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Superman Returns

Superman Returns
2006
 154 minutes (2 hrs 34 mins)

Director and Cast Quickview

Directed by

Starring

Brandon Routh · Kate Bosworth · Kevin Spacey · James Marsden · Parker Posey · Frank Langella

Full cast & crew

Release dates

US release date US release: 28th June 2006

Box Office Quickview

UK box office

  • Debut box office: 14th Jul '06
  • Debut position: 2
  • Highest position: 2
  • Debut gross: £4.3 Million
  • Total chart weeks: 7

US box office

  • Box Office debut: 30th Jun '06
  • Debut position: 1
  • Highest position: 1
  • Debut gross: $84.6 Million
  • Total chart weeks: 18

Chart position history

UK box office

14 Jul, 2006
2
21 Jul, 2006
3
28 Jul, 2006
4
4 Aug, 2006
6
11 Aug, 2006
10
18 Aug, 2006
13
25 Aug, 2006
15

US box office

30 Jun, 2006
1
7 Jul, 2006
2
14 Jul, 2006
4
21 Jul, 2006
8
28 Jul, 2006
12
4 Aug, 2006
14

Global box office

30 Jun, 2006
1
7 Jul, 2006
1
14 Jul, 2006
1
21 Jul, 2006
1
28 Jul, 2006
1
4 Aug, 2006
1
11 Aug, 2006
1
18 Aug, 2006
1
25 Aug, 2006
1
1 Sep, 2006
1
8 Sep, 2006
1
15 Sep, 2006
1
22 Sep, 2006
2

Total grosses

UK total gross
United Kingdom Flag  £15.7 Million
US total gross
United States Flag  $200.1 Million
Global total gross
Global Flag  $391.1 Million

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It has been over 12 years since the Synderverse Man of Steel it cinemas with Henry Cavill as Superman and a lot has changed in the DC Cinematic Universe since then.

Superman~2025 from director and current DCEU boss James Gunn hits the top of the UK box office on its debut weekend with a solid nearly £7 Million weekend gross.

Compared to Man of Steel from 2013 this is lower with that movie taking £11 Million on its debut.

Comparing it to other Superman movies, its higher that the 2006 Bryan Singer movie Superman Returns which scraped in just over £4 Million and the classic 1978 Superman starring Christopher Reeves took just over a million on its debut which would be just over £4 Million adjusted for inflation - but cinema was very different back then.

Falling to number 2 this weekend after a single weekend at the top is Jurassic World: Rebirth which has taken over £19 Million after just 2 weekends in cinemas.

UK box office QuickView

  • Number 1 - Superman (1st Weekend)
  • Highest debut - Superman (@1)
  • Longest run - Mission:Impossible - The Final Reckoning (8 weeks)
  • Highest total gross - Lilo & Stitch (£36,056,085)
  • Best Percentage change week on week - The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (49%)
  • Total UK top 15 this weekend - £13,178,398
  • Also new this weekend
    • Cbeebies Musical: The Great Ice Cream Hunt
    • The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
  • Check out the full UK box office.

UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 11th - 13th July 2025

Superman~2025

Highest new movie this weekend

  • The movie is the Highest debut on this weeks UK box office chart.
  • It has spent 1 weeks at the top of the UK box office.
  • It grosses £6,992,902 over its debut weekend
  • It is the 11th top debuting movie in the month of July

Jurassic World: Rebirth

  • The movie goes down the chart to number 2 on this weeks UK box office
  • It grosses £3,236,504 over the weekend, a 74% drop from last weekend
  • It has a total gross of £19,383,470 over 2 weeks of release
  • The movie is the 7th top grossing film so far in 2025
  • The movie is a sequel to Jurassic World: Dominion which took £21,759,279 at the box office after 2 weeks in cinemas.

F1

  • The movie goes down the chart to number 3 on this weeks UK box office
  • It grosses £1,170,337 over the weekend, a 62% drop from last weekend
  • It has a total gross of £19,383,470 over 3 weeks of release
  • The movie is the 6th top grossing film so far in 2025

How to Train Your Dragon~2025

  • The movie goes down the chart to number 4 on this weeks UK box office
  • It grosses £582,038 over the weekend, a 61% drop from last weekend
  • It has a total gross of £19,319,953 over 5 weeks of release
  • The movie is the 8th top grossing film so far in 2025

28 Years Later

  • The movie goes down the chart to number 5 on this weeks UK box office
  • It grosses £498,015 over the weekend, a 65% drop from last weekend
  • It has a total gross of £13,729,504 over 4 weeks of release
  • The movie is the 13th top grossing film so far in 2025
  • The movie is a sequel to 28 Weeks Later which took £4,938,925 at the box office after 4 weeks in cinemas.

There were two new big entries on the box office this week and the 2016 reboot of Ghostbusters was the highest of them.

Directed by Paul Feig and starring Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig the new take on the classic 1984 film tops the UK box office with £4.3 million.

The original movie took a total of £12 million in the UK and time will tell if this will climb to those height.

The Secret Life of Pets falls to number 3 after 3 weeks at the top with a weekend gross of £2 million gross which brings the films total gross to £25.7 million.

The Secret Life of Pets is also the highest total grossing film on this weeks box office.

Also new this week at number 2 is the 5th in the Ice Age series Ice Age Collision Course, its debut gross is £3.7 million.

Historical charts

A year ago - Marvels smallest hero Ant-Man made its debut at the top of the box office with Minions falling into second place.

Five years ago - The last Harry Potter film Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2 made its debut at the top while Transformers: Dark of The Moon falls into second place.

Ten years ago - Holding on to the top spot was Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Mans Chest leaving Superman Returns to debut at number 2.

Fifteen years ago - Shrek went back to the top of the box office knocking off Lara Croft Tomb Raider while the highest new film was as low as 5 in the shape of Pokémon 3 The Movie.

Twenty years ago - Mission:Impossible held on to the top spot keeping The Cable Guy off the top and leaving it to debut at number 2.

Twenty five years ago Thelma and Louise made its debut at the top knocking off The Naked Gun 2 ½ The Smell of Fear after a couple of weeks at the top.

A new trailer has been released for next years Superman reboot Man of Steel, and unlike the previous effort this one shows promise.

The film looks grittier, meaner and tougher than 2006's Superman Returns, the film is taking a very different approach than that of the classic Christopher Reeve films, unlike the 2006 effort.

This could be good news, but then the trailers for Superman Returns looked good and that was utter rubbish so maybe we'll reserve judgement until release date which is 14th June 2013, until then enjoy the trailer.