The big box office duel between Marvel and DC is currently producing a pretty clear winner. Since hitting theaters less than two weeks ago, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is already the seventh highest grossing film of the year. On the other hand, Black Adam, who started earlier again, looks pretty weak. Dwayne Johnson doesn’t want to know anything about the defeat.
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Clip Attack on the Laboratory (German) HD
Dwayne Johnson dismisses comparisons between Black Panther 2 and Black Adam
According to Collider, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever already has it Grossed around $546 million worldwide. Black Adam, on the other hand, comes to a good 366 million dollars worldwide, which falls far short of the success of the latest Marvel blockbuster.
Dwayne Johnson, who takes every free opportunity to tout Black Adam as a shift in the DC Universe’s power structure, has now taken to Twitter quite offended responded to a comparison between Black Adam and Black Panther 2:
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? What a neutral post. I love to compete, but you guys are in business with us, there are no competition with the established global brand of Black Panther compared to Black Adam & JSA, which no one heard of a year ago. You don’t have to push us in, we are newborn babies and need to grow ?
The happy emojis can do that obviously bruised ego of Dwayne Johnson hard to conceal. Here someone was apparently hit hard in the duel for the more successful superhero blockbuster.
Black Adam: The DCEU’s lowest point so far
Rarely have our colleagues from the FILMSTARTS podcast on screen love been as unanimous as with Black Adam and seldom has harsh criticism been expressed so unanimously: The blockbuster with Dwayne Johnson is the low point in the history of the DC Extended Universe (DCEU).
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Who do you think is the winner in the duel between Black Adam and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever?