Box Office: ‘Aquaman 2’ Laps Up $13.7 Million Opening Day, Leading Holiday Newcomers ‘Migration,’ ‘Iron Claw’ and ‘Anyone but You’
variety.comJ. Kim Murphy ‘Twas the weekend before Christmas and all through the theaters, “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” was the box office leader.
The latest and final entry in the current iteration of the DC Comics universe got off to a less-than-splashy start with $13.7 million on opening day across 3,706 locations — getting a boost from showtimes in premium large format auditoriums like Imax.
It’s a downtick from the original “Aquaman,” which posted a $27.7 million opening day around the holidays in 2018. The writing’s been on the wall for a while with the Warner Bros.
release, with the studio seemingly having moved on as James Gunn prepares his reboot of DC Comics properties with “Superman: Legacy.” Even star Jason Momoa has stated that “it’s not looking too good” for his potential future as the King of Atlantis — hardly the encouraging rhetoric usually seen in a promotional junket.
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