Yet therein lies the true novelty of Black Panther its success is not predicated on what came before, but what it promises will come next. Otherwise the only films that earned more in their opening weekend while unadjusted for inflation are two franchises swimming in Member Berries nostalgia: Disney’s two episodic Star Wars movies and Jurassic World. Not only did Black Panther blow past the $175 million-mark (which is more than any opening for a movie starring Batman, Superman, or Spider-Man), but it also rocketed beyond every Iron Man, Captain America, and all other Marvel Studios films, excepting for the very first Avengers from 2012 (which opened with more than $207 million). The demand, and need, for a superhero and larger fantasy mythology that serviced more than a strictly white audience has been obviously there for decades, however it seems everyone had underestimated how large that desire was. (By Friday, analysts had moved the number closer to what I had been personally guessing for months: $175 million). Indeed, Black Panther was long expected to be a box office juggernaut, with official industry projections first estimating last month that the film would gross between $100 million and $125 million. That’s all the more impressive since it’s a project that Marvel Studios delayed by a year to make room for another Spider-Man movie. After all, it already has the fifth biggest opening of all time with an estimated three-day haul of $201 million, and an expected grand total of $235 million for its four-day holiday weekend. The film is only at the very beginning of what is likely to be a historic box office run. It was bold, beautiful, and about a Black Panther, aka Marvel Studios superhero T’Challa-well that, and so much more. As you’ve undoubtedly heard by now, it’s only February and we may have just seen the biggest movie of the year.
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