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James Gunn’s Woke ‘Superman’ Needs to Open Big in China, Pre-Sales Show a Bust Is Brewing

Director James Gunn’s “Superman reboot,” hitting theaters this weekend, carries a production and promotional budget in the $300 to $400 million range. The David-Corenswet-starring film will need a big debut in China, where DC Studios has seen its superhero movies go to die or never show at all. Early “Superman” ticket sales figures suggest the Middle Kingdom could prove to be Kryptonite.

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Sarah Jessica Parker Won’t Push Her Politics Because ‘Many Generations Were Elected Without Someone Having to Say Something on Instagram’

“Sex and the City” star Sarah Jessica Parker says she doesn’t talk about politics on social media because she believes it doesn’t add anything constructive to discourse and “turns into a distraction from a campaign.” The actress pushed back against people who tell her “You got to speak up,” saying, “FDR was elected without social media.”

NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 21: Actress Sarah Jessica Parker on the set of "Sex in The City:

‘Superman’ Director James Gunn Says His Film ‘Is About Politics,’ ‘An Immigrant that Came from Other Places,’ and the ‘Kindness We Have Lost’

“Superman” director James Gunn — who was fired by Disney after a decade’s worth of tweets he wrote about child rape, Mexicans, AIDS, and the Holocaust went viral; who said “Trump wakes up every morning hoping more kids are murdered by immigrants so it will help him in the polls;” who called Sen. Ted Cruz a “traitor;” who peddled the Trump “pee tape” hoax, and who said in 2023 “there is such a thing as superhero fatigue,” is now telling a large segment of America that his new superhero movie might not be for them. 

LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 02: James Gunn attends the "Superman" Fan Event in London