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Black Panther On Course To Pounce In February’s Box Office
The King Of The Box Office For February?
♦ Over at Variety, they have just predicted unsurprisingly that Marvel’s Black Panther, out in cinemas the middle of next month, will have a very strong opening weekend just in the US…
That would be a similar range to the two most recent Marvel entries — Spider-Man: Homecoming, which launched to $117 million in its opening weekend in July, and Thor: Ragnarok which debuted with $122 million on the second weekend of November. Tracking showed total awareness of Black Panther at 83%, unaided awareness at 35%, and definite interest at 56%.
Advance ticket sales for Black Panther set a new record earlier this month for Fandango as the top seller among Marvel Cinematic Universe movies in the first 24 hours, eclipsing Captain America: Civil War.
Chadwick Boseman stars as T’Challa, who takes over as the king of Wakanda after his father T’Chaka is killed, as shown in “Captain America: Civil War.” The film also stars Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker and Michael B. Jordan. Ryan Coogler directed the movie from a script he co-wrote with Joe Robert Cole.
Black Panther is the 18th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Captain America: Civil War opened in May of 2016, and is the 15th-highest worldwide grosser, with $1.15 billion. Thor: Ragnarok took in $851 million worldwide.
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