango

As if to add insult to injury, the entirety of the film has also leaked over at Twitter (and likely elsewhere by now). But if you don’t want to track it down or look askance at online piracy, I wouldn’t worry—if this keeps up, it looks like The Flash will be running to Max much, much sooner than anticipated.

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