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Originally posted by Talon Fang
So sad that such a good movie is being ignored like this.

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Originally posted by Inhuman
and the like wasnt meant to be an insult, because some of those movies were "fun" as well.

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Originally posted by Senor Cage
Why you say that? It's having good legs, actually.

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Originally posted by celeyhyga17
It's been out for weeks. $120 domestic is horrible for a high profile movie.

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First off, Shazam! earned $17.34 million in its third weekend of domestic release, bringing its 17-day cume to $121.342 million. That's a stunning 29% drop, which is lower than the 29.5% third-weekend drop for Wonder Woman back in 2017. Yes, that's partially because of Good Friday and Easter Sunday, but that's still a hell of a hold for the DC Films flick. Heck, it's the seventh-smallest third-weekend-drop for any big comic book and/or superhero movie over the last 32 years.

For reference (and I'm being generous with the "superhero" designation), it's behind Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (+15% in 2018), The Matrix (-20% in 1999), Blade (whose third weekend was Labor Day in 1998), The Crow (whose third weekend was Memorial Day in 1994), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (-28% in 1991), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (-25% in 1990) and Robocop (-26% in 1987). That may not mean anything in the long run, but it took me too long to look that up (even Batman dipped 36% in weekend three and Wonder Woman dipped 29.5% in weekend three) for me not to share it.

Anyway, with $121 million in 17 days, the film is now positioned to soar past the $150 million mark in North America, which is a perfectly strong figure for a $90 million comic book flick. If Rampage was able to earn 30% of its domestic total ($30 million out of $101 million) after Avengers: Infinity War opened, then Shazam! should be able to survive the second "Avengers v. Thanos" smackdown. If anything, WB's own Detective Pikachu is probably a bigger threat to Shazam! than Avengers: Endgame. While a $400 million-plus finish will be a close call (mostly thanks to relative disinterest in China), it still crossed $300 million worldwide this weekend for a $322 million cume.

Barring flukes in either direction, it should end up with around $395 million global, about on par with (the far more expensive) Alita: Battle Angel ($405 million), Mad Max: Fury Road ($370 million), Edge of Tomorrow ($371 million). Is that a super-huge number? No, but it's about on par with Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ($375 million on a $90 million budget) and The Nun ($366 million global on a $22 million budget). There's a reason WB and New Line didn't spend Aquaman money on a Shazam movie. When you spend less money, you can celebrate a smaller overall global gross. Maybe the sequel will breakout due to the quality/goodwill from this one. But as long as the budget is kept in check, it doesn't have to.

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Originally posted by Darth Thor
It will have A profit. But nothing to justify a larger scale sequel. They may have to bring in The Rock earlier than planned.

Really hope this continues to have the legs to carry it to $400mill WW.