Unsurprisingly, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is expected to clean up at the box office
The Marvel sequel's predecessor, Black Panther, netted $1.3 billion worldwide back in 2018
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In absolutely shocking news, the next chapter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is expected to make a lot of money. As reported by Variety, current projections by NRG expect Black Panther: Wakanda Forever to rake in $175 million domestically on opening weekend. It’s the third feature from Marvel Studios to be released this year, following Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness, which opened to $187.4 million, and Thor: Love And Thunder, which debuted at over $144 million.
Back in 2018, the sequel’s predecessor took Marvel’s cultural impact to a new level and earned over $1.3 billion worldwide. Black Panther became the fifth MCU movie to join the billion-dollar club, following The Avengers, Iron Man 3, Avengers: Age Of Ultron, and Captain America: Civil War. Last year’s Spider-Man: No Way Home was the most recent installment in the franchise to hit the 10-figure mark.
Of course, cinemas have yet to return to pre-pandemic attendance, and the top hauls of Spider-Man: No Way Home and Top Gun: Maverick are outliers these days. An anticipated winter surge in Covid case rates could also curtail Marvel fans going back for repeat viewings to catch more details and easter eggs. Still, this release will definitely generate some serious cash for theaters. (Sorry, Amsterdam.)
Besides the box office, there’s a lot riding on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. The film will reflect the 2020 death of star Chadwick Boseman and follow the grieving Wakandans as they face off against an underwater nation led by Namor (Tenoch Huerta) and select a new hero to assume the title of Black Panther.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever closes out Phase Four of the MCU and will presumably set up some major stakes going forward, though the Avengers aren’t tipped to get back together until 2025. CIA Agent Everett Ross (Martin Freeman) is returning, leading into his next appearance in the Disney+ series Secret Invasion, out next year.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever hits theaters on November 11.
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“Oh my goodness Ramonda on the throne SPOILER!!!”
It will make an incredible amount of money, but is it cinema?!?
I like to think of it as Winema
Cinema fans can watch “Amsterdam”, it needs the audience.
I have a friend that refuses to watch the first Black Panther movie, along with the Captain Marvel movie. But they still constantly say they’ve seen every MCU film, for which I correct them every time. They said most recently “I think the magic of the early days of the MCU is gone.” To why I reply: “What magic?” Since about half the movies are really good and the other half are kind just okay.The first Iron Man was cool and all, but I didn’t much care for the 2nd one and I mostly disliked the 3rd movie. The first Thor movie is okay, but the 2nd movie is absolutely abysmal, and it wouldn’t be until Thor Ragnarok that I finally saw a Thor movie worth watching more than once (though the 4th is also pretty abysmal). I did well like the first Captain America movie, but it didn’t grow on me… The 2nd one, however, The Winter Solder… Now that movie fucking ruled, along with Civil War. For the Avengers movies, I think the first one is enjoyable, but Age of Ultron was kinda meh after the second time going through it. Meanwhile, Infinity War and Endgame are quite spectacularly phenomenal. The Ant-Man movies are both the same to me, and are mostly okay. The breakout movies that I really loved were the first Dr. Strange movie, the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie, and the first Black Panther. The 2nd Dr. Strange and 2nd Guardians of the Galaxy are pretty hit or miss for me… Black Window was also just kinda meh. The only full series of films I really like are the Marvel Spider-Man movies, where all of them are absolutely great.To me, the MCU isn’t magical, it’s just a vehicle for some good films. Not all of them are worth repeated watches, but at no point do I say that any one phase is better than the other. All of them have movies that struggled to entertain, and publicly picking a favorite phase usually always leads to arguments.
Is your friend just an out and out racist and sexist? There is some magic in the early MCU, and it is in fact gone now. There was something delightful and novel about the connectivity of the movies and the first Avengers movie is the culmination of that. But after that, it was simply the formula the MCU used, to better or worse effect. Very much like the first time you have sushi or curry or some other foreign dish for the first time and it blows your socks off. You might have many better or worse versions later in life, but nothing hits quite like that first time. People who can’t figure out why the MCU isn’t producing the highs that it once did lack a fundamental understanding of how things work. Things can only be new once.
My thoughts exactly do they like not see women or people of colour either in every day life? Refuses to accept they exist? Yikes. This is your friend…?
I make fun of them for their reasoning for possibly being racist or sexist. But my friend is a girl and she says she just doesn’t care for those characters, which creates a lot of ribbing on my part.For me, I wasn’t into the whole MCU until Phase 3 kicked things into a really high gear. While Phase 2 did have the Winter Soldier and first Guardians of the Galaxy movie… Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, and Avengers: Age of Ultron weren’t really spectacular enough to pull me in. But by Phase 3, everything got really good. We got the Civil War movie, the Spider-Man movies, the best Thor movie, the phenomenal Black Panther movie, and the culmination of almost a decade’s worth of narrative leading to Infinity War and Endgame. To me, if there was magic in the MCU, that would have been it. But I’m not saying that having “no magic” was a bad thing. I just think that the highest highs the MCU offered occurred in the middle, when the whole world was tuning in to watch, and almost every phase has movie with some issues.
Women can be racist, y’know.
Was mostly referring to the sexist notion, which I know they’re not, and not just because they’re a girl, but because they’ve actually gone out to things like the Women’s March of 2017 and most recently they protested out in public when Roe v Wade was overturned.
Women can be misogynist, too.
Internalized racism and sexism is one of the most vile manifestations of both.
“Studio says sequel to massively successful movie will also be successful”Why is there a whole article for this?
So nerds can wander over here from Gizmodo and write long form essays about the rankings of Marvel movies (see below).
It turns out just writing a third of an article is quite the technical challenge.
Wait until you see their article about the moisture quality of water and the color of the sky!
Im so excited for this movie that Im stocking up on Grape soda, KFC and forgetting how to swim and be on time for things.
Hold on, Twitter has assured me that companies that “get woke, go broke.”
Are you saying that’s incorrect?