'Aquaman' Expected to Win at Box Office This Weekend Ahead of 'Mary Poppins Returns' | THR News - video Dailymotion

The superhero tentpole opens opposite 'Mary Poppins Returns' and 'Bumblebee.'

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00:00Don't miss Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest.

00:03Warner Brothers Aquaman is off to the races after pulling in $9 million in Thursday evening

00:07previews. The superhero flip begins its North American run after already amassing more

00:11than $300 million overseas, with China to thank for much of that haul.

00:15The stateside Thursday evening opening is in line with comic book titles including

00:22Marvel's Doctor Strange with $9.4 million, Sony and Marvel's Venom with $10 million,

00:27and DC's Wonder Woman with $11 million. Aquaman, which stars Jason Momoa and Amber Heard,

00:33is expected to win the weekend ahead of Disney's Mary Poppins Returns, which was directed by

00:37Rob Marshall and stars Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda. The sequel to the adored 1964

00:43family classic earned $4 million on Thursday for a two-day total of $8.8 million.

00:47You seem hardly to have aged at all.

00:50Really? One never discusses a woman's age, Michael. Would have hoped I taught you better.

00:54Meanwhile, Paramount's Bumblebee, a Transformers spinoff, earned $2.1 million in previews

01:01and boasts the best Rotten Tomatoes score of any film opening nationwide this weekend, with 94%.

01:06Oh, I'm good. Now I'm good, thanks.

01:10Also debut in her STX Films' Second Act, a workplace comedy starring Jennifer Lopez,

01:15and Universal's Welcome to Marwen starring Steve Carell. Neither has been positively reviewed by critics.

01:20Second Act grossed $515,000 in Thursday previews, while Marwen earned just $190,000.

01:26To read more on this story, head to THR.com. For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.