Superhero Box Office Admissions (Europe) – 2005’s F4 takes the crown in most markets over (though Trank’s film snags a win in Turkey). Superman gains a modest win over Superman Returns (+6%), though is 16% behind Man of Steel.

Lumiere just came out with its yearly update (don't enter a name in the title to get a list of the top 200 films by admissions under your search parameters). I thought I'd use the graph to show a topic I toyed around with a few months ago but was genuinely harder to faithfully do with "only" the data in BoxOfficeMojo (to answer the "why didn't you do this 6 months ago when it was more topical" objection).

data caveat – Lumiere updates once to report its estimate of data as of Dec 31st 2025. That's not relevant for this chart but it means films like Avatar 3 will be included in its data without reflecting the full run.

For fun, I threw in a final "non Marvel Superman-style film" graph that includes Black Adam as well as Hancock because, well, they're all Superman style characters. It's fun to remember just how big Hancock was (which circles back to Europe's relative softness for Superhero blockbusters generally) and Black Adam's sneaky strength.

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markets without all 3 films:

Superman (2025) is the only Superman film with market specific data for Bosnia, and Cyprus while Superman Returns is the sole Luxembourg datapoint. Superman Returns alone is missing Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Lithuania, Montenegro and Man of Steel alone is missing Romania, and Latvia.

Cyprus is only covered explictly by F4: First Steps and Luxembourg by 2005's F4
Outside of that, the early 2005's franchise is missing data for Bosnia, Croatia, Greece, Lithuania, Montenegro (2007 independence), and Bulgaria is missing from Silver Surfer (2007) and Slovenia is missing from 2005's F4.
The 2015 Film is missing data in Belgium and Slovenia. 2025's First Steps is missing data for Romania.

In all cases I folded Ireland and GB together as that's how its reported by the UK market and we only had partial Irish data.

Some of these "gaps" is clearly going to be changes in external market definitions (e.g. Montenegro became fully independent of Serbia in 2007 and Ireland/Ireland & GB). I've skipped over correcting non Ireland/UK ones as they concern smaller markets and I don't organically know what's missing data here versus changing definitions.