'Black Adam' tallies $67 million in domestic debut, first film opening since July to top $50 million

"Black Adam" stormed into theaters this weekend, snaring $67 cardinal domestically. It is the archetypal movie since Disney and Marvel Studio's "Thor: Love and Thunder" successful July to tally much than $50 cardinal during its debut.

The Warner Bros.' movie besides marks prima Dwayne Johnson's largest home opening arsenic a starring man.

Premium formats, including IMAX, Dolby Cinema and ample format cinema screens, accounted for astir 33% of the film's home summons sales, the workplace reported Sunday. These tickets are often much costly than those sold for accepted screenings and indicated that audiences are looking to ticker large movies connected the biggest surface possible.

This is simply a bully motion for the movie industry, which saw attendance shrink during the pandemic and is presently dealing with a important deficiency of caller movie releases. As of past Sunday, the 2022 container bureau had much than one-third less wide releases compared to 2019 levels. This has led to a much than 30% alteration successful container bureau grosses, according to information from Comscore.

"Black Adam" is 1 of lone four large releases coming to theaters earlier the extremity of the year. The others are each Disney films: "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" (Nov. 11), "Strange World" (Nov. 23) and "Avatar: The Way of Water" (Dec. 16).

The anticipation from movie theatre owners is that films similar "Black Adam" tin proceed to thrust postulation to theaters beyond its opening weekend.