UPDATED 12:09PM: with more preview figures: One Saturday 7PM show at roughly 1,225 theaters last night of Warner Bros./DC’s Aquaman made a huge $2.9M in paid sneaks, a figure that beats the $1.86M earned by Amazon Prime’s previous collaboration with Sony a year ago on Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. If we were to rank Aquaman on this weekend’s B.O. chart it would file in 10th place ahead of Universal’s Green Book ($2.78M at 1,215 theaters), Fox Searchlight’s The Favourite ($2.5M weekend at 439 theaters) and Fox/New Regency’s Widows ($1.2M at 1,228).

Already, Aquaman has caught plenty of fish abroad with an overseas box office of $261M before officially opening stateside.

UPDATE Friday AM after previous Thursday night exclusive: With exits demos Aquaman, as we saw it, is coming in with $9M, and when counting all of its Amazon and Wednesday paid sneaks of $4.7M, that’s $13.7M for the DC oceanic superhero to date stateside. $1.7M of Aquaman‘s Thursday night or 19% of its night came from Imax hubs.

The DC hero’s Thursday is in line with the $9.4M made by Doctor Strange and the $10M earned by Sony’s Venom. Both pics’ Thursdays accounted for roughly 30% of their Friday, which coincidentally were both $32.5M. Doctor Strange wound up with a 3-day of $85M, while Venom saw $80.2M, so that gives you an idea of Aquaman‘s scales over 3-days.

Exits were huge per PostTrak with Aquaman earning 5 stars from kids and parents, who made up 15% of the audience last night, and 4 stars from overall audiences who repped 85%. Biggest draws were in order: M25+ (35%), M25- (27%), F25+ (21%), F25- (17%). Diversity demos were 40% Caucasian, 23% Hispanic, 19% African American and 12% Asian. Females over 25 loved Aquaman the most at 85% positive (Hmmm, maybe for Jason Momoa?). Definite recommend here is a solid 69%. Again PostTrak polls throughout the weekend, so these demos will adjust.

Paramount is reporting $2.15M for Bumblebee‘s last and with its $700K Dec. 8 sneaks that’s $2.85M to date. Bumblebee and Aquaman had previews starting at 5PM. Saturday matinees are key as the studio sees this as a family pic. Who would have thought that a Transformers movie would have the best reviews of the weekend? But that’s what Bumblebee can boast at 94% Certified Fresh. The pic will be playing in 2D and 3D this weekend at 3,550 theaters.

PostTrak saw a bigger share of families turning out for Bumblebee than Aquaman at 36%, with general audiences repping 63%. Four and half stars and 86% and an overall 68% definite recommend indicate that Bumblebee will have plenty of gas into January.

Meanwhile, Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns amid the competition of a big fish in the marketplace last night and Paramount’s Bumblebee remain quite very solid with $4M, -17% from Wednesday for a two-day take of $8.8M. She led all films in regular release last night. Rotten Tomatoes has stamped Poppins with a 77% Certified Fresh Rotten Tomatoes score.

STX’s Second Act earned $515K at 2,607 locations. Earlier week projections saw the Jennifer Lopez romantic comedy with $10M+ over 5 days, STX is seeing $8M. They’re looking to recoup the $15.7M net production cost and P&A in the long run. Pic, directed by Peter Segal, plays in 2,607 theaters today. Previews last night started at 7PM.

Universal/DreamWorks also had Robert Zemeckis’ drama Welcome to Marwen in previews last night, and expected they weren’t very good with $190K at 1,600 theaters.

3rd UPDATE, Midday: Industry box office sources are being conservative in regards to projections since it’s still the pre-holiday period. So while Aquaman‘s $9M Thursday would typically indicate a $80M+ opening (and that could still happen), right now estimates are in the $70M-$75M range over FSS with a first day of $30M including previews of $13.7M. A solid start for what is expected to be a great stretch. Remember, this $200M DC production has already bagged $332.1M offshore. By Christmas Day we could be looking at half billion worldwide for the James Wan-directed feature. Stateside, Aquaman will go down as his second-biggest opener in U.S. Canada over FSS after Furious 7‘s $147.1M start.

Despite what we’re projecting here, there is a school of thought that No. 2 could be a three-way race between Poppins, Bumblebee and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse with $20M. Right now, sources are seeing Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns with a $6.2M first Friday and a projected 3-day of $20M-$23M; by Sunday it’s five-day could be as high as $32M. It’s a musical, it’s going to leg out, and by Sunday could be running as much as 138% ahead of the $13.4M Wednesday through Sunday launch of The Greatest Showman a year ago.

Paramount’s Bumblebee is seeing $7M today, including $2.85M previews, with a 3-day between $18M-$22M. It’s also in for the long haul. A year ago, Fandango reported that millennials can see as many as four films over the Christmas-New Year’s Day corridor.

In fourth is Sony’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse with a second Friday of $5M, -61% because of last Friday’s previews, and a second weekend between $17M-$19M, -49% for a 10-day take of $67.1M on the high-end.