‘Black Adam’ Adds 18.5 Million on Pre-‘Black Panther’ Box Office Weekend

Warner Bros./DC’s “Black Adam” is holding on to the No.

1 spot at the box office for one more weekend before the release of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” on Friday, adding 18.5 million for a domestic total of 137 million after three weekends.With hopes of a Chinese release diminishing, “Black Adam” continues to follow the box office path of last year’s Marvel film “Eternals,” as they have virtually identical domestic cumes to this point.

If that continues even as “Wakanda Forever” siphons off a huge portion of the film’s audience, “Black Adam” is headed for a final total of around 164 million domestic and 400 million worldwide.While “Eternals” was disappointing for the MCU, the franchise’s established popularity likely means that the future of the Eternals in later films isn’t in question.

But for DC, which is counting on new CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran to chart out a new vision,

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