Can you smell what Black Adam is cooking in its second week at the top of the U.S. box office?

Dwayne Johnsons's superhero movie crosses $100 million in its second week

By Sam Barsanti | October 30, 2022 | 8:44pm

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Can you smell what Black Adam is cooking in its second week at the top of the U.S. box office?

Black Adam Photo: Warner Bros

The past week has been for Warner Bros. Discovery’s DC Comics adaptation division, which has been rechristened DC Studios and will now be co-run by producer Peter Safran and filmmaker James Gunn. With one announcement, they rejuvenated the struggling label and, for the first time in a long time (maybe ever), people are excited to see what WBD can do with DC superhero movies. And obviously that must’ve translated into another box office win for Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam, right?!

Eh, not really. The super-antihero movie still stands at the top of the U.S. box office in its second week, but it fell more than 50 percent from its debut down to $27 million. That was enough for it to easily cross the $100 million mark (it’s at $111 million) and double what the second-place movie made, but we’re nowhere near, say, Top Gun: Maverick numbers. Speaking of the second-place movie, it was (once again) Ticket To Paradise, which added $10 million to its total (which is now $33 million after two weeks).