The superhero reboot retained its crown as three new releases, “Smurfs,” “I Know What You Did Last Summer” and Ari Aster’s “Eddington,” failed to find audiences in theaters.

In its second weekend of release, “Superman” collected $57.3 million from 4,774 venues — a standard 54% decline from its $125 million debut. After strong weekday holds, the Warner Bros. comic book adventure has earned $236 million domestically and $406 million globally.

Among newcomers, Sony’s “I Know What You Did Last Summer” had the strongest start at No. 3 with $13 million from 3,206 theaters. The film added $11.6 million overseas from 58 markets, bringing its worldwide total to $24.6 million.

Those soft ticket sales suggest that nostalgia isn’t as potent as Sony might have hoped for the slasher sequel, which is reuniting the original 1998 film’s stars, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt. Although “I Know What You Did Last Summer” opened behind projections, the film cost modest $18 million to produce and won’t take much to justify its budget.

Paramount’s “Smurfs” opened in fourth place with $11 million from 3,504 venues, a disappointing result for the $58 million-budgeted musical. The animated adventure has earned $25 million at the international box office to date for a global tally of $36 million. Though reviews usually don’t have too much a bearing on the turnout for family films, “Smurfs” has the lowest Rotten Tomato score (a 21% average) in the entire box office top 10. Moviegoers were kinder, awarding the film a decent “B+” grade on CinemaScore exit polls. Although this kind of reception might not spark a new cinematic universe, the “Smurfs” big screen return will likely be a big driver of consumer products for the studio. Rihanna leads the voice cast of “Smurfs” as Smurfette alongside the sprawling ensemble of James Corden, Nick Offerman, Natasha Lyonne, Sandra Oh, Jimmy Kimmel, Octavia Spencer and John Goodman.

A24’s Western satire “Eddington” wobbled to the No. 7 spot with $4.2 million from 2,111 venues its debut.

Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal star in the polarizing film, set in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic, as a sheriff and mayor that sparks a powder keg in their small town.

Aster has scored big with horror, such as 2019’s “Midsommar” ($48 million) and 2018’s “Hereditary” ($87 million), but the filmmaker has been less commercially consistent when he’s deviated to other genres like 2023’s surrealist comedy “Beau Is Afraid” ($12 million).

“Eddington” received a poor “C+” grade on CinemaScore, which spells doom for the film’s theatrical haul.

“Ari Aster’s previous movies were not crowd-pleasers,” says David Gross, who runs the movie consulting firm. However, “Westerns generally start slowly and go on long runs after they open, but we don’t see that happening here.”

Although those are strong returns — it’s one of only three Hollywood films to surpass the $600 million mark in 2025 — the latest “Jurassic” has ways to go to reach the heights of the prior sequel trilogy, all of which grossed $1 billion globally.

Box office returns are currently 15% ahead of the same point in 2024 though about 24% behind 2019, the last pre-pandemic year, according to Comscore.

After “Fantastic Four” closes out the month of July, the summer season will continue with August releases like “The Naked Gun,” “Freakier Friday” and Zach Cregger’s thriller “Weapons.”