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As the successful run of the new Superman<\/strong> movie continues, it is slated to replicate a box-office<\/strong> record set by The Dark Knight<\/strong>. Notably, the latter came out in 2008 and was the highest-grossing movie of the year, earning over $1 billion globally.<\/p>\n James Gunn\u2019s Superman is on its way to becoming the highest-grossing superhero feature of 2025, beating several Marvel Cinematic Universe projects. This year, Marvel Studios has released three movies so far: Captain America: Brave New World, Thunderbolts*, and The Fantastic Four: First Steps. While the first two turned out to be commercial disappointments, the last one, which came out on July 25, 2025, is still in theaters.<\/p>\n However, it experienced a 66% drop in the second weekend, denoting that the movie is unlikely to maintain its strong box office presence in the coming weeks (via Deadline<\/a>). Additionally, no other Marvel movie is coming out this year.<\/p>\n This means that Superman will likely become the first DC feature since The Dark Knight to beat Marvel movies at the box office. This is a record 17 years in the making. In 2008, Marvel released two movies, Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk, and the box-office returns for both were significantly less than The Dark Knight. Even successful DCEU ventures such as Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Wonder Woman, and Aquaman didn\u2019t achieve this.<\/p>\n Superman debuted in US theaters on July 11, 2025, and has made $559.3 million at the time of this article\u2019s composition (via ScreenRant<\/a>). It is the first cinematic entry in Gunn and Peter Safran\u2019s fledgling DC Universe.<\/p>\n Although Gunn has previously stated DCU\u2019s future doesn\u2019t hinge on Superman\u2019s success, its box-office performance will undoubtedly boost the franchise and serve as a strong example in potential upcoming competitions against Marvel movies.<\/p>\n Superman is currently running in theaters.<\/p>\n Originally reported by Tamal Kundu on SuperHeroHype<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n The post Superman To Achieve What The Dark Knight Did in 2008<\/a> appeared first on ComingSoon.net – Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As the successful run of the new Superman movie continues, it is slated to replicate a box-office record set by The Dark Knight. Notably, the latter came out in 2008 and was the highest-grossing movie of the year, earning over $1 billion globally. Superman to be highest grossing superhero movie of 2025 James Gunn\u2019s Superman […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1948983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[34204,311035,315758,340594,31353,340593],"class_list":["post-1948982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-box-office","tag-marvel-cinematic-universe","tag-marvel-studios","tag-new-superman","tag-superman","tag-the-dark-knight"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Superman-To-Achieve-What-The-Dark-Knight-Did-in-2008.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1948983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Superman to be highest grossing superhero movie of 2025<\/h2>\n