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BLACK ADAM starring Dwayne Johnson (TBD)
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Now confirmed by Deadline.

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Dwayne Johnson has confirmed his long-awaited turn as DC’s Black Adam will start filming in 2020.

 

Black Adam is Shazam’s arch-nemesis and a complex antihero with a rich history of his own. Johnson was to play the character in the first movie before the parties decided he warranted his own pic, and he came aboard in January 2017.

 

The project has since been in and out of development, with Johnson even offered the role of Shazam! before deciding to stick with Teth-Adam.

 

Shazam! was a hit when it bowed in April, grossing $362.7 million worldwide, with a sequel already in the works.

 

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History shows that both big Avatar 2 and Black Adam can thrive over the same Christmas season. And if DC Films' Dwayne Johnson flick dings James Cameron's mega-budget Disney/Fox sequel enough to draw blood, well...

 

In news I missed because I was writing my Frozen 2 review, Dwayne Johnson has announced that Black Adam is both absolutely happening (after years of teases and false starts) and that it will open on December 22, 2021. Yes, that’s five days after Fox and Disney finally unleash James Cameron’s Avatar 2.

 

Warner Bros. and DC Films had grand luck with Aquaman last Christmas, earning $335 million domestic from a $72 million opening weekend and $1.048 billion worldwide in the process. The Aquaman sequel is dated for December 16, 2022, the same day where Disney still (as of this moment) has a Star Wars movie slotted, but that could change with the Game of Thrones dudes no longer developing their aborted trilogy.

 

Point being, if Avatar 2 is going to be the, uh, Avatar of the 2021 Christmas season, then Black Adam is pitching itself as Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes also opened right after Avatar ten years ago. While Avatar dominated the holiday season on its way to a record-smushing $760 million domestic/$2.789 billion global total, WB’s $90 million-budgeted Guy Ritchie-directed action drama earned $62 million over Christmas weekend on the way to a $209 million domestic/$524 million global cume.

 

Tomorrow Never Dies opened concurrently in December of 1997, and both films earned $25-$30 million opening weekends. Titanic did the Titanic thing and sailed to $600 million domestic and $1.8 billion worldwide, while the second Pierce Brosnan 007 flick legged it to $125 million domestic (above the $106 million cume of GoldenEye with a 5x multiplier, easily a record in the post-Dalton era) and $333 million worldwide (just under the $350 million cume of GoldenEye). Mamma Mia! earned $144 million domestic and $609 million worldwide opening concurrently with The Dark Knight in July of 2008.

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