‘Black Adam’ Tops $30M Overseas In First 3 Days; Still Tracking To Near $70M Offshore Bow - Deadline

SATURDAY UPDATE: Black Adam added a big of 19 markets connected Friday and has present cumed $30.2M done its archetypal 3 days astatine the international container office. Friday rocked $15.8M with the Dwayne Johnson-starrer ranking arsenic the No. 1 U.S. movie successful each 76 markets successful release. With these results, we are inactive eyeing the $70M scope for the opening play overseas.

In caller starts, Friday added the UK with $2M connected 1,500 screens and ranking a wide No. 1 with 58% stock of the Top 5 films.  The results are +52% over Shazam!, 53% up of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, 129% supra Jungle Cruise and 291% up of Skyscraper.  IMAX stock was a precise coagulated 9% of the full container office.

Also joining the fray, Spain debuted connected Friday to $587K connected 689 screens. Black Adam dominated the marketplace with astir 60% stock of the Top 5; premium formats are performing precise good capturing 4.6% of the full container office. Opening time results are tracking up of Jumanji 2 (+38%), Shazam! (+79%), Skyscraper (+187%) and Jungle Cruise (+231%).

Currently, the Top 5 markets done Friday are the UK ($2M), Mexico ($1.9M), Brazil ($1.8M), India ($1.7M) and Australia ($1.7M).

Anecdotally, we are proceeding the household play is stronger than expected. 

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PREVIOUS, FRIDAY: Warner Bros/New Line/DC’s Black Adam began rolling retired astatine the planetary container bureau connected Wednesday, and done Thursday has rocked to $13.8M from 57 markets. Today adds the UK and Spain arsenic overseas merchandise continues.

Initial markets to spell connected Wednesday included France and Korea. In the former, the Dwayne Johnson-starrer has grossed $1M done its archetypal 2 days. In Korea, the movie leads each play by a wide margin. It is pursuing the emblematic rhythm successful the marketplace of a apical commencement connected Wednesday, past a driblet connected Thursday, and a bounce connected Friday and has a moving cume of $1.3M done contiguous (that full is not reflected successful the two-day offshore cume above).

A notable commencement connected Thursday was India with $1M which marks the 2nd biggest ever debut for Warner Bros and the biggest besides for DC. The Diwali vacation is ahead.

Elsewhere, Mexico’s $850K Thursday commencement was 9% supra Johnson-starrer Jumanji: The Next Level and 63% implicit his 2018 actioner Skyscraper. 

In Australia, the $750K Thursday opening was 80% higher than Skyscraper and 87% above Shazam! 

While an overseas play doesn’t truly get borne retired until we get Friday numbers, we are expecting Black Adam to onshore adjacent to our projected opening range; critics are down connected it, but fans are faithful.  As Anthony reported, the home previews were robust.

Audiences are hungering for caller product, and, wherever it lands, let’s anticipation this is the kickstart for times ahead.

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