Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse served as a great start for June in terms of box office takings, but it was all downhill from there. Now, the hope is Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, Barbie, and Oppenheimer will be able to escape the dismal fate met by The Flash and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
During its second weekend in theaters, the latter earned just $26.5 million in North America, and an additional $31 million overseas has done little to help.
As things stand, the final Indiana Jones movie has earned only $248 million worldwide, an appalling result for a franchise with such high brand recognition. However, the biggest issue for Disney and Lucasfilm is the fact it cost a whopping $300 million to produce, all but guaranteeing it will now be deemed a flop.
Still, it's not alone. In The Flash's case, the movie dropped out of the Top 10 after just four weeks in theaters, all but signalling the end of its box office run. As things stand, it has racked up only $261 million globally, and with a $200 million production budget and rumoured $100+ million marketing spend, this is an utter catastrophe.
A final haul of $450 million is necessary for The Flash to turn even a meagre profit, but "the greatest superhero movie ever made" will be lucky to scrounge up even an additional $20 million in the weeks ahead.
Love or hate it, The Flash is one of the biggest box office bombs ever made, and there's simply no way back from this.
While DC Studios is thought to be largely independent of Warner Bros., we'd be shocked if discussions about whether it's wise for Andy Muschietti to helm Batman reboot The Brave and the Bold aren't already taking place (especially as The Flash also received a mixed/negative response from critics and moviegoers).
This should also close the door on Ezra Miller's time as Barry Allen and while the Scarlet Speedster may well be rebooted somewhere down the line, it probably won't be that early into the DCU's "Chapter 1: Gods and Monsters" era of storytelling.
What did you watch in theaters this past weekend?