twitchy.com By Warren Squire
James Gunn’s ‘Superman’ is still soaring in U.S. theaters but is facing some box office Kryptonite overseas. No, not the traditional Green Kryptonite that saps the powers of The Last Son of Krypton. This is a new Orange Kryptonite, which makes foreign moviegoers develop anti-American sentiment and scares them away from the latest DC movie featuring Supes.
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James Gunn says “anti-American sentiment around the world right now” is not helping #Superman at the global box office.
“We’re definitely performing better domestically than we are internationally, but internationally is also rising and having really good weekday numbers in the same way we are. So obviously the word of mouth is very positive both here and everywhere else. Which is the thing that we needed to do the most,” Gunn told Rolling Stone. “Superman is not a known commodity in some places. He is not a big known superhero in some places like Batman is. That affects things. And it also affects things that we have a certain amount of anti-American sentiment around the world right now. It isn’t really helping us. So I think it’s just a matter of letting something grow. But again, for us, everything’s been a total win. Having the movie come out and be something that has been embraced by people everywhere — this is just the seed of the tree that Peter and I have been watering for the past three years. So to be able to have it start off so positively has been incredibly overwhelming…
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