Box Office: ‘Blue Beetle’ Buzzing Above ‘Barbie’ After $10 Million Opening Day, ‘Strays’ Looking Hangdog

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J. Kim Murphy After four weekends of pink, the box office is going blue. Despite a muted opening, DC Studios’ “Blue Beetle” looks to dethrone fellow Warner Bros.

release “Barbie” after the hot-pink comedy spent nearly a month atop domestic charts. Debuting in 3,871 locations, the Ángel Manuel Soto-directed “Blue Beetle” earned $10 million on its opening day, a figure that includes $3.3 million from previews.

It’s not a dazzling figure for the superhero entry, which had forecast a touchdown between $25 million and $33 million heading into the weekend.

The film’s debut looks to fall behind that of this year’s earlier DC entry “Shazam! Fury of the Gods,” which debuted to $30.1 million before collapsing for a $57.6 million finish.

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