Posted on 02/20/2018 11:19:27 AM PST by EdnaMode
Disney-Marvel’s “Black Panther” is re-writing the record books, topping “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” for the second-highest four-day domestic opening of all time, with $242 million at 4,020 North American locations.
The superhero pic set a record for top Monday domestic gross ever, with $40.2 million, edging the previous high set by “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” at $40.1 million. The Monday total came in $7 million above the studio’s projections and lifted the four-day haul to $242 million.
“Black Panther” has grossed the second-highest four-day total of all time, behind only “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” at $288.1 million and $400,000 ahead of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.”
Disney also reported Tuesday that the international total has reached $184.6 million to lift the worldwide take to $426.6 million, led by South Korea at $27.1 million and the U.K. at $26.7 million
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They are simply giving people what they want. Think about that for a second.
Without SEX and VIOLENCE, Hollywood would have gone bankrupt 50 years ago.
Exactly. Seems liberals want black who’re basic street gang hero’s.
They each were praising the remarkably conservative themes of Black Panther. How Wakanda is a nation of people who support themselves, maintain their borders, and are at heart capitalists. And the bad guys were almost blatantly Black Lives Matter.
I am intrigued, to put it mildly.
Cigarettes were banned from movies and TV because watching someone smoke on TV causes children to smoke.
But drugs, sex and violence in the media have no effect.
The entire point of the film is to make Africans look intelligent. I just observe their cities and countries. I don’t need a movie to show otherwise.
Ummm, Last Jedi was not all that......
The ONLY reason Last Jedi did as well as it did was because of the Star Wars fan base.
The lamentable thing to me is the “Vibranium” and its role as Giver of Technological Prowess. In the first place, it’s just a fantastical idea, and in fact inane.
In the second place, what are the virtues required to exploit it? I think this is a murky area, but I guess the idea is they must have been pretty smart to do so. OTOH, all that is evident is that they have possession of it, and know very well how to keep that possession. ( Haven’t seen it! so dunno ... )
Contemplation of all this puts me in mind of an illustration in my book, THE BOY SCIENTIST, of Newton, “who surpassed all men of genius” , making doll furniture for his young lady friends as a youth.
Historic Opening?
Will history books in the future tell the story of how much money this movie made?
I was listening to kabc radio this morning and they had a movie reviewer on and he and the host were talking about the movie for about 20 mins. They talked about diversity and raising the hopes of black people everywhere and never got around to saying what the movie was about.....
200 million is not the same today as it was in the past. When you adjust the first 1977 Star Wars movie for inflation, the total box office in today’s dollars would be 3 billion
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