Every DCEU Movie Ranked By Box Office Success
2. Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice - $873.6 Million
In 2012, the Marvel Cinematic Universe opened the door to incredible comic book movie crossovers. Since The Avengers, there has been Age of Ultron, Civil War, Infinity War and Endgame, with countless characters jumping from franchise to franchise in between.
In the same year most of the Avengers joined the Captain America franchise, DC joined the fun. Despite all of Marvel’s success in Hollywood over the years, it’s possible they will never enjoy the star power afforded DC by the names Batman and Superman, and bringing both superhero heavyweights to the screen in the same movie essentially gave Warner Bros. and DC a license to print money.
After the insane popularity of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, and with Superman’s longevity, both characters clashed on the big screen for the first time ever.
The movie itself was a crushing disappointment, for a whole laundry list of reasons, and suffered what has been described as an historic box office drop of 81% from its first weekend. However, that didn’t stop this particular train wreck from almost reaching the coveted $1 billion dollar mark. There has been just one DCEU movie to better these numbers since…