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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Well I reckon I will miss it like all the other superhero movies before it until I have to watch it in a re-education camp. Identify politics isn’t bad enough? Now it has to be identity sports, olympics, movies, ad nauseum....
>>Worse than “The Phantom Menace”?<<
No such movie that meets that criterion exists.
I don’t think the consumers of that genre have caught on to that redistribution of wealth anymore than the NFL and NBA fans have.
Good to know. Letting their demographic know just how much they will be marginalized further by the illegal alien loving, pro-aztlan, mehicano and other “latino” voters. If they register they ought to register republican and talk with Diamond and Silk— who GET it!
But folks can live vicariously through their heroes.
I’m confused. Why is the success of the movie a travesty?
Seems to me all of the people complaining about the movie and just generating even more box office for it.
s/b Seems to me all of the people complaining about the movie ARE just generating even more box office for it.
I don’t understand why with all the real travesties challenging us these days the success of a movie is an issue to label as travesty.
>>it may be the dumbest movie ever ...<<
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Hey! Wait a minute! What about all the advanced African nations that thrived before Whitey got there (i.e., before discovery and 19th century cultivation of quinine allowed Europeans to enter the malaria-ridden interior)?? /sarc
Me neither.
Yeah, racism sells. That’s also how got 2-term Obama. Go celebrate.
“Why don’t we use the number of tickets sold?”
Gone With The Wind was released in 1939, US population was 130.88 million.
Black Panther released 2018, US population is 326.97 million.
How about number of tickets sold as a % of population.
That might give a better picture.
Are you on drugs? I didn’t “compare” any movie, or talk about box office...I merely quoted a line to echo how I feel about all hype on this new movie.
And I still don’t give a damn.
Sober up, and try again.
The pitch of the ‘importance’ of this movie IS a black nationalist/black separatist appeal. And it is compatible with Nation of Islam’s tale about a brilliant Afticsn scientist and their once superior culture.
Well, bless your heart.
Where is my super suit?!
Marvel is on a tear lately. It’s as big as Star Wars now.
good thing everyone at the theater is working for an hourly wage and not for tips.
Last movie I saw in a theater was Bolt (2008). Let’s look at the movie industry.
Marvel is schooling the old studious by cranking out winners. Black Panther is another winner. What will Disney, Paramount and WB do when the super heroes run out of steam?They should make movies that always sell: G-rated Christian family movies.
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