The Flash had a reasonably disappointing on-line streaming debut, as after dropping on Max final Friday, the DC superhero flick had even fewer viewers than Black Adam.
In line with Deadline, The Flash was streamed by simply 1.1 million U.S. households throughout within the two days after its debut. That’s an 8% lower in comparison with Black Adam’s 1.2 million households.
Mediocre evaluations and a dismal field workplace return spelled hassle for Black Adam, which reportedly misplaced as much as $100 million. The movie earned a modest $393 million worldwide, and it appeared that even Dwayne Johnson couldn’t save the faltering DC superhero flick.
Issues have been even worse for The Flash. Ezra Miller’s solo superhero movie earned simply $268 million worldwide — a tough determine for a movie that successfully ended the DCEU. Now, the house streaming figures are simply as meek.
It doesn’t assist that Warner Bros. Discovery has misplaced 1.8 million subscribers since HBO Max relaunched as Max. Nevertheless, The Flash wasn’t precisely destined for greatness, and with a 72% field workplace drop in its second weekend, the writing was already on the wall for one in every of DC’s newest superhero flops.
Nonetheless, it is a minimum of doing higher than Blue Beetle which has earned simply $83.6 million worldwide to this point.
IGN’s The Flash overview gave it 7/10 and mentioned: “The Flash is an bold superhero film that largely pulls off its story of two worlds, two Flashes, and two Batmans. The superhero fan service is powerful with this one – maybe too robust at instances – nevertheless it by no means absolutely overshadows Barry Allen’s genuinely tragic and heartfelt story of grief.”
Need to learn extra about The Flash? Try The Flash’s alternate ending in addition to the grim cause why Michael Keaton’s Batman was retired.
Ryan Leston is an leisure journalist and movie critic for IGN. You may comply with him on Twitter.
