James Gunn’s ‘Superman’ To Premiere On HBO Max This Week

“Superman” will fly onto HBO Max on Sept. 19, writer-director James Gunn announced on his social media pages. The film earned $615 million at the worldwide box office over the summer, making it the year’s highest-grossing comic book movie so far.

via: Deadline

The movie starring David Corenswet as the Man of Steel, Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane and Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor had a 35-day theatrical window to Premium VOD. It opened in theaters July 11 with a $220 million global and $125 million domestic first weekend.

To date, Superman has grossed $353.9 million domestically and $615.1 million worldwide. It was the DC movie to cross the $300 million mark at the domestic box office since 2022’s The Batman.

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, titled Man of Tomorrow. That movie hits theaters on July 9, 2027 and is expected to go into production in the spring. The DC Studios 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 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).