Warner Bros and DC Films' Black Adam grossed a whopping $26.8 million at the Box Office on opening day. This makes it the biggest solo opening day for Dwayne Johnson. Black Adam is also on course to become Johnson's biggest-ever opening weekend, which it did after enjoying a $140 million worldwide debut over the weekend.
Over the course of Johnson's career, only Fast Five, Fast & Furious 6, Fate of the Furious, and Furious 7 have made more than Black Adam's $26.8 million on an opening day with $34 million, $38 million, $46 million, and $67 million respectively. Bear in mind that while Johnson was a prominent character in each of these movies, he wasn't the central character. However, the film is ahead of Hobbs & Shaw, San Andreas, and Jumanji: The Next Level, among other movies he has featured in.
Black Adam opened with an estimated $7.6 million from its Thursday previews which took place across 3,500 locations in North America. The following day, it debuted at more than 4,000 locations across the United States and Canada. The film broke projections of $60 million for its opening weekend by a slight margin ($67 million). Black Adam is the first film since the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Thor: Love and Thunder to gross over $50 million at the domestic box office this year.
While the movie's projected gross over its opening weekend is comparatively low, given it is intended to shepherd in a new age for DC Comics-based films, it remains impressive when you consider that it introduces relatively obscure DC Comics characters.