![]() ![]() Discovery chief David Zaslav installed Gunn and Safran. Safran is a producer on Shazam! The sequel is the first DC pic to hit theaters since Warner Bros. Shazam! 2 is also the first of four DC films due out this year that were made before James Gunn and Peter Safran took over as heads of DC Studios in November and began reshaping the upcoming slate. Shazam! 2 stars franchise newcomers Helen Mirren, Lucy Liu and Rachel Zegler, who take on the roles of goddesses Hespera, Calypso and Antaeus, respectively. When the Daughters of Atlas, a vengeful trio of ancient gods, arrive on Earth, the kids are thrust into a battle for their superpowers, their lives and the fate of their world. ![]() The sequel follows Billy Batson (Angel) and his fellow foster kids, who are still figuring out how to balance being teenagers with their superhero alter egos. The family-friendly movie topped out at $366 million at the worldwide box office, including $140.5 million domestically and $43.8 million in China (the sequel recently landed a China release date). It cost a reported $100 million to produce, far less than a usual Hollywood superhero tentpole. The first Shazam!, starring Zachary Levi and Asher Angel in the lead roles, debuted domestically to $53.5 million in April 2019. Shazam! Fury of the Gods opens in theaters March 17 and is the second studio superhero pic of 2023 after Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which debuted last weekend in theaters across the globe. Whether the movie is any good, I have little issue with this considering that Henson has already played an assassin in Proud Mary and a ballbusting sports agent in What Men Want over the last year-and-change, so it's not like this is the only starring role she has been offered.Box Office Blues: Global Revenue Forecast Shows 2024 Trailing 2023 in First Post-Pandemic Setback The North Carolina school integration drama, which is sure to be flooded with think pieces, is tracking for around $7 million on opening weekend. ![]() Henson) confronting and then befriending Exalted Cyclops of the Klu Klux Klan C.P. The outlet went on to predict the film would only make a total domestic gross between 101 million and 136. No, we shouldn't expect A Quiet Place numbers (that was a PG-13 story that didn't revolve around dead kids and dead animals), but this one is also presumably cheap enough that it won't need to break records (or necessarily compete with Jordan Peele's Us) to break even.Īpril 5 will also gift us with STX's The Best of Enemies, which is a true-life tale about Civil rights activist Ann Atwater (Taraji P. Box office tracking website Box Office Pro shared their long-range predictions for Shazam Fury of the Gods towards the end of February predicting the film would only have an opening weekend between 43 and 52 million domestically. That would be a solid start for the Kevin Kolsch/Dennis Widmyer-directed horror story, and again strong reviews out of SXSW could push that number upward. The film continues the story of teenage Billy Batson who, upon reciting the magic word SHAZAM is transformed into his adult Super. The second adaptation of Stephen King's popular novel (about a cemetery that brings things back to life) is currently tracking at an over/under $25 million launch. The other big release that day is Paramount/Viacom's Pet Sematary, which will close out this year's SXSW festival. The Tim Burton-directed fantasy is projected to open with around $50m-to-$60m (the review embargo will drop the Tuesday before opening), and that one could bite into Shazam's kid-friendly demos. Heck, you can make the case that Shazam's biggest competition is not the other comic book movies (along with the R-rated Hellboy opening the week after), but Walt Disney's PG-rated Dumbo opening on March 29. Yes, Aquaman, Spider-Man: into the Spider-Verse and Glass hit their tracking dead on, but Captain Marvel and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World showed that positive buzz can still push the debut numbers above the initial tracking guestimates. ![]()
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