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Disney’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever It continued to top the US box office charts for the fifth week in a row, grossing an estimated $11.1 million this weekend, according to Box Office Mojo. -until 2009 avatar.
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important facts
Wakanda foreverIt’s the newest superhero movie in Disney’s long-running Marvel Cinematic Universe and 2018’s direct sequel. Black PantherIt has recorded total domestic box office sales of $409.8 million so far.
this Black Panther The sequel is only the third film to gross over $400 million at the box office this year, and will be the second-highest-grossing film this week at the domestic box office in 2022, after the Tom Cruise-led film. Top Gun: Maverick.
Universal Pictures’ Christmas action comedy Fierce Night It took second place on the box office charts for the second weekend in a row after making an estimated $8.7 million this weekend.
Disney’s newest animated feature strange world, A huge failure for the studio, it continued to run badly, reporting a distant third-place finish at just $3.6 million.
The absence of any major new releases meant an overall terrible weekend at the box office, which only managed to gross about $39 million, making it the second-worst weekend of the year.
Tangent
Film directed by Darren Aronofsky Whale, Starring Brendan Fraser, it managed to collect $360,000 at the box office, despite being released in only six theaters in New York and Los Angeles. By hollywood reporterThe movie’s average weekend gross of $60,000 per theater is the best for any movie released this year. Everything Everywhere at the Same Time$50,000 per movie. Despite mediocre reviews and a dismal story, online interest for the film remained strong after reports of standing ovation in the festival circle and Internet ravings for Fraser, who was in the midst of a career renaissance.
What to Watch?
Disney’s upcoming release Avatar: The Way of WaterThe highly anticipated sequel to James Cameron’s 2009 blockbuster Avatar will definitely boost the box office numbers next weekend. But how big of an opening the Avatar sequel can achieve remains a question. First avatar It is the fourth highest-grossing film of all time at the domestic box office and the highest film of all time considering global box office figures, with total worldwide earnings of $2.9 billion. The sequel to Cameron’s technical and visual masterpiece has been around for several years, but it’s unclear whether the series has built up a dedicated fan base like Disney’s other mega-properties like Star Wars and Marvel.
Key Background
The Black Panther sequel is very close to taking second place in 2022 domestic box office sales after its strong weekend performance lagging just $1.5 million. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness– another Marvel release. When you left behind Doctor Strange’s scoreboard, Wakanda forever It will be the most successful Marvel Cinematic Universe distributed by Disney since 2019. Avengers: Endgame— beaten only by the 2021s Spider-Man: No Homecoming Distributed by Sony. Despite its success, Wakanda forever It still lags behind the original Black Panther, which grossed $202 million in its first weekend and ended the series with $700 million in domestic box office sales.
Weekend Box Office Domestic Gross (estimated)
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Week 5) — $11.1 million
- Fierce Night (Week 2) — $8.7 million
- strange world (Week 3) — $3.6 million
- Menu (Week 4) — $2.7 million
- Devotion (Week 3) — $2 million
- Black man (Week 8) — $1.3 million
- Fabelmans (Week 5) — $1.2 million
- I Heard the Bells (Week 2) — $751,000
- Spoiler alert (Week 2) — $700,000
- Ticket to Heaven (Week 8) — $600,000
further reading
Weekend Box Office $38M, Near 2022 Low Before ‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ Sucks All The Air (Deadline)
Box Office: ‘Black Panther 2’ Has An Otherwise Bleak Weekend, Over $400 Million Domestically (The Hollywood Reporter)
