‘Black Adam’ Has Huge Opening Weekend at Box Office

DC Comics followers know Black Adam, however within the wider moviegoing world, he’s a really obscure character. So when folks confirmed up this weekend for the film in massive numbers, it wasn’t essentially the droves and droves of Black Adam followers that made the film a success. It was Dwayne Johnson followers, in search of the prospect to see their favourite play a comic-book hero for the primary time.

After its opening weekend, Black Adam has grossed an estimate $67 million. It’s not technically the largest of any film that Johnson has appeared in — a number of  Fast & Furious films had greater opening weekends — however when it comes to movies the place Johnson was the principle and first star, it’s the greatest field workplace debut of his whole profession. (In truth, it even did higher than Johnson‘s Fast & Furious spinoff, Hobbs & Shaw, which was a two-hander starring him and Jason Statham. That film grossed $60.0 million in U.S. theaters in its opening weekend back in 2019.)

In terms of recent DC movies, Black Adam is among the biggest opening weekends but not the champ. Earlier this year, The Batman debuted in theaters with $134 million in theaters. But, of course, that’s Batman we’re speaking about; probably the greatest identified and widespread superheroes in historical past. Black Adam is a comparatively minor character, largely identified (if identified at all) as a Shazam villain or a member of the Justice Society of America. And Black Adam opened about equal with Aquaman, which had a $67.8 million opening weekend in 2018. And Aquaman is a far greater identify who had already appeared in Batman v Superman and Justice League by the point his film got here out. So this can be a fairly stable quantity for Black Adam, all issues thought of.

The subsequent DC film coming to theaters is Shazam! Fury of the Gods, which is at the moment scheduled for launch on March 17, 2023.