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Box Office: 'Aquaman' Has Earned Over $60M In Just Two Days In China
Scott MendelsonSenior Contributor
Hollywood & Entertainment
I cover the film industry.

‘Aquaman’WARNER BROS.

The only newbie news in terms of wide releases is the Chinese debut of Aquaman, which is kicking undersea butt in what will soon be the biggest moviegoing marketplace in the world. The James Wan-directed adventure opens around the world next week followed by a North American debut on December 21, but it set sail in China ahead of the pack. China Film Group made the right call. Warner Bros. and friends have been selling the hell out of the movie, in the hopes that Chinese audiences would be pleased by the DC Films fantasy origin story. I haven’t seen it yet (insert Paddington stare), so I can only hope that the strong word-of-mouth over there (Maoyan at 9.5, Taopiaopiao at 9.2 and Douban at 8.4) means that it’s appropriately outrageous.



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Aquaman Nets $25 Million Friday in China, a Warner Bros Record
by SAM STONE – on Dec 07, 2018 in MOVIES, MOVIE NEWS


Still two weeks away from its North American release and Aquaman is already making big waves as it opens overseas.

The latest DCEU film has earned $24.6 million in China during its first full opening day after earning $1.19 million from Thursday night previews. This gives the film the highest earning opening day box office of any Warner Bros. release in the country. The previous record holder was Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice which earned $21.2 million on its opening day including Thursday previews in 2016.

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Well on its way to having the best opening weekend box office of any DCEU film in film in China, the highest opening weekend total for the studio currently remains with Batman v. Superman, which earned $57.2 over the course of its first weekend in theaters.

With strong word-of-mouth buzz and Chinese audiences especially receptive to Hollywood superhero films, the studio hopes Aquaman will have staying power at the cinemas as last year's Justice League is the only DCEU film to date to earn over $100 million cumulatively in China. And with its impressive Chinese opening, the studio's tentative plans for a sequel have just taken a much larger step towards becoming a reality.

E pain them...

Someone must be jobless!!!

Hiding their disappointment... They think we don't know... All the buzz about the name... Endgame? What a joke!!!

Endgame? So pathetic a name!
Sounds like Ender's Game!!!

Minemrys:
for an entrepreneur, WB fear risk above everything else.

It's frugality bro... No need taking a risk you need not take!!!

Minemrys:
films are made for a target audience and target market. Without them, the studio would be out of business. Disney kn0ws this, that's why they're able to trump the market. WB doesn't. They just rely on a loyal fan base like harry potter and CB fans. They don't branch out to include other publics or audience.

So why didnt MAN OF STEEL and BVS blow as expected despite following your logic?

The market is volatile and unpredictable... Solo: A Star Wars Story bombed, and when asked Disney said they didn't know what happened... And that's a movie in a money spinning franchise...
You can't blame DC for choosing to side with movies that are already guaranteed to be box office hits. As well as the entertainment, profit must be made, taxes paid, plus a whole lot of costs involved which are mostly not reported.
@bolded, Warner Bros already had a fantastic year branching out with successive box office hits:
- Ready Player One
- The Meg
- Crazy Rich Asians
- Detective Chinatown 2
- Rampage
- The Nun
- Ocean 8
- Paddington 2
- etc

Minemrys:
Warner Bros. are just too greedy. Because of the BO projections of Aquaman, they've started making plans for an Aquaman 2 just like they did wonder woman. What abt the ever slowing Flash film or stiff Man of Steel sequel or The Batman? That was 0ne of my reasons wanting Aquaman to fail. WB won't make decisi0ns creatively but think how to pluck m0ney fr0m that DC tree.

Films are not made to satisfy fans curiosity or wants... Films are made to make money...It's always about the money.

MJBOLT:

i believe i already did

Didn't realize you now speak in parables... I asked for your own point of view... Unless you are telling me you have none, by which case, discuss closed!!!

hulk616:
success of what? Without that, black panther will still perform better than DCEU

Like the first five movies did?
Next Joke please!!!

Tenison96:
I honestly feel the only way you can accurately judge these movies is if they were released the same time which obviously it wasnt. I say this because before the marvel movies ( and thus birthing Universes) only batman and superman movies were prominent. Those start up movies laid the groundwork for any comic book movie thus far, apart from that there's 7-10 years between both start up movies, during which time comic book movies became much more popular in cinemas and there's also inflation.
The question I find interesting is, if the MCU or the start up movies were released today do you think they wouldn't out gross the start up DCEU movies?

They wouldn't.
The first five movies didn't even out gross SPIDERMAN 3!

MJBOLT:

in box office and ratings black panther slaps the winter soldier

You have not answered the question.

MJBOLT:

keep consoling yourself,we all know black panther alone is better than the DCEU

Black Panther is overrated and you know it, and that's aside riding on the success of Civil War plus 14 other movies.
Let me ask you, was Black Panther better than Captain America: Winter Soldier?

MJBOLT:

the debut of black panther $1.3 billion+

MoS $650m+

Justice League $650m+

Black Panther that took 15+ movies to set up?
We are talking about MCU and DCEU start up movies and you are talking about movies riding on the success of others after a long period of time.
Next joke please!!!

Minemrys:
The greatest joy u can offer a troll is giving it what it wants. Your time and attention. I wonder why u guys bother replying when they don't reply you on their page.

You are right bro.

hulk616:
wow , so you are telling me that marvels movies that are not quality movies, are the ones DC can't beat in box office or even make better ones after watching them for over 100 times

The debut movie of WonderWoman made what Thor and Captain America: First Avenger made at the Box Office combined.
Thor: =$449.3 million
CA: FA = $370.6 million
WonderWoman = $821.8 million

Incredible Hulk : $245.4 million
Iron Man : $585.2 million
Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice =$873.6 million

Are you not making a foöl of yourself bro?

Into the Spiderverse will struggle to recoup it's Production and Marketing costs...

Miggs:
@1st emboldened In the movie industry? NO
@2nd emboldened Thesame thing would have happened if DC had set up the groundbreaking,live-action, shared universe in its first five movies and Marvel had come into the game five to six years later after DC movies had first made their appearance.
Remember,it is not all about the money the movies make but their quality and Marvel always wins that round hands down.

The only two quality movies in the MCU by content are :
Captain America: Winter Soldier
Avengers: Infinity War

All the other ones are recycled same old stuff.

Miggs:
Your are too defensive.
I quoted you to state how Aquaman will not make as much money at the box office than Venom because it lacks the "Marvel stamp" not to argue about how the dark knight is greater than the MCU or whatever.
I am not on this thread to participate in a pissing contest with DC fans but to criticise and praise DC where necessary.I do thesame on the Marvel thread.
Now onto the meat of the matter;Why won't Aquaman make as much money as Venom at the box office?
Marvel is a juggernaut in the movie industry.All they have to do right now is place their logo in front of a movie title and the public(both local and international) laps it up without question(E.g. Venom).This is what DC lacks at the moment.Despite a very good second and third trailer and high praise from some movie critics,the general public is still questioning Aquaman being a good movie.
That is why I also believe SONY/MARVEL Into the Spiderverse will also be a bigger box office hit than Aquaman.
P.S. Give me a witty and whimsical Tim Burton Batman Returns 1992 than a grim and charmless Chris Nolan Dark Knight 2008 and I'll always choose the former

So what happened to Antman and the Wasp? The Incredible Hulk? Thor 1 and 2? Captain America: First Avenger? What of that useless Inhumans series?
Were they all hits?
Spiderman was already a hit before "Homecoming" happened. So what are you saying?
Suicide Squad was a hit money wise, so was WonderWoman and BVS... DC only has 5 films in the DCEU yet you guys are making it seem they have 20.
Do not let projections foól you, DC is just starting.

I made the reference to TDK to let you know that DC don't need a Universe to hit the Billion dollar mark... That any of the current Movies are yet to hit it is just a matter of time.

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Source | FC Barcelona

hulk616:
your eyes need fixing. Go and wash your eyes under third mainland bridge. So you are telling me the CGI in wonder woman, JL, BvS, SS, man of plastic, etc are good? Haaaaaaaaa there is God oooooo

E pain am.

Someone said Neymar won the Rollon Dfloor award...
I can't stop laughing!!!
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hulk616:
I meant no light, always fighting in the night like the bad guys usually sleep in the day. And also very bad CGI so they use darkness to cover it up but the sad thing is that the CGI is just too bad it can't be covered.

Or maybe it's your eyes and the poor quality movies you download/buy!

Marvel doesn't want to be left out of the Media buzz for female superheros especially after The success of WonderWoman...

hulk616:
why should I be sad when my movies are making billions not like DC that are always crying for extended version

Your movies? Another deluded psycho!

hulk616:
So they compress DC movies hahahahahah that's why they don't make sense. Anyway everybody knows that DC movies are always dark very dark

Yeah, cuz they don't make children's movies!

Shittaakeem:
Like I said pained nigga

Sadist...
Keep hating...Miserable fóol.

Shittaakeem:
Ditto
Like I said pained nigga

If you are a troll, then even other trolls will be ashamed of you.

hulk616:
abegi when the movie comes out now you will have to switch on the light in the cinema or increase the brightness of your laptop or phone to see the nonsense no so special effects

You mean after you download a compressed 200mb version in hdrip?
No wonder!

Shittaakeem:
Look at this one who is hating
Pained nigga

Are you okay at all?