‘Aquaman’ Splashes Down with $67.4 Million Debut; ‘Poppins’ and ‘Bumblebee’ Play Runner-Up

The long Christmas weekend is underway with Aquaman, Warner Bros.’s latest entry into their DC Extended Universe, topping the charts, on its way to a $100+ million five-day opening.

Meanwhile, Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns and Paramount’s Bumblebee finished in runner-up positions over a weekend that played relatively similarly to the same weekend last year, though given the holiday timing its hard to make an apples-to-apples comparison.

Performing almost exactly as expected, WB’s release of Aquaman easily took the #1 spot at the weekend box office with an estimated $67.4 million over the course of the three-day weekend and a cume that now stands at $72.1 million once you include the $4.7 million in grosses from pre-weekend Amazon Prime showings.

The film is now expected to deliver around $105 million over the course of its first five days, which ends on Christmas Day, routinely the busiest day at the box office all year.

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