MBJ is a very popular person who consent actually make many movies so the ones he is get his fans out. Plus the first 2 Creeds were both quite well received.

All the black womens I know think MBJ is the sexiest man alive

Feeling about 6.5m previews including early shows on Monday/Wednesday. But presales for the weekend are way stronger. I am confident its hitting 50m+ this weekend. Expecting very good saturday increase and soft sunday drop helped by strong reviews/reactions.

Don’t think it’s getting to 200m, but it looks like it could get to 175m

Is Creed the highest opening weekend for a directorial debut of all time?

Jordan will not only be able to direct whatever he wants, his upcoming roles he's attached to follow the Creed formula and it could lead to big results. Feels like he's about to have a run of new movies from pre-built franchises that are getting reboots.

Rainbow 6 - Already starred in Tom Clancy Without Remorse for Amazon so feels like this one is now bound to be big.

Thomas Crown Affair - Reboot of the Brosnan movie. In line with his Tom Clancy role looks like he'll do well here.

I Am Legend 2 - He can carry the franchise forward post Smith like he did post Stallone. They can probably even save money without Smith here and Jordan can probably carry it now alone.

Methuselah - Attached to star with Jon Watts who directed the new Spider-man movies in a biblical drama.

I never thought MBJ was an amazing actor but you haven't really needed to be for A listers in the past (he's probably more of an A- right now but this could be launching pad to the final stage), and if anything being boxed out of awards movies due to lack of versatility can make you seem more mainstream/populist.

Yeah, he's not A-list at all. He couldn't do shit for Journal for Jordan's box office. Just Mercy didn't do too badly, but at just $36 million would we be saying that's an A-lister gross if it starred Brad Pitt instead? No, we wouldn't. Jordan isn't A-list yet. The Creed and Rocky brands are the stars here. Let's not read too much into this. I also believe Majors is a big reason this one is doing well. It presents a simple Rocky IV formula where you have our protagonist versus a seemingly indestructible, sculpted Herculean opponent. That's catnip for popcorn audiences that seek uncomplicated escapism.