Lately, DC Studios has been busy getting its house in order and reestablishing itself in a position of power after a long time occupied with abandoned projects and corporate gaffes. The franchise recently brought back fan-favorite actor Henry Cavill for another Superman project and announced a significant change in the hierarchy with James Gunn and Peter Safran as co-CEOs.
To add to this list of victories, two of the DC films released this year including Jaume Collet-Serra black adam and that of Matt Reeves The Batmanlanded a sparkling position in the top 3 box office champion films.
Directed by Dwayne Johnson black adam failed to impress early reviewers and critics, but the film posted its release remarkably well, with audiences claiming to love it and the film’s box office taking home a pretty huge sum domestically alone. And DC fans naturally took this golden opportunity to show this unexpected success of their franchise to the Marvel fandom.
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black adam and The Batman became the box office champion movies of 2022
Currently in its third week of release, black adamThe weekend box office collection is looking pretty good with a total of $18.5 million, which shouldn’t be such a big surprise considering how the movie managed to earn around $67. million in its opening week.
Global box office earnings for DC’s latest film topped $300 million and currently stand at a hefty sum of around $319 million, with the film grossing over $130 million domestically alone via the national circuit.
Returning to The Batmanwhich was released earlier this year in March with the Dusk starring Robert Pattinson and Divergent actress Zoë Kravitz as the star of the cast, is yet another DC film which has secured a position as one of the box office champion films in addition black adam. Directed by Matt Reeves, The Batman grossed $751.1 million worldwide and is one of the highest-grossing films released this year.
With such stellar results both domestically and internationally, the DC fandom is soaring on the ninth cloud and has made a point of not letting Marvel fans hear the end of it.
DC fans are flashing the franchise’s recent success against Marvel
Apart from black adam and The Batman, marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness also resides as a contender in the top 3 box office champion films. The superhero adventure film starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange and Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff has grossed an estimated $388 million in the United States and a $520 million surplus there. ‘foreign.
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But even after all that, DC fans still seem more than happy to show off two of their films winning the race with just one Marvel movie in the top 3.
Black Adam was phenomenal
— Ezezen Speed (@ezezenspeed) November 6, 2022
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@ErikDavis @TheRock #BlackAdamMovie @TheDC_Syndicate The team should be really proud of making this DC anti-hero less popular, just as popular.
— Movie Fanatic (@SShaj007) November 6, 2022
Fans recognize and encourage black adam for doing it well despite claiming the first negative reviews from critics and already being excited about a supposed sequel to the film.
I can’t wait to see the sequel!! 🔥🔥🔥⚡⚡⚡🙌🙌
—Aron (@Aron_123599) November 7, 2022
Black Adam is doing better than haters think
— JosieComWonkru (@HosieComWonkru) November 7, 2022
Although black adam seems to be working well, rumors that the movie won’t be released in China have started to surface, which, if true, would be a devastating blow to the movie as well as Warner Bros.
More information about this has yet to be revealed.
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