'Aquaman' Is About To Reach Another Outrageous Box Office Milestonehttps://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmende ... ber-heard/By this time tomorrow, Aquaman will be just over/under the $324.5 million domestic total of Deadpool 2.
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Anyway, back to Aquaman. The DC Films flick is opening in Japan on Friday. It's the last territory of note to play the James Wan-directed flick and, as per usual, Japan is going way later than the rest of the world. At a glance, barring a fluke in either direction, we can expect a Japanese gross of between $10m (Thor: Ragnarok, Ant-Man and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2) and $19m (Venom). Man of Steel earned $9m in Japan way back in 2013, while Wonder Woman earned $12.2m in 2017 and Justice League earned $9.4m. Black Panther grossed $14m in Japan last year and both Batman v Superman earned and Suicide Squad earned over/under $16m in 2016. Aside from Sony's live-action Spider-Man movies, the outliers among solo superhero films remain The Dark Knight Rises ($24m in 2012, sans 3-D) and Iron Man 3 ($25m in 2013, just under the $26m grosses of Age of Ultron and Civil War).
Yes, Spider-Man was and remains quite popular in Japan. Spider-Man earned $56 million back in 2002, while Spider-Man 2 earned $59.5m in 2004 and Spider-Man 3 earned $58m in 2007. The Amazing Spider-Man earned "just" $39m in 2012 while The Amazing Spider-Man 2 earned $30m in 2014. Spider-Man: Homecoming earned $25m, low for a Spidey flick but otherwise quite solid for a live-action superhero movie. Even Infinity War earned "just" $33.8m last summer in Japan. I suppose the Jason Momoa/Amber Heard flick could play like a Spider-Man movie, but for now, let's presume that $20m is the cap. The only thing "at stake" for Japan is whether Aquaman breaks out big enough to eventually pass the $1.155b gross of Captain America: Civil War (that's a longshot) and the $806m overseas gross of Iron Man 3 (that's more plausible) to become the biggest solo superhero movie ever in foreign box office.
We're still looking at an over/under $336 million domestic cume (past Suicide Squad, Batman v Superman and just over/under Spider-Man 3) and around $295m in China ($292m thus far). It'll pass the $1.108.6b global cume of Skyfall (in 2012 and sans 3-D) today or tomorrow to become the biggest non-Disney/non-Universal grosser in nearly eight years. After tomorrow, it'll sit, among non-Disney/Universal releases, behind only New Line's Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ($1.112 billion in 2003, which was the second-biggest grosser ever at the time), Paramount/Viacom's Transformers: Dark of the Moon ($1.124 billion in 2011), Warner Bros.' Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II ($1.341b in 2011), Fox/Paramount's Titanic and Fox's Avatar. It should pass Return of the King and Transformers 3 in due time. Every other bigger global grosser, sans inflation or exchange rates, has come from Walt Disney or Universal/Comcast over the last six years (starting with Iron Man 3 in April of 2013).
‘Aquaman’ Swimming to Home Video in Marchhttps://www.mediaplaynews.com/aquaman-s ... -in-march/ Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will release the DC Comics adaptation Aquaman through
digital retailers March 5, and on Blu-ray, DVD and 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray March 26.The sixth installment in the interconnected series of films based on DC Comics, Aquaman picks up with the title character’s adventures after his appearance in 2017’s Justice League. While Arthur Curry (Jason Momoa) is content on using his abilities to help people, he is summoned to Atlantis by Mera (Amber Heard), who urges him to assert his birthright as the true king of the undersea kingdom to prevent his half-brother Orm (Patrick Wilson) from waging a war against the surface world. To do this he must set off on a quest across the realms of the seven seas to recover the ancient artifact that will allow him to unite the oceans and fulfill his destiny as Aquaman.
The cast also includes Willem Dafoe, Dolph Lundgren, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Nicole Kidman, Temuera Morrison and Ludi Lin.
Directed by James Wan, the film has earned $325 million at the domestic box office, and $1.1 billion worldwide.
All versions of Aquaman will include a three-minute preview of Shazam, the upcoming live-action adaptation starring Zachary Levi as the DC superhero, due in theaters April 5.
The Blu-ray and DVD editions of Aquaman will also include
scene study breakdowns and several featurettes: “Going Deep Into the World of Aquaman,” “Becoming Aquaman,” “James Wan: World Builder,” “Aqua Tech,” “Atlantis Warfare,” “The Dark Depths of Black Manta,” “Heroines of Atlantis,” “Villainous Training,” “Kingdoms of the Seven Seas,” “Creating Undersea Creatures” and “A Match Made in Atlantis.”The 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray disc of Aquaman will feature Dolby Vision HDR and a Dolby Atmos soundtrack.
(100 minutes of special features)