marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever got off to an incredible start at the box office, having already earned over $330 million worldwide.
Disney reports that Black Panther: Wakanda Forever earned approximately $180 in its first weekend in North American theaters, smashing the previous record for a November opening, which was held in 2013 Hunger Games – Catching Fire with $158 million. Abroad, wakanda forever debuted around $150 million for a worldwide total of $330 million as of the end of Sunday.
Marvel now has the two biggest opening weekends of the year. Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madnessanother Marvel Studios feature, opened to $187.4 million in May, a figure yet to be surpassed by another film this year.
from Paramount Top: Gun Maverick remains for now the highest-grossing film of the year with a worldwide total of 1.487 billion, followed by Jurassic World Dominion with $1.001 billion and the strange doctor sequel with $955.7 million. Without serious competition until Avatar: The Way of the Water in December, wakanda forever should continue to dominate the box office in the weeks to come.
How much did the first cost Black Panther score on its opening weekend?
By comparison, Black Panther opened to $202 million when it hit theaters in February 2018. The film went on to gross over $1.34 billion worldwide, making it the fourteenth most profitable of all time at the time of this writing.
Two years after the release of Black Panther and the return of T’Challa in Avengers: Infinity War and its follow-up End of Game, Chadwick Boseman, the actor behind the fan-favorite character, has died aged 43, after a four-year battle with colon cancer. Marvel made the decision not to recast T’Challa for the sequel, with a new character taking on the mantle of Black Panther.
In Heroic Hollywood’s review of the film, Ryden Scarnato wrote, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever resumes after the events of Avengers: Endgame, with T’Challa’s death becoming permanent due to Boseman’s actual passing and the story that now follows the world of Wakanda dealing with that grief. Although the film is an ensemble, it ultimately rests on the shoulders of Letitia Wright’s Shuri and Angela Bassett’s Queen Ramonda.
“When it comes to performances, everyone here is at the top of their game, and you can’t help but think that’s because of the movie’s intertwining with real life. With Wright and Bassett serving of focal points, the two are the strongest of the bunch, with incredibly personal moments that are some of the most heartfelt we’ve ever seen in the MCU.Shuri’s larger role in the film, in particular, also works for those who might have reservations.
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