Aquaman swims, Mary Poppins just floats

Aquaman easily took the first spot at the US/Canada box office by bringing exactly the initial expectations of a $67.4 million opening. Because of the film's great success overseas, some predictors were talking about a $100 million debut (and it will get there, but in 5 days, not 3), but at the end of the day it delivered the lowest DCEU opening so far despite having some of the best audience ratings of all. But don't feel bad for WB or Jason Momoa: overseas the film is outpacing every single one of the prior DCEU films and regardless of how it ends its run in America, the movie is already a cash cow of $482.8 million worldwide, remaining #1 internationally for three weeks in a row (something unheard of for a DCEU film) and it still has a few more markets to open in the next few weeks so all is guarantee that this film will be even more profitable. In China alone it has made so far and counting $232 million, turning it into one of the most successful Hollywood films in that country. Yep, there will be an 'Aquaman 2'.

In a distant second spot and regardless of all the praises it got from critics and its Best Picture Golden Globes nominations, Disney's Mary Poppins Returns debuted with a not-so-magical $22.2 million. I know that media writers are trying very hard to pretend this is a good opening number, while Disney has not disclosed the film's budget, we know that this is not an art film and it cost over a $100 million if not even more. It might double that number by Christmas day, but still is not enough to justify its expensive budget and its insane marketing which is EVERYWHERE. Unless the film's word of mouth keeps bringing more audiences in the following weeks, this could end up being one of the year's flops next to recent big budget flops like 'Robin Hood' and the disastrous 'Mortal Engines' which might have tarnished Peter Jackson's career as an A-list director.

Another crash & burn big budget film debuting this weekend is BumbleBee which claimed the third spot with a similar anemic $21 million. The studio releasing this Transformers spin-off didn't hide its $135 million budget, and internationally has only grabbed $31 million for a global total of $51 million. Not exactly "Aquaman". The idea of a Transformers expanded universe was a dumb one to start with and this film's numbers have proven it. Not everybody can have a Marvel-like cinematic universe. Sorry. Personally I feel bad for its main actress, Hailee Steinfield, which is a very good actress with a string of flops under her belt. Might end up just a character actor in secondary roles from now on. Which brings to mind the stupid notion of some studios of casting critically acclaimed & award winning actors to action films where they will be basically just part of the film's props for the special effects. No matter how a good actor Adrian Brody is, he was wrong as the lead for 'King Kong' and 'Predators'. Have they had cast a proven action star like Dwayne Johnson for 'Predators', the film would have performed way much better.

In the fourth spot is last week's #1 film, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse which had a 52.8% decline from its debut with $16.7 million. Despite all the media hoopla, this film has not lived up to its expectations. With a $90 million budget (plus an undisclosed amount for marketing) the current numbers are too weak to warrant the spin-offs Sony has been hoping for. The film has two first for a Spider-Man film: it has gathered the best reviews and the worst box office. I am suspicious about the glowing reviews, to be honest, because when many of those includes words like 'diversity', "inclusive", "female empowered" that tells me that a big chunk of those reviews are pure PC agenda pushing bullshit. See how that worked for that Nutcracker fiasco.

In the fifth place is Clint Eastwood's The Mule which in its sophomore week took $9.9 million or a 43% drop from its debut which is not bad. So far the 88 year old actor's movie has grossed $35 million and has served as a nice counter film from all the special effects epics for senior audience members.

In the sixth spot is the true sleeper hit of the season Dr. Seuss The Grinch. This little Universal Animation film debuted six weeks ago and has remained in the top 10 list without losing much steam. It was finally dropped out of the top five this week with $8.1 million for a domestic total so far of $253 million while globally has amassed $422 million, making it one of the biggest hits of the year. And watch it climb back to the top 5 on Tuesday as it is the single sole Christmas movie playing at theaters nationwide.

JLo's return to movies aptly titled Second Act was met with 'meh' from critics and audiences landing in the seventh spot with $6.5 million. But don't feel too bad about the Boricua Diva: the film had just a $16 million budget and there is a chance it will not lose money at the end of its run after all.

 

Talking about Clint Eastwood, his youngest daughters are a real sight (just look at that dude behind them checking their asses).

 

Paedophilprssss' usual cut-n-paste job from another website.

Well done, kiddie-fiddler.

 

Please do a Google search and post the link from where all my ORIGINAL writing was copied.

Asshole

 

Good report but leave the kids alone please.

 

Transformers expanded universe??? LMAO!!

 

Panch is not worth much but I do like these reports

 

You mean generic reports on how many millions of dollars a load of utterly shit movies have grossed against their budgets?




Different strokes for different folks...

 

Agree. A little bit of redemption for Punchy.

 

You guys care how much money movies make?

 

Fixed.

Yeah, they probably do.

 

I tell people I don't, but deep down inside, I do.

ReAl TaLk.................

 

"I know what you're thinking looking at my daughter, you creep - did he fire six shots or only five?"

 

"I know what you're thinking, nonce. 'What did they look like at 6 or 5?' Well now you need to ask yourself 'why am I yucky?' Well, why are ya, nonce?"

 

"Go ahead. Make my day (by bringing their pictures)."

 

Aquaman dominated the box office again this past weekend and is projected to hold the top spot for the third time this coming weekend. So far it has grossed $216 million domestically and over $607 million internationally with a current world wide tally (and counting) of $823 million, surpassing the final total global numbers of Wonder Woman. It is also the #2 most successful superhero film in China and DCEU most successful film internationally. There are still a few countries (like Japan) where it hasn't opened yet, so this film has a good shot at getting close to the $1 billion mark; a feat unheard of for any DCEU film to date. Ironic that it might not reach the domestic numbers of 'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice' ($330 million), but that film made $100 million more ($166 m) on its opening weekend, only to go on cardiac arrest the following week.

 

Wow.
Shit CGI movies that made some more dollars.

 

Can someone please shoot Mostardard?

 

Working on it...

 

Aquaman easily took again the #1 spot both in North America & internationally for the third straight week. This weekend it added $30.7 million domestic gross for a current $260 million so far and is currently at exactly the same pace as Wonder Woman was performing at this point. The Warner Bros film has now topped $681 million internationally, the highest number for any DCEU, including the Nolan Dark Knight films. Worldwide it stands at $940 million and now the question is not if it will reach the $1 billion mark, but when.
Not bad for the character long viewed as comicbook's biggest target for jokes. Just a year ago many were predicting disastrous performance for this film. All credit must go to James Wang, who decided to pass on The Flash movie he originally agreed to and jumped into this film only because he wanted to put sea monsters in the film.

Oh and that new horror film Escape Room debuted in the second spot with $18 million. Mary Poppins Returns continues underperforming with $15.5 million in the third spot.

And while practically no one in the industry talks about Clint Eastwood's The Mule, in its limited release the film has quietly grossed so far $81 million and counting. Any other film would have been hyped by the Hollywood media if it was doing these numbers. It now ranks among the top grosser films for Clint Eastwood whose age apparently doesn't diminish his box office appeal.

 

Interesting situation this weekend. While it was expected that Aquaman would easily grab the top spot this weekend, tying DCEU record with 'Wonder Woman', out of the left field came 'The Upside' and took the #1 spot with $19.5 million. That was surprising because critics trashed the film, but apparently audiences like it. More important, it stars Kevin Hart, fresh from his Oscar fallout controversy and ironically the biggest chunk of ticket buyers happened to be Caucasians (African Americans made only 14%) from, get this, mainly Conservative States. The film did poorly in blue states like New York & California, but exceeded expectations in Texas for example. It seems that those that supported Hart's decision to not bow down to PC bullies went and supported his movie.

As for 'Aquaman' which moved to the second spot with $17.2 million it made DCEU history by becoming the very first of their films to reach the $1 billion mark. Not bad for a film that was seen as a potential flop. That raises the value of its stars, but more important of its director, James Wan, who has scored his second billion dollar grosser in his resume.

 

Well Bumblebee have turned a profit even though is still the lowest grossing Transformer film ever. It currently stands at $124 million domestically, $455 worldwide just $6 million shy of the final domestic gross of the previous Transformers f, but that one earned $605 million worldwide. This one will not come close to that global total. That said, Hailee Steinfield is now looking much better (way much better...look at those legs!).