Posted on 02/18/2018 11:23:05 AM PST by SMGFan
Dominating the weekend and delivering one of the largest opening weekends of all-time, Disney and Marvel's Black Panther topped the President's Day weekend box office, outperforming its nearest competitor by nearly $175 million based on estimates. As a result, fellow new wide releases were left in the dust with both Lionsgate's Early Man and PureFlix's Samson struggling in the low single digits. The weekend did, however, have other notable performances such as Sony's Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, which became the studio's second highest grossing domestic release of all-time, and Fox's The Greatest Showman, which has now topped $150 million at the domestic box office.
Atop the weekend box office with an estimated $192 million for the three-day weekend, Black Panther delivered the fifth largest three-day domestic opening in history and is currently expected to finish around $218 million for the four-day holiday weekend. The performance is also the largest February opening of all-time, the largest President's Day weekend opening of all-time and gives Disney eight of the top ten domestic openings of all-time. Within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Black Panther is the eighteenth release in the franchise and the ninth to open with over $100 million. It's also the second largest opening in the MCU, behind only The Avengers ($207.4m) and topping the $191 million debut for Avengers: Age of Ultron.
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5th best? Must be RACISM!!!
Didn’t know that there was a specific racial appeal to Start Wars.
I might have some interest in a black superhero movie if race wasn’t the centerpiece of the superhero’s persona. Also, it isn’t helping that the term Black Panther was most closely associated with black separatist/supremacist groups before this movie came along. This would be like making a movie with a bunch of white superheroes called The Klan. Pass.
I think there’s a bit of an over-reaction and people want to make more of it than what it really is. Sometimes a movie is just a movie.
>Star Wars (obviously)
So, will this initiate a wave of black shooters and mass shootings.. to ruin that narrative for libs? Not that one would want such to happen, but these moviegoers are highly impressionable, cause..... “blm” and all. Soros at work in the jungle.
Well, yeah, that and climate change.
Hope some Freeper sees this and reports on
I had not heard a thing about this until two weeks ago
Sometimes it is, but is that really the case here? It doesn’t seem like it. It’s marketed as a black superhero movie not a movie of a superhero who’s black. There was 1 guy who gave it a negative review on rotten tomatoes, and he was roundly excoriated for it. Gone With The Wind has more negative reviews.
I’m sure a lot of white millennials are just thrilled to death, rejoicing that “there’s finally a black superhero!” I wonder how many of them realize that Black Panther has been around for more than 50 years, making his debut in the July 1966 issue of Fantastic Four.
lots of commie media hype and idiot peeps fallin’ for it.
I finally watched that for the first time about eleven years ago. Haven't seen it since.
Almost the whole time I was waiting for somebody, ANYBODY, to give that whiny Scarlett a good slap.
Sounds like a good job of marketing to me, it's called "Capitalism".
Worse than “The Phantom Menace”?
Too true— equally sophomoric substitute fantasy world.
Maybe it’s just age- and having put distance between one’s self and the “edge” of danger street conflicts in daily life- but there are very REAL “empires” are at work against us... right now, and since post WWII. Can’t count on these peeps to know anything about them by READING! Like Robert Conquest’s work on soviets/bolshies and their descendants, for example.
anti-fa is anything but not fascist and not communist— they are such a thing as leftists/fascists. Recalling that occupy outfit was/is largely financed by wall street lefties at golden sacks and soros money manipulators. BLM— some support traced to the ultra leftist St. Joseph’s Society, as well as major from Soros.
Hollywood again “sticking it” to the American people and aiding and abetting leftist agenda, and keeping up the conflict.
BTW, how can you compare movies across time? Money is a poor measure to compare GWTW to Star Wars IV, for example. Why don’t we use the number of tickets sold?
AND they are doing voter registrations now at the movie theaters. SO, I think, when the new CHRIST movie comes out we should do the same.
Ten years ago, I would have agreed with you; but, movies have gotten so strange and unwatchable that I find the MCU to be, at least, entertaining.
Avengers Civil War, actually had an interesting premise, which I think would be welcomed at FR. That being the question of who should hold power. Iron Man went with a "governmental agency"; but, Captain America went with the Avengers keeping power in their own hands. At the end, Cap was right, and Tony Stark was amazingly wrong. It was a Conservative/Libertarian message, set in a comic book world. I just don't see these interesting types of subjects approached in entertainment media anymore. You are only allowed one POV, and that is the leftist one.
Anyway, I am a 63 yo woman, and I have to admit that I watch these comic book super-hero movies. I think it may have a lot more to do with the dearth of any other entertaining movies, than with the super-hero part of it. I find the language and violence and over the top sex scenes to be a bit too much anymore. Perhaps I'm just getting old.
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