Director Wen tweeted to thank Chinese fans of Aquaman for his impressive box office contribution

After being widely publicized by the media and domestic responsible parties, the movie Aquaman was released in domestic theaters last week, and the box office reputation continued to explode. The box office exceeded 200 million in 24 hours, 426 million in 48 hours, and a total of 650 million in the first three days of the first weekend, breaking the first weekend box office record for a single film in December in Chinese film history, and also breaking the first weekend box office record for DC superhero movies. The highest single-day box office exceeded 260 million, setting the highest single-day box office record for a single film in December in Chinese film history. Such inflated data and box office performance shocked friends around the world, and director James Wan also specially thanked Chinese fans on Twitter for their extraordinary contribution to the box office.

"Thank you to the Chinese fans for contributing to this extraordinary box office and word of mouth."

Aquaman has thus become the best-performing Warner Bros. film in China in its first week, surpassing Ready Player One by 66% and Justice League by 92%, and even surpassing Wonder Woman’s total box office in mainland China. What’s more worth mentioning is that the film directly topped the global weekend box office chart based on its box office performance in just one region of mainland China.

Fans on Twitter also praised Director Wen highly for this, with some even calling him the god who saved DC.

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