The Flash has been hitting all the right notes when it comes to test screenings, early reviews and the general buzz around the movie. When you hear the name The Dark Knight being said in the same sentence and sound bites such as “greatest superhero movie ever” being banded around, it seems almost impossible to see the movie being anything other than the biggest hit of the busy summer schedule. However, projections from opening weekend currently tell a different story that looks set to slam the brakes on what seemed to be the DCEU’s best final entry.

New data revealed by The Hollywood Reporter suggests that The Flash is heading for an opening weekend domestic gross of around $70 million. While this would not be a disaster by any means, it certainly doesn’t have the same ring as a $100 million upward projection. However, the opening weekend is not the biggest factor to these things, as many a Marvel movie has discovered in recent years. The main challenge will be for The Flash to manage to avoid a big second weekend drop-off that has seen many big opening weekend be rendered irrelevant as the film subsequently drops off radar very quickly.

One things for certain is that there is always scope for that projected gross to be upgraded as the movie’s release approaches, although there is very little more that Warner Bros. Discovery could actually reveal about the movie that they haven’t already shows in trailers and interviews with director Andy Muschietti. That means that exactly how The Flash delivered on its opening weekend next month is something that is well and truly in the hands of audiences around the world.

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Will The Flash Live up to the Hype at the Box Office?

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So far, everything has been thrown at The Flash in order to try and make it the multiverse movie that Marvel have been promising for the last couple of years but still not quite delivered to fan expectations. From a DC perspective, The Flash is certainly giving Marvel Studios a good kicking over the amount of characters and former actors that it has pulled in, and with more rumored appearances, it certainly seems like if The Flash doesn’t manage to hit a huge box office, it is not for want of trying.

Along with Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen appearing as both current and 2013 version of the character, Michael Keaton dons the Batsuit for the first time since 1992 and Ben Affleck will also be putting in another appearance as his Batman. Throw in Sasha Calle as Supergirl, Michael Shannon returning as Man of Steel’s General Zod, Jeremy Irons reprising his role as Alfred and director Muschietti having revealed that there will also be a glimpse of what might have been in the form of Nicolas Cage making an appearance as Superman, the film is setting itself up to be a huge movie event in every way possible.

The Flash will arrive in cinemas on June 16.