Legacy Media Mourns ‘Supergirl’s Box Office Collapse

If you see a journalist wearing black today, chances are they cover entertainment.

The scribes are in collective mourning due to “Supergirl’s” terrible box office weekend. The same scribes don’t don black for any ol’ movie, though.

They reported on “Masters of the Universe” under-performing a few weeks back without the dark garments and teeth gnashing. The same held true for “The Breadwinner,” the Nate Bargatze vehicle that under-perforrmer mere weeks ago.

At first, journalists were trying to spin away the awful numbers – $38 million at U.S. theaters, and collectively less across the globe.

Now, it’s time to start the five stages of grief. For far-Left journalists, that typically stars with the fans.

AKA the bigots.

Yes, misogny is partly to blame for “Supergirl’s” terrible box office debut. Not the film’s anemic script, lackluster star, bland action set pieces or low-stakes adventure.

Not even the CGI dog – as big a flaw as any movie could muster – gets name checked today.

Just ask The New York Times, which immediately blasted fans for not rallying around a movie Variety dubbed, “Super horrendous.”

box office analysts on Sunday noted an uncomfortable truth: Female-led superhero movies have been rejected almost uniformly over the past five years or so, perhaps reflecting a resurgent misogyny among the core fan base, which is largely male.

The same Variety that excoriated “Supergirl” also blamed misogyny for the film’s poor showing.

While the culture war is a contributing factor in the poor performance of female-led superhero films, with hordes of online misogynists lashing out at them sight unseen, previous entries like “Wonder Woman” and “Captain Marvel” withstood similar backlash — who can forget the manly meltdown over women-only screenings of “Wonder Woman?” — to big box office returns, and the female-focused “Barbie” shattered records, grossing $1.4 billion worldwide.

Later in the SAME PARAGRAPH, the far-Left site admitted the problem.

That’s because those films were made with care and consideration, unlike “Supergirl…”

Oh.

Kudos to Forbes.com for a fair, sober analysis of the film’s failure.

There is absolutely zero way to spin the performance of Supergirl over the weekend, the film coming in below even not-great expectations. Supergirl made $38 million in its domestic opening weekend, less than a third of Superman and below all-time horrors like Morbius at $39 million.

Bottom line: Audiences, male and female, love great movies. They rallied for 2017’s “Wonder Woman” and the “Hunger Games” franchise. They ignored inferior films like “Birds of Prey,” “Madame Web” and “Wonder Woman 1984.”

It’s not complicated. Why are reporters trying to make it so?

Actually, we know why…