discussion The Rock and DC's Black Adam opens with $67M at the BO, only $13.5M more than Shazam!

[Broken]

 

 

Shazam's budget: 80-100M

 

Edited October 23, 2022 by Broken

[Bloodflowers.]

More than Margot Robbie's last two DC movies  

[Bloodflowers.]

if it wasn't for box office heavyweight The Rock attached to this film, it would been DC's biggest bomb at the box office yet

[LP54]

Sad cause I heard good things.

[politeone]

Isn't Shazam! the much more known property? This is some obscure villain to the non-comic fans. These are solid numbers, DC isn't dead. This is good for a first movie

[Arcadius]

The movie will probably end up around $400-$450M globally in the end. That's not a complete bomb but for a $200M budget it won't break even. However, it is on par with Shang-Chi and Eternals from last year so there's that.

[Repelex]

67M for a movie about a villain GP knows nothing about and in a franchise that has struggled with maintaining a faithful audience is not the catastrophic event you're making it out to be. The thing it's gonna keep it from turning a huge profit is the budget. 

[Johnny Jacobs]

It will still make more than Eternals for sure 

[Broken]

Black Adam:

Starring DWAYNE "THE ROCK" JOHNSON aka "box office magnet" aka "the biggest movie star in the world" (according to DC stans)

Budget: $200M

Opening weekend: $67M

 

Shazam!:

Starring Zachary Lewis, a nobody.

Budget: $80M-$100M

Opening weekend: $53.5M

 

"Solid numbers" .

[Katamari]

the rock deserves better

[rp662]

49 minutes ago, politeone said:

Isn't Shazam! the much more known property? This is some obscure villain to the non-comic fans. These are solid numbers, DC isn't dead. This is good for a first movie

Tea. The real issue is the budget which was obviously overblown and as I said in the Taylor Swift’s Amsterdam thread;  studios need to learn how to set budgets appropriately; but this ain’t no Morbius no matter how the ODCUH try to spin it.

[Cloudy]

Noah's cock carried I fear

[Gorjesspazze9]

This is decent at best, just like the film itself. Not bad, but not really great either 

[chris1991]

Good enough. Black Adam is a niche comic book character (a villain to a B list superhero) so I wasn’t expecting earth shattering numbers!  
 

Marvel built so much goodwill with the first movies in their universe …. Even their C list character’s film did great! DC films is a damaged brand at this point.

 

Alsooo superhero fatigue is a real thing. Unless the film is avengers level they’re all going to do mid numbers!

[tigalion]

38 minutes ago, Broken said:

Black Adam:

Starring DWAYNE "THE ROCK" JOHNSON aka "box office magnet" aka "the biggest movie star in the world" (according to DC stans)

Budget: $200M

Opening weekend: $67M

 

Shazam!:

Starring Zachary Lewis, a nobody.

Budget: $80M-$100M

Opening weekend: $53.5M

 

"Solid numbers" .

I've read that it's still The Rock best 'solo' OW in North America. What is lacking is his international draw this time around but i guess the strong dollar doesn't help. 

[JBJT2786]

It's 140 M WW and it's got 2 more weekends before BP:WF will come a destroy everything.

 

I'm still wondering why people were expecting this to open bigger? The Rock's biggest opening before this is the Mummy Returns ( Furious 7 doesn't count cuz he didn't have a significant role). So expecting him to do better than 68 million opening weekend in the US was dumb.

 

If they're lucky it'll break even before it leaves theaters.

[Rev8]

1 hour ago, Repelex said:

67M for a movie about a villain GP knows nothing about and in a franchise that has struggled with maintaining a faithful audience is not the catastrophic event you're making it out to be. The thing it's gonna keep it from turning a huge profit is the budget. 

This

the random marvel stan trying it in every DC thread

[Blue Rose]

The mental gymnastics by that Marvel stan to make this look bad. This is huge  

[Blue Rose]

3 hours ago, Broken said:

Shazam!:

Starring Zachary Lewis, a nobody.

someone has never watched Chuck and that’s sad