'Aquaman' Rakes in Good Money in Early Showings
by EG
DC's Aquaman is probably going to win a relatively sleepy pre-Christmas weekend, but it will have solid competition from Bumblebee and Mary Poppins Returns. Read on for details.
Via Deadline.
Aquaman, as we saw it, is coming in with $9M, and when counting all of its Amazon and Wednesday paid sneaks of $4.7M, that’s $13.7M for the DC oceanic superhero to date stateside.
Paramount is reporting $2.15M for Bumblebee‘s last and with its $700K Dec. 8 sneaks that’s $2.85M to date. Bumblebee and Aquaman had previews starting at 5PM.
Meanwhile, Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns amid the competition of a big fish in the marketplace last night and Paramount’s Bumblebee remain quite very solid with $4M, -17% from Wednesday for a two-day take of $8.8M. She led all films in regular release last night.
STX’s Second Act earned $515K at 2,607 locations. Earlier week projections saw the Jennifer Lopez romantic comedy with $10M+ over 5 days, STX is seeing $8M. They’re looking to recoup the $15.7M net production cost and P&A in the long run. Pic, directed by Peter Segal, plays in 2,607 theaters today. Previews last night started at 7PM.
Universal/DreamWorks also had Robert Zemeckis’ drama Welcome to Marwen in previews last night, and expected they weren’t very good with $190K at 1,600 theaters. The movie will play in 1,911 theaters. Critics loathe the film at 24% Rotten.
Like we mentioned yesterday, this weekend is just a dress rehearsal to see these pics off for play after Christmas; Aquaman being the exception because he’s going to drink up most of the water. That said the holiday season is a game of chutes and ladders, and we’ll have some losers (sorry Marwen).
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