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97% Black Panther

81% Game Night

58% Peter Rabbit

87% Annihilation

12% Fifty Shades Freed
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50% Every Day (2018)

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Box Office: ‘Black Panther’ Rules With $108 Million in Second Weekend

Disney-Marvel’s “Black Panther”is dominating the box office with an astounding $108 million at 4,020 North American locations — the second-highest second weekend ever behind “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”

“Black Panther,” starring Chadwick Boseman, has now grossed $400 million domestically in its first 10 days. Only “The Force Awakens” has reached that milestone faster. It’s also grossed $304 million internationally.

The superhero film, the 18th in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, declined only 46% from its opening Friday-Sunday — underlining the film’s massive appeal among moviegoers. “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” set the second weekend record with $149 million in 2015, and “Black Panther” topped the second weekends of 2015’s “Jurassic World” at $106.6 million, and 2012’s “The Avengers” with $103 million.

“Black Panther,” directed by Ryan Coogler, has caught on with moviegoers this month in a way that few other titles have in Hollywood’s recent history — blowing past last month’s tracking that showed it would open in the $100 million to $120 million range. It’s notched an A+ Cinemascore — becoming only the second Marvel film to do so — and has dazzled critics with a 97% “fresh” score on Rotten Tomatoes. The film also stars Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya and Letitia Wright.

ComScore’s PostTrack scores of the audience for the second weekend show support among moviegoers far above average with 69% rating the film as “excellent” and another 23% as “very good.” And it’s done so outside the traditional summer and holiday season corridors for blockbusters, noted Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst with comScore.

“‘Black Panther’ continues to elevate the month of February to summer-style blockbuster status with a second weekend that represents only the third time that a film has posted a $100 million plus weekend performance during the month (behind only its $202 million debut and ‘Deadpool’s’ $132 million opening in 2016),” he said. “And with a North American cume through Sunday of $400 million, it is the highest grossing film ever released in the month after just 10 days in theaters beating the long-standing $370.3 million record held by 2004’s ‘The Passion of The Christ.'”

Demographics of the second-weekend audience were 33% African-American, 37% Caucasian, 18% Hispanic, 7% Asian and 5% others. The opening weekend was 37% African-American, 35% Caucasian, 18% Hispanic, 5% Asian and 5% other.

Thanks to “Black Panther” and Sony’s “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle,” 2018 domestic box office has increased by an eye-popping 12.5% to $1.91 billion as of Sunday, according to comScore.

Warner Bros.-New Line’s opening of R-rated “Game Night,” starring Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams, finished a distant second with $16.6 million from 3,488 locations. The film is directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, and follows Bateman and McAdams as couple whose regular game night suddenly turns into a murder mystery. Critics have given “Game Night” strong support, helping draw an 82% “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Sony’s third weekend of “Peter Rabbit” hopped into third place with $12.5 million at 3,707 sites, giving the family comedy $71.3 million after 17 days. That was enough to edge Paramount’s sci-fi thriller “Annihilation” with a respectable $11 million at 2,102 venues, in line with forecasts.

Universal’s third weekend of “Fifty Shades Freed” followed in fifth with $6.9 million at 3,265 locations as the erotic romancer slid 60%. The finale of the trilogy has topped $89 million in 17 days.

Sony’s 10th weekend of its comedy hit “Jumanji” took sixth place with $5.7 million at 2,519 venues, declining only 29% and lifting the 68-day total to $387.3 million.

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[TrainedRage]

Jumanji is still in theaters? Jumanji is still making millions of dollars in theaters?




....I mean I haven't seen it so it could be extremely good, but what? I honestly don't understand movie tastes of the masses anymore.

 

[t-storm]

Jumanji is still in theaters? Jumanji is still making millions of dollars in theaters?




....I mean I haven't seen it so it could be extremely good, but what? I honestly don't understand movie tastes of the masses anymore.

Im not sure if it’s ‘good’ but it was really the only other option in theatres over the holidays while Last Jedi was playing so it made bank.

 

[Grizzlyjin]

This Black Panther run is insane. Only a 46% drop after such a fantastic opening weekend?! Whew. And it really doesn't have any strong competition for awhile. Tomb Raider, Ready Player One, Pacific Rim, and even Wrinkle in Time are big question marks.

I think Game Night will have a slow & steady run based off the reviews and audience reactions. It'll clean up on video and streaming for sure, so I'm betting it'll end up being a win for Warner Bros in the long run

Jumanji and The Greatest Showman are going to be those kinda movies that still make $$ in theaters after they come out on video, which will be in like 9 days for Jumanji. They'll get pushed out to the dollar theaters and people will watch them cause it's cheaper than a rental

Annihilation did what it could...I think Paramount had the right idea selling off the international rights to Netflix. Even if it had expanded to more theaters, I doubt it would've made much difference. It's reviewing really well, but the Cinemascore is disastrously bad. Probably due to how it was marketed, but marketing it sincerely probably would've only attracted the same niche audience that it got this weekend. *shrug*

 

[Graven]

This Black Panther run is insane. Only a 46% drop after such a fantastic opening weekend?! Whew. And it really doesn't have any strong competition for awhile. Tomb Raider, Ready Player One, Pacific Rim, and even Wrinkle in Time are big question marks.

I think Game Night will have a slow & steady run based off the reviews and audience reactions. It'll clean up on video and streaming for sure, so I'm betting it'll end up being a win for Warner Bros in the long run

Jumanji and The Greatest Showman are going to be those kinda movies that still make $$ in theaters after they come out on video, which will be in like 9 days for Jumanji. They'll get pushed out to the dollar theaters and people will watch them cause it's cheaper than a rental

Annihilation did what it could...I think Paramount had the right idea selling off the international rights to Netflix. Even if it had expanded to more theaters, I doubt it would've made much difference. It's reviewing really well, but the Cinemascore is disastrously bad. Probably due to how it was marketed, but marketing it sincerely probably would've only attracted the same niche audience that it got this weekend. *shrug*

I've been questioning myself about this movie. From the trailers, it seemed to be some sort of terror/thriller involving monsters and whatnot, however from what i heard in a spoiler free review, is that it's sort of a philosofical movie.

 

[Corrik]

The trailer turned me off a tad to black panther, but I am fully hyped now. Hope to see it sooner or later.

 

[michaelius]

Jumanji is still in theaters? Jumanji is still making millions of dollars in theaters?




....I mean I haven't seen it so it could be extremely good, but what? I honestly don't understand movie tastes of the masses anymore.

Look at the bright side - at least it isn't superhero universe movie

 

[CampbellzSoup]

Annihilation was pretty lackluster and marketed as it was going to be much better.

Game Night was stupid fun but fun to watch honestly.

Black Panther rocked it.

Jumanji again like game night was stupid fun but enjoyable.

Star Wars was a SJW Hotmess.

As you can see I have MoviePass

 

[rokkerkory]

BP gonna hit 1 billion gross very soon!

 

[AnotherDayAnotherDollar]

Annihilation was pretty lackluster and marketed as it was going to be much better.

Game Night was stupid fun but fun to watch honestly.

Black Panther rocked it.

Jumanji again like game night was stupid fun but enjoyable.

Star Wars was a SJW Hotmess.

As you can see I have MoviePass

Agreed.

Haven't seen it yet

Agreed.

Disagree. That movie is overrated as fuck.

Disagree. Why do you think it's an SJW mess? I hate SJWness and I didn't feel like it was one.

 

[mckmas8808]

So is it possible for Black Panther to make $600 Million in America alone?

 

[AnotherDayAnotherDollar]

That's actually likely at this point.

 

[Phoenix RISING]

$1B for Black Panther in just four weeks is...SMH.

Hollywood has been doing it wrong all along.

 

[Corrik]

Marvel/Disney is capitalizing off of waves of momentum over and over again. DC will try to replicate and get shit on too lol.

 

[JLMC469]

Insane numbers. Can it reach $1.5B (worldwide)?

 

[Corrik]

Insane numbers. Can it reach $1.5B (worldwide)?

It is alrdy 1 billion isn't it?

 

[JLMC469]

It is alrdy 1 billion isn't it?

Box Office Mojo has it @ $700K

 

[MaulerX]

So the weekend actuals were $111,658,835 for BP. So far during this run the actual numbers have always been better than the already great estimates. Curious to see how far this goes.

 

[Grizzlyjin]

Rumblings aren't good for A Wrinkle in Time, sadly. Very mixed social media reactions after the premiere (when they're usually glowing no matter) and Disney is holding back formal reviews until 1 day before release, another bad sign. Lots of filmmakers I love have stuff dropping in March, but I got a feeling in my gut all the big March releases will be weak and Black Panther will keep chugging along, breaking records

 

[MaulerX]

Box Office Mojo has it @ $700K

That sounds a little bit low to me ;-)

 

[JLMC469]

That sounds a little bit low to me ;-)

$700m

 

[Hashmal_Bringer_of_Order]

Rumblings aren't good for A Wrinkle in Time, sadly. Very mixed social media reactions after the premiere (when they're usually glowing no matter) and Disney is holding back formal reviews until 1 day before release, another bad sign. Lots of filmmakers I love have stuff dropping in March, but I got a feeling in my gut all the big March releases will be weak and Black Panther will keep chugging along, breaking records

$1B for Black Panther in just four weeks is...SMH.

Hollywood has been doing it wrong all along.

If anyone thinks just having Black characters will get them Black Panther numbers, they're in for a very rude awakening. Black Panther is a great Marvel movie firstly.

 

[mckmas8808]

Rumblings aren't good for A Wrinkle in Time, sadly. Very mixed social media reactions after the premiere (when they're usually glowing no matter) and Disney is holding back formal reviews until 1 day before release, another bad sign. Lots of filmmakers I love have stuff dropping in March, but I got a feeling in my gut all the big March releases will be weak and Black Panther will keep chugging along, breaking records

I hate to read this because I'm a fan of Ava too.

 

[Phoenix RISING]

If anyone thinks just having Black characters will get them Black Panther numbers, they're in for a very rude awakening. Black Panther is a great Marvel movie firstly.

Nah.

You can just do Get Out numbers, $176,040,665 domestic vs $4.5 million budget

 

[bigedole]

My Father-in-law worked on the set of Black Panther, so very happy for the success of that movie! He was so excited for us to see his name in the credits He's been on the set of a few big budget movies, but he seemed more excited about this one than others!