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Not true for new Superman movie. The overseas numbers are downright embarrassing.
Individual movies are not useful data. Superman as a concept is very American and has little appeal outside of the Americas and almost no appeal in Asia. For example a search on Taobao for " 超人" (Superman's name in Chinese) has about 8 entries for electric razors to each entry for something related to Superman. Even Aquaman is more popular: a search for 海王侠 provides a listing where about 90% of the entries are related to the comic character, despite 海王 being a very popular brand of health supplements and Taobao's search being infamous for throwing anything at you that has even one of the characters you have in your search.
And Spider-Man? Yeah. A search on 蜘蛛侠 gives us so many genuine Spider-Man entries, plus a few that are kinda/sorta related (read: weird knock-offs) that you won't have any problem finding what you want.
So Superman flopped in China (4th at the box office for foreign films) not because of people hating the USA but rather because the character simply doesn't resonate with the local populace. I suspect we can find the same in Korea and Japan.