There was a lot of pressure on the Black Adam movie with its release for many reasons. First, don’t forget that DC Comics was supposed to have four film releases this year. Three live-action movies in the DCEU and one animated feature. However, delays changed everything, so we’d get two live-action films and the animated feature. But then, that changed too! At the end of all the shifts, the live-action and animated features starring The Rock remained. The animated movie did decently, and then the live-action product got blasted by critics, leaving many to wonder how it would do at the box office.

The answer is “pretty darn good.” While it doesn’t compare to recent Marvel Studios films, that’s not a fair metric to go for here. We must compare it to other DCEU films and films starring The Rock. To that end, Black Adam came out strong with a $67 million opening domestically. As you can see in the tweet below, that makes it the biggest opening weekend for The Rock when he’s the lead. That means you can’t include the Fast & Furious films he co-starred in: