Dwayne Johnson has prepared decades to bring Black Adam to the big screen. And he got a big box office opening.
The DC superhero movie was released at number 1 at the national and global box office. According to Comscore, last weekend the film earned a whopping $67 million across North America and $140 million worldwide.
It’s also Johnson’s biggest box office weekend of his entire career as a leading actor. But it also received poor critical reviews.
Viewers enjoyed the actor’s transition into an antihero.
Apart from Johnson, Black Adam stars Aldis Hodge, Pierce Brosnan, Noah Centineo and Quintessa Swindell.
The film follows the journey of Johnson’s character as he gains superpowers after the death of his son. However, he wakes up thousands of centuries later in the modern world after his captivity.
“It’s always cliché to say that someone was born to play a role. But in this case, it’s true,” said filmmaker Jaume Collet-Serra about Johnson in an interview with EW.
“The movie happened because of him. He’s the energy and the push that got this movie made. Even if it took him a long time to fulfill this dream of his, I think that it’s been worth the wait.”
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On the Big Screen
Another interesting film is the return of the queen of romantic comedies Julia Robert to the romantic comedy screen. She teamed up with Ocean’s Eleven co-actor George Clooney for Ticket to Paradise.
The film debuted in the top 2 spots at the domestic and worldwide box office. Plus, it earned $16.3 million throughout North America and a sum of $96.6 million on the global screen.
Ticket to Paradise follows estranged ex-spouses who work together to get their daughter to call off her marriage to a seaweed farmer.
Meanwhile, Smile sits tight in third place at the domestic box office, gaining an extra $8.3 million. The previous week’s No. 1 Halloween Kills is next at No. 4. It earned an extra $8 million, bringing its total to $54.1 million.
Furthermore, the musical Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile rounded out the top five with an additional $4.2 million, bringing the total to $28.7 million.
Box Office Johnson
In recent times, Johnson has also been a box office success for the public too. Many have urged him to run for the presidency.
However, he politely declined as he wanted to focus on his daughters “during these critical years in their life.
“I will say this ‘cause it requires the B side to this. I love our country and everyone in it. And I also love being a daddy. And that’s the most important thing to me, is being a daddy, number one. Especially during this time, this critical time in my daughters’ lives.”
He added: “I know what it was like to be on the road and be so busy that I was absent for a lot of years when my first daughter’s growing up in this critical age at this critical time in her life. And that’s what the presidency will do.
He noted that he is a “patriot to my core,” but his number one priority is “my daughters.”
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