Aquaman has the lowest opening weekend in DCEU

Aquaman has the lowest opening weekend in DCEU Dec 26, 2018 13:24:02 GMT

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Post by sostie on Dec 26, 2018 13:24:02 GMT

Dec 26, 2018 12:46:31 GMT Tristan's Journal said:

Dec 26, 2018 11:08:50 GMT sostie said:

Based on the figures on Box Office Mojo, it seems not that spectacular (though neither are they disastrous).

It has beaten the 5 previous DCEU films released in China. Which is easily the biggest market outside the US. But this may also be why it looks like it has done so well so quickly worldwide...it's the only DCEU film to be released in China before the US, so it ascent to close to the $500m does look quick.

In the traditionally 2 other biggest markets outside the US & China - UK and Mexico it's bottom of the 6 films for opening weekends.

Of the other territories available, the opening weekend out of the 6 DCEU films place it

Brazil 5th
Croatia 1st (out of 2)*
Czech Rep 1st*
Greece 4th (out of 5)*
Hungary 1st*
Iceland 6th*
Lithuania 3rd (out of 4)*
Netherlands 4th
Portugal 3rd
Russia 3rd
Slovakia 2nd*
Slovenia 2nd (out of 5)*
South Africa 5th*
Ukraine 1st

Those marked * opened under $1m...in most cases under $500k.

lol not "disastrous" is an understatement bordering on butt sore. It's a Aquaman movie (!) following up on JusticeLeague (!) in December (!!) yet beating MarryPoppins, Transformers, Spiderman (!!!) in the big key markets by a wide margin and having just opened already crossed 500M with a 160-200 budget (!!!!), which is as "spectacular" as the movie itself!!!!1

Do you hear an octopus playing drums under water? Some just can't.

Or speaking of drums, take it this way, Antman2 of the currently most popular CBM franchise (MCU) and following up on the final-act smash Avengers-InfinityWar made $622,674,139 worldwide in it's entire run.

Or put it that way, dead fish, just like raccoon turds, always float at the shallow end of the sea. Aquaman is neither.

I did nothing more than state the figures available. And from those it doesn't look as if it has exceeded most DCEU movies in the foreign markets, only significantly in China

As for the some of the other movies you mentioned...well Mary Poppins has already beaten Aquaman in the UK, but it has yet to be released in most of the "big key markets". There are only figures for Bumblebee for one of the 10 "key" markets, Russia. But that's neither here nor there. You stated it had surpassed most other DCEU films in foreign markets..I found that an interesting statement, looked it up, and it seemed it hadn't really. That's ALL I was commenting on. Not the quality of the film. Not it's performance in the US. Not it's perfomance compared to other current releases or non DCEU films.

I apologise if the use of the phrase "neither is it a disaster" upset you so much.