Millionare Actor Dwayne Johnson Comes Forward to Defend His Not So Flop Movie Black Adam by Sharing the Profit Details

Black Adam was the dream movie project of Dwayne Johnson for nearly a decade. When DCEU released the first trailer, the WWE star-turned-actor was promoting the film every day. The movie hit the theaters on 21st October 2022 and had a good opening. 

However, the critical review wasn’t great, but the fans loved Black Adam. Shockingly, the box office run wasn’t the same as DC and The Rock expected it would be.

Is Black Adam is a box office flop?

Recently, Variety shared a report in which they stated Black Adam was a box office flop after it fails to earn more than what it spent. It was a major project by DCEU and Dwayne Johnson that, “didn’t come cheap, costing $195 million to produce.”

Additionally, the film had a marketing budget of $100 million. However, because of the COVID-related box office limitations, the studio pushed back the global marketing budget to $80 million.

Therefore, according to the report, Black Adam had to earn $600 million to earn a massive profit from the film.

Unfortunately, the movie hasn’t been able to cross the $400 million benchmark. As of this writing, the comic book character’s film stands at $387 million after its unexpected opening in the Japanese market.

The Rock’s portrayal as the Teth Adam star was seen as a change in the “hierarchy of power”. However, it doesn’t seem the case now as $400 million looks tough after a few experts called it could achieve $450 million.

Black Adam had a stellar opening of $67 million in the opening week. Johnson’s DCEU debut film outranked Shazam, which had an opening of $53.5 million.

Sadly, it came close to leaving Aquaman behind, as Jason Momoa’s film opened at $67.8 million in its first week.

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Dwayne Johnson defends Black Adam sharing its profits on social media

Amidst the talks of Black Adam being a box office flop DCEU movie The Rock shared its profits on his social media. Surprisingly, she also compared Black Adam’s total earnings to MCU’s  Captain America: The First Avenger.

The Great One wrote, “Waited to confirm with financiers before I shared this excellent #BlackAdam news – our film will PROFIT between $52M-$72M. Fact.”

Johnson added, “At almost $400M worldwide we are building our new franchise step by step (first Captain America did $370M) for the DC future.”

The fans didn’t like this move of DJ comparing Black Adam with the first Captain America film. Nevertheless, the Jumanji star has called it a start for something big and has assured fans are yet to see much more exciting movies and new characters.

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