Black Adam Box Office Doubles The Suicide Squad (But It Needs More)

Black Adam has already grossed more than double The Suicide Squad at the domestic box office, but it still needs to earn back its huge budget.

Black Adam has now grossed more than double what 2021's The Suicide Squad earned at the domestic box office, though it still needs to push harder to earn back its budget. The film, which is the most recent dramatic passage in the DC Universe, came to theaters on October 21. It presented Dwayne Johnson as the nominal wannabe, a slave from Kahndaq who is given the powers of Shazam prior to being detained for a considerable 5,000 years. After he emerges in the modern day, the Justice Society arrives and attempts to neutralize the threat they think he poses to the world while he grapples with whether he desires to be a heroic figure for a nation he no longer recognizes.

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So far, Black Adam's box office has been performing extremely well, outperforming every other pandemic-era DCU offering and even holding its own against some pre-pandemic titles.. Not exclusively was its initial end of the week the first to top $50 million since Thor: Love and Thunder in July and the best opening for a Johnson-drove film ever, it was awesome for the establishment on the large since 2018's Aquaman. It also quickly became the first DCU film to cross the $100 million mark domestically since 2019's Shazam!.

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Per Variety, over its third weekend at the domestic box office, Black Adam has reached a cumulative total gross of $137.3 million. Already it has grossed more than double that of the previous DCU film The Suicide Squad, which made $55 million domestically over its entire run in 2021. However, considering the fact that Black Adam comes with a $200 million price tag before factoring in publicity, there is still quite a way to go before the film ends up in the black.

What Could Black Adam's Total Worldwide Box Office Gross Look Like?

It wasn’t so long ago that theaters were looking to Black Adam to be the big boom they needed to keep numbers up during the fall season, and that film certainly will end up being the highest-grossing film of autumn. Ultimately, theaters also paid some bills with Smile, The Woman King, and even Halloween Ends for about a weekend. Overall, though, this fall season is going to be down close to $100 million from 2021, which had help from Venom, James Bond, Shang-Chi, and Halloween Kills (for about a week.) Black Adam will lead the way for one more weekend, but it’s now Black Panther that they have their eye on.

It earned $18.5 million in its third frame, bringing its 17-day total to $137 million, good enough for ninth place all time among October releases. But that is still not further ahead than last year’s No Time To Die ($133.2 million) and still well behind Marvel’s Eternals ($150.7 million).

Its worldwide total stands at $319 million and it is going to need at least $500 million to break even. This is now the fourth film from Warner Bros. since 2020 to lead the box office for three straight weeks and not march onto $200 million.