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Superman Gets Super $106 Million in First Week

?Superman Returns? pulled in $106 million in its first week of release, which included getting a head start on the Fourth of July holiday as well as the sequel to 2003?s ?Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl?, this year?s ?Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man?s Chest?. Whether ?Pirates? will be a swashbuckler that will send the newest adventures of the Man of Steel walking off the plank remains to be seen, some poor reviews might say no, but Disney is likely banking on viewers who loved the first movie to see the sequel whatever the quality of the film.

Is there a movie that can be kryptonite to the box-office prospects of ?Superman Returns? this summer? Many of the movies, aside from ?Pirates 2?, which stood a chance of tearing the cape off the Last Son of Krypton have already been released, and are performing well-to-nominally-well. ?The Da Vinci Code? seems to be off of the radar of many movie business observers for the moment, and that film ? like ?Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man?s Chest? ? has received mixed reviews.

Johnny Depp can be a big draw to a summer movie like ?Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man?s Chest?, and he as well as his co-stars Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom were likely worth the price director Gore Verbinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer paid them. A sequel with a reunited (or mostly reunited) cast is likely to enter the running stronger than one that has had a complete makeover in this arena. Will Davy Jones do what Lex Luthor could not?