‘Black Adam’ debuts with $67m

Warner Bros. ‘Black Adam’ opened with an estimated $67 million, according to studio estimates Sunday, handing Dwayne Johnson his biggest box-office weekend as a leading man and launching the D.C. Comics character he spent a decade to bring to the big screen.

‘Black Adam’ was a $200-million bid to upset the power balance in a DC Extended Universe dominated by the likes of Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman. The $67 million debut fell well shy of that stratosphere, even with the considerable draw of Johnson acting in his first superhero movie. Still, ‘Black Adam’ managed the highest opening weekend since ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ debuted with $143 million in July.

‘Black Adam,’ which stars Johnson as an ancient Egyptian summoned to the modern day, collected $73 million internationally for a $140 million global haul.