Weekend Box Office: ‘Aquaman’ Eyes $68M; ‘Bumblebee,’ ‘Mary Poppins’ Battle for No. 2

Warner Bros.’ Aquaman easily came in No.

1 Friday with roughly $28 million from 4,125 theaters for a projected weekend debut of $67 million-plus, one of the best showings ever for the year-end holiday corridor outside of the Star Wars films.Overseas, the superhero pic has already amassed north of $300 million overseas, much of it from China.In North America, Christmas is unlike any other time of year at the box office.

The weekend before the holiday can be somewhat slow as consumers focus on holiday preparations (the big exception, of course, are the Star Wars movies, which did massive …

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