Friday, March 29, 2024

‘Black Panther’ Looking to Break Records with 4-Day Take of $213M+

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*Here’s the latest update on how “Black Panther” is doing at the box office via Deadline. The movie industry tracking site says that by the time the four-day President’s Day holiday stretch ends, “Black Panther” will have surpassed many of Marvel’s biggest on the all-time domestic B.O. openers chart.

Black Panther is now looking at the 6th best opening of all-time on a 3-day-basis with an estimated $187.6M per industry projections and a mind-blowing $213M over four days.

And just how much do moviegoers love the film? The Ryan Coogler-directed movie earned an A+ CinemaScore Friday night, which is Marvel’s second after 2012’s “The Avengers.”

On the 3-day all-time chart, Black Panther is just above “Captain America: Civil War” ($179.1M). Back in January Fandango reported that out of the gate in its first 24 hours, “Black Panther” outstripped the advance tickets sales of “Civil War,” however, analysts didn’t rush to compare the Wakanda superhero to Marvel’s other titles. They just couldn’t believe at the time how massive this was going to be. While “Black Panther” is under “Avengers: Age of Ultron” on the 3-day all-time openers list ($191.2M), the pic is beating the sequel’s four-day run ($204.4M). “Black Panther” has already left Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” ($174.7M) and WB/DC’s “Batman v. Superman” ($166M) in the dust to become the biggest pre-summer opener of all-time.

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‘Black Panther’ writer/director Ryan Coogler

Deadline is also reporting that Screen Engine/ComScore’s PostTrak that African American moviegoers at 40% are driving Black Panther‘s ticket sales. The point is diverse casts in films like “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” “The Last Jedi,” the “Fast and the Furious series,” “Twilight” and “Hunger Games” have always yielded big business, but “Black Panther” with its near total Black ensemble cast is a groundbreaking landmark for Hollywood.

There’s more good news on the diversity front. Disney will continue to break glass ceilings soon after “Black Panther.” On March 9, the studio will open the feature adaptation of the children’s classic “A Wrinkle In Time,” which at a $100M-plus budget is the first production of its scope to be directed by a woman of color, Oscar nominee Ava DuVernay (at one point before Coogler, she was in talks to potentially direct “Black Panther”).

“Wrinkle” is currently tracking for an opening in the $35M range four weeks out from release, but those estimates could increase. In addition, Disney’s 2019 live-action release “The Lion King” touts a large black cast that includes Beyonce, Donald Glover, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Keegan-Michael Key, James Earl Jones, Alfre Woodard and Eric Andre among many others.

You can get More of this story at Deadline.

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