I know this isn’t a 1:1 comparison with varying factors but Aquaman 2 should be doing about $120M+ Dom even with its worse reception. I’m guessing a similar trajectory to Bumblebee would have it somewhere around $85M by New Year’s Day.
Bumblebee of course ended with like a 6x multi, I doubt Aquaman 2 would get that high, but it is likely doing more than 4x.
There weren’t COVID delays with production just release delays, and cameos don’t exactly inflate budgets. Reshoots were just a couple days when added together according to Wan so it probably wasn’t that costly.
Manta found the Black Trident and was breaking into Atlantis to steal some green chemical, can’t remember the name of it lol. But yea they did a heist on Atlantis and that’s what caused the battle when Topo sounded the alarms.
You always sound like you want to be optimistic but doubt yourself… don’t.
And I’m gonna say higher. $35M OW (3 day) + 5x multiplier. Now that’s optimistic. Overseas number? Idk but this thing is crossing $400M WW. Call me crazy.
If you blinked when she appeared in the trailer then you would miss her lol. Even her supporters thought she wasn’t going to be in the movie. Hence I said she was absent from 99% of the marketing, she’s only in that fraction of a second shot.
We’ll see if Friday’s audience skews the score more positive a bit but I was not accrediting Heard haters for the Cinemascore but more the RT score. But there’s many flaws with my theory,
Update, I think it maybe the Amber haters impacting the score. Saw some complaining on Twitter that she’s still in the movie… idk though just a theory.
The movie is decent lol entertaining enough for me and the few peers so far who I know have seen it, critical reception is another story though but I don’t think any critic walked out a screening.