‘Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero’ Steps On Universal’s Lion Movie ‘Beast’ With $4M Thursday Previews

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We hearing from industry sources that Crunchyroll’s sequel, Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, notched an estimated $4M in Thursday night previews, trouncing Universal’s Idris Elba lion movie, Beast, which did $925K at 2,900 theaters.

Both began previews at 5PM last night. Crunchyroll is sending out an official update tomorrow.Super Hero‘s start last night has a shot at getting it near $15M, while the fate of Beast, despite being 72% fresh among Rotten Tomatoes critics, is likely in the single digit range at 3,743 theaters.

Ouch. Super Hero is on a 90-day theatrical window and booked in 3,100 theaters (3,900 screens) and has all the super powers of Imax, 4DX, Dolby and D-box.Super Hero‘s Thursday night soars above the $2.88M Thursday grossed by Crunchyroll’s Jujutsu Kaisen 0 back in March at 2,003 theaters which resulted in a 3-day weekend of $14.8M and total weekend+previews figure of $17.6M.

Super Hero is currently higher than Crunchyroll’s Demon Slayer from March 2020 which did $3.8M in previews, before a $21.2M opening.Beast‘s Thursday is just below the $1M earned by Paramount’s alligator horror title Crawl in its preview night, which translated to a $4.3M Friday, and $12M opening in July 2019.