{"id":104440,"date":"2022-10-22T04:49:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T04:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/black-adam-powers-to-25-million-on-friday-deadline\/"},"modified":"2022-10-22T04:49:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T04:49:59","slug":"black-adam-powers-to-25-million-on-friday-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/black-adam-powers-to-25-million-on-friday-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Adam’ Powers To $25 Million On Friday \u2013 Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tUPDATE, Friday late afternoon: <\/strong>We are hearing from sources that Black Man<\/strong> <\/em>is set to make $25 million on Friday, which would easily be the best opening day for Dwayne Johnson among his solo projects. That list includes Hobbs & Shaw <\/em>($23.6M), Mummy Returns <\/em>($23.1M) Jumanji: Next Level <\/em>($19.7M) <\/em>and San Andreas<\/em> ($18.1M). Today’s $25M includes last night’s $7.6M in preview screenings.<\/p>\n

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\tA $25M first day currently puts the New Line\/DC movie at a $60M start. Families could put this higher tomorrow; we’ll see. Hobbs & Shaw <\/em>opened to $60M during the first weekend of August 2019. Black Man <\/em>is also 16% behind F9 <\/em>($29.9M), which got to a $70M opening. Triple note: Johnson didn’t star in F9<\/em>however, it’s being used as a comp. Black Man <\/em>is booked at 4,402 theaters.<\/p>\n

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\tUniversal owns the second and third spots, respectively, during this domestic box office frame with the George Clooney-Julia Roberts rom-com Ticket to Paradise<\/strong> <\/em>($5.5M Friday, $13.7M opening at 3,543 theaters) and the second weekend of Halloween Ends <\/em>($2.7M Friday, off 87%, good for $8.7M at 3,901 theaters, -78%; running total $54.8M).<\/p>\n

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\tThe fourth weekend of Paramount horror movie smile <\/em>is fourth at 3,296 theaters. Its Friday is at $2.7M, -30%, a three-day total of $8.9M, -29%, and a running total of $84.8M. <\/p>\n

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\tSony’s third weekend of Lyle, Lyle Crocodile <\/em>at 3,536 theaters is seeing a Friday of $1.3M, -35%; a 3-day of $4.8M, -35%; and a running total of $29.3M.<\/p>\n

\n\tPREVIOUSLY, Friday AM: <\/strong>The New Line-DC Dwayne Johnson movie Black Man<\/strong> <\/em>racked up $7.6 million<\/strong> in previews at 3,500 locations Thursday, a figure that beats the superstar’s previous preview nights for Fast and Furious 6<\/em> ($7.5M), Hobbs and Shaw<\/em> ($5.8M), Jumanji: The Next Level <\/em>($4.7M), San Andreas <\/em>($3.1M) and ramp <\/em>($2.4M). This is at least a very good start for Black Adam. <\/em>Fans always come out on Thursday night; let’s hope it keeps up. <\/p>\n

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\tWhile critics aren’t fans at 43% Rotten, the audience score on Rotten Tomatoes is much better at 88%. Previews began yesterday at 3 pm <\/p>\n

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\tother comps Black Man <\/em>is besting so far include F9<\/em> ($7.1M, which Johnson didn’t star in), Ant-Man <\/em>($6.4M), Shazam! <\/em>($5.9M) and No Time to Die <\/em>($5.6M). F9<\/em> opened to $70 million in May 2021, with the rest of those comps debuting in the $50M range.<\/p>\n

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\tThe latest tracking for Black Man<\/em> is $60M-plus for its first frame, cooling down from its $70M number when it first arrived on tracking. The question remains how critical-proof this movie can be. In the new world order of box office at this stage of the pandemic, tentpoles have proved to be critic proof, ie, Jurassic World Dominion <\/em>wasn’t slowed by a 29% on Rotten Tomatoes and opened to $145M. There hasn’t been anything as glossy, star-studded and tentpole-y like Black Man <\/em>since Sony’s Bullet Train, <\/em>which opened to $30M during the first weekend of August. Audiences are starving, and hopefully for the sake of exhibition and Warner Bros, won’t scrutinize this new DC superhero too severely before making a decision to go to the movies this weekend. <\/p>\n

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\tAs is standard with Johnson, the overseas prospects for Black Man <\/em>are brighter than domestic; industry outlook for a global start this weekend is around $135M. <\/p>\n

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\tJohnson’s two highest preview nights were on films in which he was part of an ensemble: Furious 7 <\/em>($15.8M) and Fate of the Fu<\/em>rious<\/em> ($10.4M). <\/p>\n

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‘Ticket to Paradise’<\/span><\/p>\n

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\tUniversal meanwhile held previews for its George Clooney-Julia Roberts romantic comedy Ticket to Paradise, <\/strong><\/em>which made $1.1M at 3,000 theaters off showtimes that began at 5 pm The studio is hoping for around $12M. The film from Working Title, Smokehouse and Red Om Films has already bagged close to $73M from 75 offshore markets, where it was No. 1 in 45 of those including Brazil, Germany, Italy, Spain and UK. <\/p>\n

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\tUniversal had the No. 1 movie of the week with Blumhouse\/Miramax’s Halloween Ends<\/strong><\/em>, also available on Peacock, which did $46.1M at 3,901 theaters. Pic is expected to decline severely due to its avail on the streamer, in the 70% range. It made $1.02M on Thursday, and was beat by Paramount’s smile<\/strong> <\/em>which did $1.07M at 3,612. That genre movie in its third week did $17.2M, good for a running total of $76M.<\/p>\n

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\tSony’s second week of Lyle, Lyle Crocodile<\/strong> <\/em>at 4,350 did $430,000 on Thursday, $9.1M for the week and has a running total of $24.6M.<\/p>\n

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\tThe studio’s TriStar label owned fourth with The Woman King<\/strong> <\/em>at 2,565 theaters, a $240K Thursday, $4.9M fifth week and running cume of $61M.<\/p>\n

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\tIconic Releasing’s Terrifier 2 <\/em>in 700 sites did $220K yesterday, a $1.9M second week and running total of $3.4M.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n