I kept waiting for @Emh to bring this up, but since he's asleep at the switch...
Black Panther breaks $700 million domestic!
Black Panther breaks $700 million domestic!
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Well, damn, I honestly didn't think it was going to make it since it dropped down to 15 theaters last week. I see it went up to 25 for the weekend and that was enough for it to make the mark!
Sigh. Is it wrong to see this after "Infinity War".
I really enjoyed it. Enjoyed the characters, they owned it. This is the way character in fiction works, it fits with the story and the adventure. T'Challa and Shuri were my favourites because I thought their brother/sister banter was so real.
Really a lot of fun. A.
I really enjoyed it. Enjoyed the characters, they owned it. This is the way character in fiction works, it fits with the story and the adventure. T'Challa and Shuri were my favourites because I thought their brother/sister banter was so real.
Really a lot of fun. A.
Congrats to Black Panther for now being only the third film to domestically hit $700m!!
Infinity War is so close but never going to get there sadly. Maybe Avengers 4 will.
Infinity War is so close but never going to get there sadly. Maybe Avengers 4 will.
Yeah, Infinity War is simply not going to make it. It's $20+ million away and, at this point in its run, Black Panther was less than $2 million away.
On a less awesome note, it took Black Panther 65 days to make that last million and it had two small theater surges at the end to reach that mark. With that in mind, I wouldn't be surprised if someone high up made sure the film stayed in theaters as long as possible (and well past the home media release) just so it could hit that milestone.
On a less awesome note, it took Black Panther 65 days to make that last million and it had two small theater surges at the end to reach that mark. With that in mind, I wouldn't be surprised if someone high up made sure the film stayed in theaters as long as possible (and well past the home media release) just so it could hit that milestone.
There was a lot of pressure for this to be successful by some people, but it's a great movie and I'm happy it was that successful for that reason only.
I've been a fan of Black Panther since his first appearance in Avengers, although he was just wearing clothes and not a super magically advanced high tech suit, but then Iron Man only had holes in his helmet to look out of then, too.
I've been a fan of Black Panther since his first appearance in Avengers, although he was just wearing clothes and not a super magically advanced high tech suit, but then Iron Man only had holes in his helmet to look out of then, too.
Amazing to think that it’s made more money than Avengers looks set to make, given that so few of the general public would’ve been aware of the character a year ago. It really has become a phenomenon.
I think it's because it had this sense of being new and fresh. An adventure started. Lately with Captain America Civil War and the Thanos thing ... er... wiping out half our heroes, the Avengers stories are simply less fun.
Black Panther, no doubt, is going to be the new face of The Avengers and the MCU going forward.
He's just too popular at this point to sideline, and it's incredibly unlikely any other solo character could achieve this level of success in their first outing.
BP is gonna be front and center.
He's just too popular at this point to sideline, and it's incredibly unlikely any other solo character could achieve this level of success in their first outing.
BP is gonna be front and center.
It's going to be fascinating to see how well "Captain Marvel" fits in the popularity stakes.
The Academy is creating a new "Popular Films" category.
Call me cynical, but this feels like they're adding this category as a thoughtless, preemptive measure to avoid any potential and real backlash for not nominating (or gods forbid, actually award) Black Panther while also not "sullying" the "prestige" of the Best Picture category with a superhero film, no matter how good that film might be. Especially considering the common belief the Best Picture category was expanded to 10 nominations in response to the backlash for not nominating The Dark Knight and WALL E.
Call me cynical, but this feels like they're adding this category as a thoughtless, preemptive measure to avoid any potential and real backlash for not nominating (or gods forbid, actually award) Black Panther while also not "sullying" the "prestige" of the Best Picture category with a superhero film, no matter how good that film might be. Especially considering the common belief the Best Picture category was expanded to 10 nominations in response to the backlash for not nominating The Dark Knight and WALL E.
Will probably end up doing the standard 700-800M worldwide.
A genre studio tentpole led by a White Woman won't have major cultural impact anymore. It's been done. It isn't groundbreaking.
BP was a cultural phenomenon, not surprised it did as well as it did. Also not surprised the Academy clearly wants to create a new category for BP.
I guess I missed on it being a cultural phenomenon as such. I saw it as just a really good movie.
It’s too bad there is no demographic data on who exactly is contributing all this box office revenue.
I suspect BP’s popularity may have to do with the fact that it addresses real world issues, unlike IW. A Mad Titan killing half of everybody with a magical gauntlet and a snap of his fingers isn’t something we need to worry about much in the real world. But Killmonger is motivated by very legitimate real-world grievances that speak strongly to a lot of people, whether or not you approve of his methods. I wonder if BP’s domestic box office success might be due a lot to African-Americans going, “Yes! Finally, a movie that speaks to us!”
I’m not American much less African-American and while I enjoyed BP, I wouldn’t have put it in my top 10 MCU films. However, if articles and posts I’ve read on twitter and Facebook as well as movie and other magazines are anything to go by, it seems to have really struck a chord with African-American audiences in a way that other superhero films, even those rare ones with a black lead, did not. That’s simply an anecdotal observation on my part but it’s incredible box-office does seem to support it.
Come to think of it, I wonder if it might also strike a chord with the kind of people who are preparing for Racial Holy War. Killmonger would be a perfect supervillain for them.
Of course, T’Challa wouldn’t exactly be their ideal hero. They’d probably prefer a movie where Black Panther sides with Killmonger and white people have to rise up to destroy them.
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and raise you I'm not African-American either but there's probably something to be said that we are drawn to elements of a story or depiction that might hit a nerve or get to you in some way. Like I re-read my entry above rating the movie and I noticed I mentioned how I liked the brother/sister dynamic. It reminded me of mine. The Killmonger backstory didn't hit a nerve at all. I didn't like him or feel much pity for him. I liked the end though where T'Challa and Shuri are looking at what to do with neighbourhood he had literally bought. The kids hanging out seeing this de-cloaked space ship landing 