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Through Monday, the Marvel Studios release has earned $242.2 million domestically, the second-best four-day return ever for a feature film, behind only Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Internationally, Black Panther is also a giant blockbuster, earning $184.6 million through Monday and that's before the film has premiered in China, Japan, and Russia, three of the biggest markets in the world.
The film has become a watershed for movies starring black actors, dismantling the myth in Hollywood that they aren't financially successful internationally. It is also an unprecedented hit for a film set in Africa in Black Panther's case, the fictional nation of Wakanda, but still emphatically set within the continent.
So it's perhaps not that surprising that Black Panther also broke several box office records in Africa. Disney confirmed to BuzzFeed News that the film earned the third-biggest opening weekend in South Africa (behind 2015's Furious 7 and 2017's The Fate of the Furious), and set new opening weekend records in the film distribution territories of West Africa and East Africa (each consisting of several countries).
The amounts of those records are fractions of what Black Panther has earned elsewhere in the world: In South Africa, it was $1.4 million; in West Africa, roughly $400,000, and in East Africa, roughly $300,000.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/adambvary/black-panther-box-office-records-africa?utm_term=.qmVYQBdxm4#.mmx0LKr6D3
ChoppinBroccoli
(3,784 posts)............that ALL Panthers Matter!
HipChick
(25,485 posts)SunSeeker
(51,646 posts)Volaris
(10,274 posts)Civil War was a pretty good international spy thriller with a 45 minute super-hero movie dropped into the middle of it. THIS film, is a Family Drama that on its own is nearly as good as Boyz in the Hood...with fucking superheros.
How MarvelStudios has figured out how to do these things escapes me, but as long as they keep doing it well, they can keep taking my money lol!
I'm counting the days 'till Infinity War.
MLAA
(17,318 posts)And am delighted that kids of color have a new super hero to cheer for!
Baitball Blogger
(46,753 posts)Loved the African background beats that kept you in their world through-out the movie. Loved the way the movie spun out of control right when you were the most comfortable. Loved to see how an entire talented cast had to rise to the occasion, allowing characters to show their strengths.
Loved the final messages.
And there were three quotes that I can see myself repeating in the future:
"I don't want to serve my country, I want to save it."
paraphrasing, We chose the truths that we omit.
And the third, dammit. I'm going to have to see it again since it came early in the movie.