Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Superhero & Comic Warner Bros. PG-13 2h 10m Released Mar 17, 2023 Discussed 2023–2024
Opening weekend
$30.1M
4,071 theaters
Per-theater average
$7,397
opening weekend
Domestic total
$57.7M
1.9× its opening
Worldwide total
$134.2M
43% domestic
Production budget
$125.0M
1.1× worldwide
RT critics
49%
RT audience
85%
+36 vs critics
Where it turns up
Friday, March 17, 2023 Third weekend of March 2023
On the chart Shazam! Fury of the Gods (opening): $30.1M
Expected 'For now it looks like low/mid 30's' Actual: $30.1M
In the note
Obviously, a lot of this insane spending on awards goes under ’talent relations’, but unless something changes soon, I’m not sure things can keep up at the level they’re at. Anyway, based on something I heard last weekend at an Oscar party, while being trapped in a corner by someone who just started playing Pickelball; here are some thoughts on the weekend box-office. Shazam! Fury of the Gods - Yes, as you may have heard already this isn’t what we’ve been seeing from the SuperHero genre lately, but there’s a pretty good reason for it doing what it’s doing (to me, anyway).
Friday, March 24, 2023 Fourth weekend of March 2023
On the chart Shazam 2 (wk 2): $9.3M, -69%
Expected 'It's down a lot today, so clearly there's something that didn't connect' Actual: -69%, among the worst superhero second weekends on record
In the note
Anyway, this looks sensational and it's looking like a weekend up the same 40% we've been seeing lately for sequels, which would mean a weekend in the mid 70's. Shazam! Fury of the Gods - It was interesting to see all the wild guesses about why this didn't work last week, but based on the data I see during my day job, this film had a funk from the first data I saw; and that was well over a year ago.
Friday, March 15, 2024 Third weekend of March 2024
In the note
Although the new entries this week aren’t going to make much of a splash, combined with the titles that have opened the last couple of weeks, we should be about even with last year’s (Shazam! Fury of the Gods) weekend box-office .