With The Box Office Down, James Gunn Predicts Summer Of 'superman' To The Rescue

The 2025 box office has been hit with a deficit. Can the James Gunn-dubbed 'summer of 'Superman'" save it?

Warner Bros. showed off a diverse and starry slate of its upcoming films on Tuesday - but the night was carried on the shoulders of Clark Kent.

"I really do believe in this movie. And I do believe that there is a lack of human kindness, or at least a degradation of human kindness," Gunn said. "This is a movie that celebrates kindness and human love."

At the annual CinemaCon convention and trade show in Las Vegas, Gunn - the director and writer of the first film in the new iteration of the connected DC Universe - also brought out its stars, who gushed over their experience making the film.

"It's a great honor to play a role that exists so clearly in the public consciousness, to the point where everyone I think, even if you haven't seen a film or read a comic, you sort of know what the Superman symbol means and you know what it stands for," said David Corenswet, adding that he hopes to "illuminate something new about the character, or even just bring the beloved character to a new audience."