Aquaman is on its way to making $300 million at the domestic box office and continues to break records for the DC Extended Universe.
The latest movie in the DC Extended Universe franchise has been out for over a month and fans are still rushing to theaters to see it. The movie has made about $2.5 million on Friday, and expected to take a total $10 million for the weekend in total. The movie continues to surpass it’s other comic book movie competition, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse and Bumblebee.
#Aquaman is on a collision course with the $300M mark today at the domestic #boxoffice. $2.5M FRI going to about $10M for the FRI-SUN wknd joining triple century club tonight.
— Gitesh Pandya (@GiteshPandya) January 19, 2019
There’s no doubt that DC has hit a home run with Aquaman. While it had a bumpy start to building its universe with negatively reviewed movies, the studio has shown improvement. It’s first big critical and commercial success, Wonder Woman, and now Aquaman, Warner Bros. and DC comics are showing that they are far from done and that we can only expect to see better films from the DC Extended Universe.
Directed by James Wan, Aquaman stars Jason Momoa as Arthur Curry, Amber Heard as Mera, Willem Dafoe as Vulko, Patrick Wilson as Orm / Ocean Master, Dolph Lundgren as Nereus, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Black Manta, Nicole Kidman as Atlanna, Ludi Lin as Captain Murk, and Temuera Morrison as Tom Curry.
From Warner Bros. Pictures and director, James Wan comes an action-packed adventure that spans the vast, visually breathtaking underwater world of the seven seas, “Aquaman,” starring Jason Momoa in the title role. The film reveals the origin story of half-human, half-Atlantean Arthur Curry and takes him on the journey of his lifetime—one that will not only force him to face who he really is, but to discover if he is worthy of who he was born to be… a king.
Aquaman is now playing. The DCEU will continue next with Shazam! which will be released in theaters on April 5, 2019, and will be followed by Birds of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) on February 7, 2020, and Wonder Woman 1984 on June 5, 2020. A standalone Joker film set outside of the DC Films universe starring Joaquin Phoenix as the Clown Prince of Crime is also set to hit theaters October 4, 2019.
Stay tuned to Heroic Hollywood for the latest news on the future of the current DC cinematic universe as we learn it.
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