Directed by Wen Ziren and starring Jason Momoa, Patrick Wilson, Amber Heard, Yahya Abdul-Maidine, Willem Dafoe, Nicole Kidman, Duff Runger, Randall Park, etc., "Aquaman 2: The Lost Kingdom" (Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom) did not do well at the North American box office!
Aquaman 2" only received $10.6 million at the North American box office on Christmas Day (3,706 theaters), and lost the championship after only three days of being the champion!The cumulative box office in the first weekend was $38.3 million, far less than expected!
In the boom of superhero films, North American audiences are the first to lose their enthusiasm!Among the superhero works released this year, only "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" and "Spider-Man: Across the Universe" performed better, and most of the others hit the street at the box office!In addition, due to the conflict between the actress Amber Heard and other creators, the North American promotion of "Aquaman 2" was very perfunctory from the beginning, and the premiere did not even roll out the red carpet, and the whole team seemed to have no intention of doing business from top to bottom.
Aquaman 2 was relatively less affected by the "recession" in Asia, not only setting Warner's best opening result in Singapore in 2023, but also Malaysia and Indonesia were also Warner's second-highest opening of the year. Although the Chinese mainland box office is far less than the first part, it is much better than other box offices. Up to now, the cumulative box office in the mainland has reached 26.7 billion yuan, temporarily ranking 10th in the box office list of imported films in 2023.
The main reason for the poor box office of Aquaman 2 is the bad word-of-mouth!The CinemaScore audience score is just a B, the Rotten Tomatoes freshness drops to 36%, and the Metacritic user average score is 42, the filmmaker scored 44, and IMDB scored 60, the Douban score dropped to 66。The film's reputation in major ratings is also at the end of the DCEU. The rating given by the mainland audience is still the highest!
Aquaman 2" had a global box office of 1$20.1 billion, with a cumulative box office of $1 as of Monday$33.2 billion. The performance is between "The Flash" and "Captain Marvel 2", and then with the advantage of the Christmas holiday, it should be able to surpass the global box office of these two films and try to hit the $300 million mark. It is worth mentioning that the first work of "Aquaman" is the all-time box office champion of DC, with more than $1.1 billion in box office revenue worldwide. The box office gap between the two works is huge!
Aquaman 2 costs 2 to make0.5 billion US dollars, Warner is going to lose blood again!