The year 2023 was known as “superhero fatigue.” If the problem is real or not, it seemed like the movies that used to seem as bulletproof as their main characters were having trouble at the box office. Some superhero movies did okay, but a lot of them did not do at all what people thought they would. Even though Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is one of them, the movie is still doing much better than some of its peers.
Aquaman 2 has made about $334 million around the world so far, which is a lot less than the $1 billion that the first Aquaman made, making it the highest-grossing DC movie to that point. As a whole, it’s still more than the $266 million that The Flash made, and it’s a lot more than the $132 million that Shazam: Fury of the Gods made. There is only a $8 million difference between The Flash and Aquaman 2 in the United States. This gap will almost certainly be closed in the next week.
Fans weren’t as excited for Lost Kingdom as they were for the first Aquaman or most other DC movies, but it’s not a total loss. It’s just the last movie in the current DC world. To be honest, this is pretty good news. After hearing about the James Gunn-led DCU reboot, this shows that a lot of fans didn’t give up on DC completely. It looked like that was going to happen.
This year, both Marvel and DC movies did badly, and Aquaman 2 looked like it was going to be a total bust from the start. Same thing happened with this movie: it didn’t get much press, like The Flash and Shazam 2, so the box office should have been about the same. The production price for Aquaman 2 was still about $200 million. When you add in the costs of marketing and distribution, the movie may have just broken even at the box office. Even though it’s not a huge hit, at this point it might be seen as a win just to break even.
This year, there won’t be any official DC movies set in the new timeline. The only movie set to come out in 2024 is “The Joker 2.” This movie, along with the Robert Pattinson-led Batman series, is telling its own story that is separate from the DCU story. The new project by James Gunn will begin in 2024 with the cartoon Creature Commandos show on Max.
Concerns have been raised by fans about the lack of DC movies coming out in the next year. However, Gunn himself sees this as a good thing and a welcome break from the old series. There may be “superhero fatigue” in the world, but 2024 looks like it will be the year that someone tries to fix it. Even the MCU is only putting out one big movie that year, and Deadpool 3 will be very different from other MCU movies.
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