... it will gross a billion?
Aquaman opened in China last weekend and half the world this weekend. China's OW is over half the foreign gross - $179M.
Does it mean the critic's low score is accurate, because Chinese like crappy movies?
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=dcfilm0617.htm
Stay tuned, weekend box office estimate this Sunday morning.
from what I'm seeing ...
1 Billion is now on the table thanks to China....
Its still going to depend on AQuaman's domestic WOM though...
right now, everything is pointing to Aquaman NOT having even Average WOM domestically...all data points to it having Worse than Thor 2 WOM...
with the competition its entirely possible Aquaman could be another DCEU film that opens big and falls off a cliff...
right now you have Bumblebee,Into The Spider-verse,Mary Poppins all recieving good to great reviews and Will have excellent WOM for all of Christmas, Then Vice and Welcome To Marwen(which should both have Great reviews) are coming, then Holmes and Watson will will eat up some box office....
Aquaman could very well get eaten alive by competition with its Average to below Average WOM...
right now Aquaman has a shockingly low Average RT SCore of 6.2....and its Meta score 53 and falling...
theres no way around the fact that these are not good and clearly point to even The people that like the movie just think its average at best...
This could absolutely lead to a soft domestic total after a big opening....
Or maybe audiences will see Aquaman as more a of "Transformers" type experience where they simply have fun with the film despite its problems...Aquaman does look very fun and full of action...'
right now I'm thinking Aquaman is heading for a 220 to 250 Million domestic total due to Average WOM and great competition.....if that happens if may fall short of 1 Billion.
but the HUGE BUMP in China is massive and has put a 1 Billion dollar total on the table