The James Gunn directed Superman, the first movie title in the DC Studios’ “Gods and Monsters” phase, will arrive on HBO Max on Sept 19 after a 70-theatrical window.
The movie will premiere on linear HBO on Sept. 20 at 8PM ET.
The movie starring David Corenswet as the Man of Steel and Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane had a 35-day theatrical window to PVOD on Aug. 15 after opening on July 11 to $220M global, $125M worldwide.
Gunn told Screen Rant that the short window was “because of Peacemaker. I originally thought Peacemaker was going to be coming out next month. There was a lot of things that are beyond our control, so that Peacemaker is coming out now, and, at the end of the day, I wanted everyone to be able to see Superman that wanted to, even those people who couldn’t get to a theater before Peacemaker. And that’s really the reason for it.”
Gunn has already fast-tracked a follow-up to Superman, entitled Man of Tomorrow. That movie hits theaters on July 9, 2027 and is expected to go into production in the spring. The DC Studio Co-Boss told Howard Stern recently that the next movie is “a story about Lex Luthor and Superman having to work together to a certain degree against a much, much bigger threat.”
“It’s more complicated than that,” added Gunn, “It’s as much a Lex movie as it is a Superman movie.”
A version of Superman with American Sign Language (ASL) will also stream exclusively on HBO Max, interpreted by Deaf ASL Interpreter Giovanni Maucere and directed by Leila Hanaumi (Barbie with ASL, The Last of Us with ASL).
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