TheBlack Pantherbox office train keeps on rollin’. The Marvel Studios film bowed to record-breaking numbers last weekend, scoring over $200 million in just three days, and now the film is poised to cross the $500 million mark at the worldwide box office today. The film finished with an MCU-best $14.5 million Wednesday, surpassingThe Avengers’ previous Wednesday record of $13.6 million. That is very, very good news as we head into the film’s second weekend of release, where it looks likeBlack Pantheris going to have a very strong hold on the box office throne. Moreover, the film is going to pass the final worldwide gross ofAnt-Man($519 million) in a single week.
With this $500 million marker, Disney as a whole has crossed the $1 billion mark for 2018 in just 52 days. Under CEOBob Iger’s reign, he’s brought Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm all into the Disney fold, and the result is a 2019 slate that includesAvengers 4,Toy Story 4,Star Wars: Episode IX, andFrozen 2, not to mention highly anticipated live-action remakes ofThe Lion King,Aladdin, andDumbowhich are sure to soar. So yeah, Disney is sitting pretty.
Back toBlack Panther, it’ll be really interesting to see where this movie ends up.Spider-Man: Homecomingis the highest-grossing “inaugural” film for a Marvel character at $880.1 worldwide, butBlack Pantheris already at $500 million and it hasn’t even opened in Japan or China yet. It doesn’t seem too big of a stretch to imagine it overtaking that total. Moreover, I’m starting to think—domestically at least—Black Pantheris going to outgross the May sequelAvengers: Infinity War. It’s already at $277 million heading into its second weekend. Time will tell, but this thing is huge and the numbers aren’t slowing down anytime soon.
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