It’s also doing pretty well in foreign territories, having made $17.3 million outside of North America so far.
Obviously it came nowhere close to Andres Muschietti’s IT, which pulled in a shocking $123.4 million during its first three days back in September 2017, but it made enough to take the second place spot away from Mikael Hafstrom’s 1408, which made $20.6 million back in 2007.
Perhaps part of the reason why Shazam! didn’t open bigger is because it had some real competition at the box office, as Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer’s Pet Sematary also put up some legitimate numbers this past weekend.
Critics (61% on Rotten Tomatoes) and audiences (“C+” on CinemaScore) didn’t respond to it quite as well as the big new superhero release, but the $25 million it brought it is nothing to shake a stick at.