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Dwayne Johnson has enjoyed a terrific wrestling career under his stage name, The Rock. Hoping to enjoy similar to more prominence, he ventured into the acting career. Given the brand he was at the time, he starred in several films before eventually settling on some specific genres.
Dwayne Johnson
He has already been featured in several big projects from the Fast and Furious franchise to the Jumanji series, which has given massive box-office hits. However, now many believe that his charm is fading after he gave disastrous results in Black Adam and Jungle Cruise. The Disney movie was supposed to begin a new live-action franchise after the mega success of Pirates of the Caribbean, but the results were drastically different.
Dwayne Johnson’s Jungle Cruise Was an Epic Box-Office Failure
Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson in Jungle Cruise
Dwayne Johnson debuted in Hollywood with a box-office successful film, The Mummy Returns. It eventually led him to star in several projects that were majorly performing well in its theatrical screening. From the past record, it can be seen that his films have had a tremendous box-office career but the charts are now falling.
Back in 2021, he starred alongside Emily Blunt in the hope of gaining more prominence with Disney’s Jungle Cruise. This post-pandemic movie left him shattered as it faced the drastic fate of a $151M loss at the box office.
It was reported that the film would have to gross around $500 million worldwide to break even which included production and promotional cost of $362 million.
Dwayne Johnson in Disney’s Jungle Cruise (2021).
However, this disappointing performance would have been different had the film been released before the pandemic. The House of Mouse also had a huge contribution to its failure as its strategy to release films on its streaming platform was what led to a massive drop in viewers as they would prefer to wait a few extra weeks to watch that project.
Despite a failure, the studio has already started developing its sequel with no official date has been unveiled regarding its release. Given that the Jumanji actor was unable to establish his prominence in the film, his box-office records’ took another critical hit when DC’s Black Adam turned out to be an epic failure.
Dwayne Johnson’s Successful Career Got Another Failure – Black Adam
Dwayne Johnson as Black Adam
With a 38% Rotten Tomatoes score, DC’sBlack Adamwent on to become one of the biggest critical and commercial failures. It was set to launch Johnson’s career in DCU which turned out to be a major disaster after it was unable to impress critics and fans.
Several factors contribute to its failure whether it be scripting or the actor’s portrayal in the film.
Another important factor was the pandemic itself as movies at that time were barely able to persuade fans to watch the projects on streaming platforms leading to further failure. It was able to make $393 million worldwide with its sequel already been discarded.
Jungle Cruiseis available on Disney+ meanwhileBlack Adamis streaming on HBO Max.
Source: Collider
