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Dwayne Johnson is celebrating the success of Black Adam in theatres and on iTunes. As everyone knows, Henry Cavill made a cameo as Superman, something that Johnson “fought hard” for despite Warner Bros. not initially keen on bringing back the actor. In a video posted on Twitter, the DC star said he…

EXCLUSIVE: The Dwayne Johnson reteam with Jumanji franchise filmmaker Jake Kasdan, previously titled Red One at Prime Video, has started production, and Oscar winner J.K. Simmons and Emmy nominee Bonnie Hunt have boarded respectively as Santa and Mrs. Claus. The four-quadrant holiday family film…

Warner Bros/New Line/DC's Black Adam handily crossed $300M global this frame, landing so far at $182.3M from the international box office and $319.7M worldwide. The movie has seen some strong holds both domestically and overseas in its first weekends, down just 35% offshore this session, but will be…

UPDATE, writethru: Warner Bros/New Line DC's Black Adam in its second offshore frame saw a strong hold, down just 45%. It added $39M from 76 offshore markets to take the running international box office total to $139M for a global cume through Sunday of $250M. While superhero movies are typically…

SUNDAY AM Writethru: after Saturday update w/chart Halloween adjacent weekends have rarely been good ones at the box office, and even less so during the pandemic, when there aren’t a lot of solid movies in cinemas. Saturday night is largely party night, not movie night. All titles this weekend are…

MrBeast, Mark Rober, Dream, Charli D’Amelio and crossover stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Gordon Ramsay and Lili Reinhart are among the nominees revealed Thursday for the 2022 Streamy Awards, which honor the year’s best in online video. Winners will be announced December 4 in a ceremony at the…

Let’s celebrate the heydays of this autumn’s box office where we can, the season greatly hampered by a lack of tentpole product. But thanks to New Line’s Dwayne Johnson DC movie, Black Adam, that’s changing. In the wake of the pic posting the best opening of the actor’s solo star career at…

UPDATE, with actuals: Black Adam came in higher than Sunday's estimates with $75.9M from 76 international box office markets. That lifts the global opening to $142.9M. In like-for-like markets, the Dwayne Johnson-starrer's bow was 32% above Shazam! through Sunday. Looking at individual markets, the…

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is celebrating fans that have praised Black Adam and giving it a high audience score. The DC film scored a 90% on Rotten Tomatoes among moviegoers versus a 39% from movie critics. “This phenomenal 90% AUDIENCE SCORE for #BlackAdam is so gratifying for so many reasons,&#8221…

EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of Dwayne Johnson notching the highest opening of his solo star career with this weekend’s Black Adam at $67M, his holiday movie, currently titled Red One, is ramping up with additional castings: Deadline has learned that Nick Kroll, Kristofer Hivju, Wesley Kimmel and Mary Elizabeth…

UPDATE, Sunday AM: Dwayne Johnson’s long in the making dream DC project has paid off for the People’s Champion, as Black Adam has conquered a hot $67M U.S. opening, the best domestic box office start for him as a solo star, and a $140M global bow worldwide. That’s ahead of where we were seeing it…

After more than a decade's journey to the big screen, New Line and DC Films’ Black Adam opens today, and while he hasn’t been a part of it since the beginning, director Jaume Collet-Serra is happy to see this long journey come to its conclusion. Handpicked three years ago by the film's star and…