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James Gunns Superman showed staying power in its second weekend at North American box offices, collecting $57.3 million in ticket sales and remaining the No. 1 movie in cinemas, according to studio estimates Sunday. None of the week’s new releasesI Know What You Did Last Summer, Smurfs, and Eddingtoncame close to touching Warner Bros. and DC Studios superhero success. Superman dipped 54% from its domestic opening, an average decline for a big summer film. In two weeks, Superman has grossed $406.8 million worldwide, a good start for the movie DC Studios is banking on to restart its movie operations. A big test looms next weekend, when the Walt Disney Co. releases Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Strong audience scores and good reviews should help propel the $225 million-budgeted Superman toward profitability in the coming weeks. For Warner Bros. and DC Studios, Superman is key to kicking off a 10-year plan for the comic book adaptation studio. Co-heads Gunn and Peter Safra were tasked with rehabilitating the flagging operation. Next on tap are the films Supergirl and Clayface in 2026. But Superman is far from flying solo in theaters right now. Universal Pictures Jurassic World: Rebirth came in second this weekend, with $23.4 million in its third week of release. The seventh Jurassic movie, this one starring Scarlett Johansson, held its own despite the competition from Superman. In three weeks, it accrued $648 million worldwide. Apple Studios and Warner Bros. F1: The Movie has also shown legs, especially internationally. In its fourth weekend, the Brad Pitt racing drama dipped just 26% domestically, bringing in $9.6 million in North America, and another $29.5 million overseas. Its global total stands at $460.8 million. But both of the biggest new releasesSony Pictures I Know What You Did Last Summer and Paramount Pictures Smurfsfell flat. I Know What You Did Last Summer opened with $13 million, a fair result for a movie budgeted at a modest $18 million, but a disappointing opening for a well-known horror franchise. The film, directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, is set 27 years after the 1997 original. Teenagers played by Madelyn Cline and Chase Sui Wonders are again haunted for covering up a car accident. The movie’s reviews (38% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) were poor for I Know What You Did Last Summer and audiences graded it similarly. The film notched a C+ on CinemaScore. The original collected $72.6 million in its domestic run in 1997. Paramount Pictures Smurfs debuted in fourth place this weekend with $11 million. The latest big-screen reboot for the woodland blue creatures prominently features Rihanna as the voice of Smurfette. But reviews (21% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) were terrible. Audiences were kinder, giving it a B+ on CinemaScore, but the $58 million-budgeted release will depend largely on its international sales. In 56 overseas markets, Smurfs earned $22.6 million. Ari Asters Eddington opened with $4.2 million on 2,111 screens for A24. Since its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, Eddington has been particularly divisive. The pandemic-set Western features Joaquin Phoenix as the right-wing sheriff of a small New Mexico town who faces off with its liberal mayor (Pedro Pascal). While Asters first film, 2018s Hereditary ($82.8 million worldwide against a $10 million budget) helped establish A24 as an indie powerhouse, but the less-than-stellar launch of Eddington marks the second box-office disappointment for Aster. His 2023 film Beau Is Afraid cost $35 million to make but collected just $12.4 million worldwide. Eddington cost about $25 million to produce. Audiences gave it a C+ on CinemaScore. None of Asters previous films have been graded higher. Yet collectively, Hollywood is enjoying a very good summer. According to data firm Comscore, the 2025 summer box office is up 15.9% over the same period last year, with the year-to-date sales running 15% ahead of 2025. Summer ticket sales have amassed about $2.6 billion domestically, according to Comscore. Top 10 movies by domestic box office With final domestic figures being released Monday, this list factors in the estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore: 1. Superman, $57.3 million. 2. Jurassic World Rebirth, $23.4 million. 3. I Know What You Did Last Summer, $13 million. 4. Smurfs, $11 million. 5, F1: The Movie, $9.6 million. 6. How to Train Your Dragon, $5.4 million. 7. Eddington, $4.3 million. 8. Elio, $2 million. 9. Lilo & Stitch, $1.5 million. 10. 28 Years Later, $1.3 million. ___ This story has been updated to correct the title of Hereditary. Jake Coyle, Associated Press film writer
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Alaska Airlines has resumed operations after the failure of a critical piece of hardware forced the airline to ground all its flights for approximately three hours, but the effects will linger into Monday, the company announced. The carrier issued a system-wide ground stop for Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air flights around 8 p.m. Pacific time Sunday. The stop was lifted at 11 p.m., the Seattle-based company said in a social media post. More than 150 flights have been canceled since Sunday evening, including 64 Monday. The airline said a critical piece of multi-redundant hardware at our data centers, manufactured by a third-party, experienced an unexpected failure. That affected several of the airlines key systems, but hacking was not involved, and the airline said the incident was not related to any other events like the attack involving Microsoft’s servers over the weekend or the recent cybersecurity event at its Hawaiian Airlines subsidiary in June. We appreciate the patience of our guests whose travel plans have been disrupted. Were working to get them to their destinations as quickly as we can, the airline said in a statement. The airline also said it is working with its vendor to replace the hardware at the data center. Alaska Airlines led all airlines in cancellations Monday, according to the FlightAware website. Many of the cancellations were at the airline’s major hub of Seattle, but it also canceled flights at airports all over the country. The Federal Aviation Administration website had confirmed a ground stop for all Alaska Airlines mainline and Horizon aircraft, referring to an Alaska Airlines subsidiary. But the FAA referred all questions to the airline Monday. The National Transportation Board last month credited the crew of Alaska Airlines flight 1282 with the survival of passengers when a door plug panel flew off the plane shortly after takeoff on Jan. 5, 2024, leaving a hole that sucked objects out of the cabin. In September, Alaska Airlines said it grounded its flights in Seattle briefly due to significant disruptions from an unspecified technology problem that was resolved within hours. John Funk, AP business writer
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On July 19, Microsoft alerted users that it was experiencing an active cyberattack on its SharePoint servers, which allow organizations to share and manage documents. According to The Washington Post, the attackwhich is still ongoinghas likely put tens of thousands of servers at risk, including several hosted by federal agencies, universities, and energy companies, which have reportedly already been breached. According to a blog posted by Microsoft, the hack only impacts SharePoint servers housed within an organization, and not those in the cloud through SharePoint Online in Microsoft 365. For Microsoft, this latest breach comes after a series of other security concerns in recent years. Last January, the tech giant reported that hackers backed by Russia had successfully stolen some of the companys source code, and, the following April, a federal review board found that Microsoft was at fault for security flaws that led to a Chinese hack of U.S. government officials emails. Heres what to know about this latest hack: Whats happened? The Netherlands-based research company Eye Security was the first to identify what it called large-scale exploitation of a new SharePoint remote-code execution (RCE) vulnerability chain in the wild on the evening of July 18. The hack was whats known as a zero-day attack, meaning it took advantage of a previously unknown hole in Microsofts security system, leaving the company without any immediate way to patch the problem. Eye Securitys report found dozens of systems actively compromised between two waves of attack on July 18 and July 19. Per the firms findings, the bug allows hackers to take private digital keys from SharePoint without any login credentials, enter an organizations servers, remotely plant malware, and gain access to the available files and data. Further, Eye Security warned, because SharePoint connects with other apps like Outlook and Teams, a breach can quickly lead to data theft, password harvesting, and lateral movement across the network. Both the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have confirmed that theyre actively working to assess the hack. The party (or parties) responsible is still unknown. Who has been impacted so far? According to a blog post from CISA on July 20, the scope of the hack is unclear so far. However, several private researchers informed The Washington Post that the impact could be widespread. Pete Renals, a senior manager with the cybersecurity research firm Unit 42, told the publication, We are seeing attempts to exploit thousands of SharePoint servers globally before a patch is available. We have identified dozens of compromised organizations spanning both commercial and government sectors. Multiple anonymous researchers claimed that at least two U.S. federal agencies have seen their servers breached. Further, Randy Rose, the vice president of the nonprofit Center for Internet Security, shared that the organization notified about 100 organizationsincluding public schools and universitiesthat they were vulnerable and potentially compromised. Anybody whos got a hosted SharePoint server has got a problem, Adam Meyers, senior vice president with the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, told The Washington Post. Its a significant vulnerability. What is Microsoft doing about this? After its initial announcement of the hack on July 19, Microsoft followed up on July 20 with several updates. The company rolled out emergency patches for users of SharePoint Subscription Edition and SharePoint 2019, which can be downloaded right away. As of this writing, developers are still working to devise patches for supported versions of SharePoint 2019, as well as SharePoint 2016. What should I do if my organization hosts a SharePoint server? In an email to TechCrunch, Michael Sikorski, the head of Unit 42, advised that any organization with SharePoint on-premise should assume that you have been compromised at this point. To mitigate potential attacks, Microsoft suggests the following steps: Use supported versions of on-premises SharePoint Server Apply the latest security updates, including the July 2025 Security Update Ensure the Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI) is turned on and configured correctly, with an appropriate antivirus solution such as Defender Antivirus Deploy Microsoft Defender for Endpoint protection, or equivalent threat solutions Rotate SharePoint Server ASP.NET machine keys Microsofts blog post provides detailed instructions on how to follow each of these directives. When reached for additional comment on the hack, Microsoft directed Fast Company back to the blog.
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