Ryan Coogler Ava Du Vernay makes distant dreams a reality
It easily topped the opening weekend of fantasy-adventure movie A Wrinkle in Time, which took $US33.5 million ($43m) at 3,980 sites.
According to The Grapevine Black Panther reached the $1 billion dollar milestone at the global box offices this weekend, raking in $562 million in the U.S alone, and a whopping $41 million during the weekend! Black Panther also opened in China this weekend, earning $66.5 million.
High box-office returns were expected, especially with this being the first film directed by a woman of colour boasting a budget of over US$100 million (RM390 million).
Black Panther and A Wrinkle in Time are both sending shockwaves throughout the entertainment industry.
A Wrinkle in Time sees Ava DuVernay directing a cast that includes Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Chris Pine, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Zach Galifianakis, Levi Miller, Andre Holland and Deric McCabe.
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So they could score the two goals and that made the game not easy". "But our team was always in control". We have to defend these two situations better and we have to be clinical", he said.
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"When you think about having two films at the top of the box office, it's definitely a win all around", said Disney's worldwide theatrical distribution president Dave Hollis (via Time). "A Wrinkle In Time" held a close score with $33.3 million.
"We're feeling good about this start".
This week, the opening of Aviron Pictures' The Strangers: Prey at Night came in third with US$10.5 million at 2,464 venues. The Johannes Roberts-directed horror sequel placed third at the domestic box office with an estimated $10.5 million.
Fox's second weekend of Jennifer Lawrence's spy thriller Red Sparrow followed in fourth with US$8.2 million at 3,064 sites with a 52 per cent decline.
Down one place, "Game Night" takes #5 with $7.9 million (cume now $45.0 million). The movie was not universally adored by critics, while moviegoers also did not have the best things to say; it earned a B CinemaScore, which may hurt second-weekend results due to a relatively worse word-of-mouth response (Black Panther netted an A+ CinemaScore).
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