The box office roared back to life with the long-awaited release of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Know more:
The Marvel sequel earned $180 million in ticket sales from more than 4,396 theaters in the US and Canada, according to estimates from The Walt Disney Co. on Sunday, making it the second biggest opening of the year behind. Overseas, it brought in an additional $150 million from 50 territories, bringing its worldwide total to $330 million.
“Some may have hoped for $200 million like the first film, but this is solid,” said Paul Dergarabedian, comScore’s senior media analyst. “This is the type of movie that theaters really need to drive audiences.” The first film opened to $202 million in February 2018 and went on to gross over $1.4 billion worldwide, making it one of the highest grossing films of all time and a cultural phenomenon. A sequel was inevitable, and development began soon after with director Ryan Coogler returning, but everything changed after Chadwick Boseman’s unexpected death in August 2020.became, instead, about the death of Boseman’s King T’Challa/Black Panther, and the grieving kingdom he left behind.
It currently holds an 84 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and, as is often the case with comic book films, the audience scores are even higher.Spider-Man: No Way HomeDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
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