Aquaman Box Office Thread

[frankgutz]

Some people just love to overreact, it's not like Aquaman is doing Steel, Jonah Hex, Watchmen, Catwoman, Green Lantern numbers, and even with bombs like those it hasn't stopped WB at doing DC movies

 

[Juan1193]

Lol I left to go see Aquaman with my family (I take them to see all the DC films, started with SS) and I missed the drama with Spidey? Lol dude/girl is delusional! No way can you spin this in a bad way! Its doing amazing and the movie was amazing too!!! WOM better take off because it's worth seeing on the big screen multiple times.

Think I need to update my top 10 movie rankings now that 2018 is over xD

 

[brandeezy89]

If AQM is doing bad then Bumblebee, Mary Poppins, & Spiderverse are all box office bombs

 

[dennis_3107]

Its bad enough they said it once. Afraid of being ignore, they came up with a longer and more delusional post.

 

[Micromind]

I think Mary Poppins is going to underperform, Spider Man into the Spiderverse will be massively successful in Asia, while Aquaman and Bumblebee will have decent legs. Aquaman is already overperforming in many regions.

 

[Greenlite]

Its bad enough they said it once. Afraid of being ignore, they came up with a longer and more delusional post.

By experience this dude's gonna come back tomorrow and ignore all the replies from today, and post something moronic and idiotic, and the conclusion is that we're all delusional here.

I've seeing way too many of these people this year, putting out the facts about their "god" (a "cool" and the hottest politician here that's tricking 80% of people under 40 y/o while 40+ can see right through) and those fans repeat the unsustainable arguments and ignore the counter-facts and accuse you of being illogical and ******ed.

 

[Lucellit]

I think Mary Poppins is going to underperform, Spider Man into the Spiderverse will be massively successful in Asia, while Aquaman and Bumblebee will have decent legs. Aquaman is already overperforming in many regions.

I think I like this scenario better (on track to doing so).
Nothing bombs, BO people are pretty cruel and exaggerated mean things towards massively underperformed or bombed movies, sometimes it's tiring.
I'd love to have more from those franchises (although Poppins isn't a franchise yet).

 

[Greenlite]

I think Mary Poppins is going to underperform, Spider Man into the Spiderverse will be massively successful in Asia, while Aquaman and Bumblebee will have decent legs. Aquaman is already overperforming in many regions.

I wonder if AM will crack 350M overseas minus China, I think we need it to reach 400M while in the US get to 300M to crack a billion

my little quick projection is 315M then have to factor in holidays and markets yet to open (AUS/NZ/Jap etc) so could be around 350M....

 

[Greenlite]

I think I like this scenario better (on track to doing so).
Nothing bombs, BO people are pretty cruel and exaggerated mean things towards massively underperformed or bombed movies, sometimes it's tiring.
I'd love to have more from those franchises (although Poppins isn't a franchise yet).

I don't think those 2 are bombs (Spidey is doing fine as well), but Mary is endanger of doing a Solo and BB could end up like First Class, and come back big in the next round.

Though BB got me back to the theater so surely it will do alright in its traditional stronghold esp Asia/China....and 20-30M OW prob means it won't do a Jumanji 400M but it might surprise with 300M, should be able to do 100M+ at the worst

 

[Zant]

 

[Lucellit]

I don't think those 2 are bombs (Spidey is doing fine as well), but Mary is endanger of doing a Solo and BB could end up like First Class, and come back big in the next round.

Though BB got me back to the theater so surely it will do alright in its traditional stronghold esp Asia/China....and 20-30M OW prob means it won't do a Jumanji 400M but it might surprise with 300M, should be able to do 100M+ at the worst

I agree, Spider-Verse and BB are doing just fine. I don't know what kind of gangbuster numbers some people expected from them just because they're from juggernaut franchises.
Their sequels have potentials to be bigger like you said.

Speaking of Solo, now I heard about how it'd be more profitable if it opened in December with MPR's date. Dunno. I think Solo needs stronger marketing more than just swapping dates.

Also, one of bad things we got from last December is somehow every December movie is required to has Jumanji/ Greatest Showman type of legs.
I'm sure if everything somehow goes bad and Aquaman isn't as leggy, it will be called by some as 'Aquaflop'.
Whatever, I'm very happy by its performance so far.

 

[HammerDown]

I actually voted under 500M for this poll.

Well i was obviously wrong because it's almost cracking the 500M mark. Had no idea there would be such an interest in this property. Then again China came, once again, to the rescue with an absolutely insane +220M. Go figure China's interest in movies, they seem to like MCU movies but don't like Star Wars movies, then Venom does a mind-blowing 270M over there, the Meg did 153M... It's a bit of a mystery the Chinese box office and it could easily change the profit balance of any movie at any given time.

Aquaman made 67M opening weekend in the US. That number was more in line with my early predictions. Even though it's actually lower than i anticipated. It isn't a great result. I guess it may make around 200/250M domestically. I guess it will probably do around 750M WW which would be a fantastic result. Subtract those +220M from China and my early guess would be more in line with the final result.

With this result, it just shows that the DCEU is still very much alive and people want to see more which in itself is a victory after the previous disasters.

 

[BaelaTargaryen]

I guess it will probably do around 750M WW which would be a fantastic result. Subtract those +220M from China and my early guess would be more in line with the final result.

According to people from boxoffice sites 850m worldwide is currently the floor for Aquaman, 900m is very likely and 1b is possible. It's on track to make 700+m overseas.

 

[Iceman]

‘Aquaman’ Splashes To $483M WW; ‘Spider-Verse’ Leads China; ‘Bumblebee’ Bows With $31M – International Box Office

This thing is an absolute beast!!

 

[Iceman]

According to people from boxoffice sites 850m worldwide is currently the floor for Aquaman, 900m is very likely and 1b is possible. It's on track to make 700+m overseas.

Bloody hell. It’s turning into a sensation everywhere.

 

[Micromind]

Bloody hell. It’s turning into a sensation everywhere.

Yes, it is.

 

[NotNickFury]

I love how sites like Screenrant are zeroing in on this having the lowest opening domestic gross for a DCEU film, never mind how that's immediately negated by the amount of cash that the film has brought in overseas already. Plus, competition and holiday weekend and the number will no doubt go up when you factor in today and tomorrow.

 

[Iceman]

I love how sites like Screenrant are zeroing in on this having the lowest opening domestic gross for a DCEU film, never mind how that's immediately negated by the amount of cash that the film has brought in overseas already. Plus, competition and holiday weekend and the number will no doubt go up when you factor in today and tomorrow.

Also those were Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and JL films. Only SS should have been a potential target for an Aquaman film to beat.

 

[Silver Surfer]

I love how sites like Screenrant are zeroing in on this having the lowest opening domestic gross for a DCEU film, never mind how that's immediately negated by the amount of cash that the film has brought in overseas already. Plus, competition and holiday weekend and the number will no doubt go up when you factor in today and tomorrow.

It's like I posted earlier, you're going to see a lot of click bait headlines like "Lowest DCEU opening ever" "DCEU's Domestic OW declines 4th time in a row" "Aquaman opens lower than Ant-Man 2" etc. It's too much of an attention grabber for them to report the story this way, and I'm sure if Shazam opens lower than Aquaman you'll hear the same thing over again. It's going to be a minute before DC gets the positive end of the spin by the buzz-feeders.

 

[Iceman]

At least these will all no longer be relevant after OW is out of the way and hopefully the focus moves on to its huge overall WW number.

 

[BaelaTargaryen]

 

[TheScarecrow]

We should be well clear of $500M worldwide - from BOM it doesn’t seem that most of the international grosses have been updated since opening weekend?

 

[rashad]

Aquaman made 67M opening weekend in the US. That number was more in line with my early predictions. Even though it's actually lower than i anticipated. It isn't a great result. I guess it may make around 200/250M domestically. I guess it will probably do around 750M WW which would be a fantastic result. Subtract those +220M from China and my early guess would be more in line with the final result.

With this result, it just shows that the DCEU is still very much alive and people want to see more which in itself is a victory after the previous disasters.

$68 million is a good result given the time of year, this isn't a Star Wars film, The next highest grossing film is The Hobbit with $84 million. Plus facing comp from MP, SM:ItS, and BB naturally ate into it's receipts. It's all about legs this time of year. There's not another big release for quite awhile.

The film is on pace to do 650-700 million overseas by itself.

And China is over $232 million

 

[BaelaTargaryen]

 

[Mysteryman]

I actually voted under 500M for this poll.

Well i was obviously wrong because it's almost cracking the 500M mark. Had no idea there would be such an interest in this property. Then again China came, once again, to the rescue with an absolutely insane +220M. Go figure China's interest in movies, they seem to like MCU movies but don't like Star Wars movies, then Venom does a mind-blowing 270M over there, the Meg did 153M... It's a bit of a mystery the Chinese box office and it could easily change the profit balance of any movie at any given time.

Aquaman made 67M opening weekend in the US. That number was more in line with my early predictions. Even though it's actually lower than i anticipated. It isn't a great result. I guess it may make around 200/250M domestically. I guess it will probably do around 750M WW which would be a fantastic result. Subtract those +220M from China and my early guess would be more in line with the final result.

With this result, it just shows that the DCEU is still very much alive and people want to see more which in itself is a victory after the previous disasters.

Nothing wrong with caution man.
Under 500 million is a reasonable forecast for Aquaman
After all we didn't expect a 96 million dollar OW forJL.