Wakanda Forever gets the biggest November opening of all time at the weekend box office
No other movie stood a chance against Wakanda Forever
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You had a respectable run, Black Adam, but after three weeks at the top of the U.S. box office, you didn’t have a chance this weekend: Dwayne Johnson’s superhero movie fell to second place on the box office charts, making $8.6 million and hitting $151 million total, which is quite a ways short of the debut from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which opened to $180 million this weekend. As The Hollywood Reporter notes, that’s a new record for a movie opening in November, and it’s only $7 million or so lower than the highest opening for all of 2022 (Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness, which enjoyed a post-Spider-Man: No Way Home bump).
Ticket To Paradise hung on in third place, making $6.1 million for a total of $56 million after four weeks, followed by Lyle, Lyle Crocodile, which actually jumped up from sixth to fourth this week despite making less money. Smile, now past $100 million total, rounds out the top 5 with $2.3 million. The bottom five includes Prey For The Devil, The Banshees Of Inishiren, One Piece Film: Red, Till, and Armageddon Time. The only other noteworthy entrant on the charts this week is Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans, which debuted in 14th place with $160,000, but that’s from only four theaters, which means its per-screen average is only slightly lower than that of Wakanda Forever. So it’s absolutely going to be climbing up the charts over the next few weeks, especially for people who want something that isn’t about a superhero. (Though what is a movie about the origin story of Steven Spielberg if not a different kind of superhero movie?)
The full top 10 list from Box Office Mojo is below.
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- Black Adam
- Ticket To Paradise
- Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
- Smile
- Prey For The Devil
- The Banshees Of Inishiren
- One Piece Film: Red
- Till
- Armageddon Time
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Smile, now past $100 million total, rounds out the top 5 with $2.3 million. The bottom five includes Prey For The Devil, The Banshees Of Inishiren, One Piece Film: Red, Till, and Armageddon Time.*InisherinAlso, with top 5 and bottom five, you’re not being consistent about the numerals.
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While I’m predisposed to enjoying them, this feels like one that could
appeal to those who’ve sworn off the MCU. (Of course those are least
likely to see it unless they’re dragged along or stumble upon this
recommendation out of morbid curiosity.) If you see only one Black superhero film this autumn, make it Black Panther: Wakanda Forever instead of Black Adam!
https://mattthecatania.wordpress.com/2022/11/13/black-panther-2-wakanda-forever-boogaloo/
How does Black Christmas fit into this franchise?
This Black Phone erasure will not stand.
It’s the most ambitious holiday crossover movie where the non-Christian leads are taught the true meaning of Christmas as they thwart sorority slashers.
Also watch this movie if you’re an anti vaxxer!I want to included a wordpress blog, but there are more site including avclub that write about the danger of anti vaxxer.
Can I still watch it if I’m not an anti-vaxxer?
I’m certain seeing this film isn’t going to turn me into an anti-vaxxer so I don’t see what the problem is here.
The whole thing reminded me of The Dark Knight Rises… overlong, overwrought. None of the scenes flow and pace is virtually non-existent. Characters making portentous speeches that add up to nothing. An antagonist (lopsidedly) way more interesting and charismatic than any protagonist. I’ll give credit that this doesn’t feel like any other Marvel movie, as if Feige really gave Coogler keys to the kingdom to do his own thing (bar the usual future MCU movie set-ups) but that in itself is damning, because if you excise all the usual Marvel tropes and obvious interference (very clean and easy to do this time around) you’re left with a muddled inert drama and incomprehensible action with unfinished CGI. Bless every actor involved for acting their hearts out though.Really goes to show Boseman and Jordan were the only things holding together the last film.
Its rare when I read a comment this long and basically disagree with all of it. Bravo.
Thanks Racj82 your support is really appreciated.
Overlong is about right.
There’s absolutely no need for a Superhero movie to be more than two and half hours long.
Most movies are overlong these days. But, they at least used the time to let the central arcs breathe and have weight. The time was used much better than some other blockbusters I can think of.
I didn’t feel like the movie was too long, but it really didn’t need the Allegra de Fontaine stuff at all, narratively. i know they’ve gotta set up all the MCU stuff, but still.
Also, turning Okoye into Blue Beetle was just way too much. Does EVERYONE need to have an Iron Man suit?
Disappointing to hear. I generally avoid these superhero movies because they’re all the same homogenized factory-assembled corporate product but relented and watched the first Black Panther, which was solid. Have close to no interest in this one.
Nothing disappointing here. Check it out for yourself one day and give it chance.
These movies live or die by the actors. Pretty much every other aspect of them is mediocre as fuck
So is your refusal to put a period at the end of your sentences while still doing this same boring gimmick poster schtick. Pick a lane..
Doesn’t: “overlong, overwrought. None of the scenes flow and pace is virtually non-existent. Characters making portentous speeches that add up to nothing. An antagonist (lopsidedly) way more interesting and charismatic than any protagonist.” pretty much describe all the Marvel movies?
Wow. 3 days vs 3 weeks of box office, and the MCU pummels DC again. Yikes.
Sigh. I long for the days when a film such as The Graduate could rake in hundreds of millions of dollars and end up the highest-grossing film of the year. What a concept.
People watch and enjoy what they love. What even better concept.
People are going to see what they and are interested in just like they always did.
Just an all white cast where the women are basically just set pieces for the men to take the lead.
Sign off, Martin, you’re drunk.
Oh god. The Graduate didn’t make hundreds of millions of dollars and neither did any other movie like it. That is why Hollywood makes blockbusters.Comic book movies didn’t kill movies like The Graduate. They still exist. Comic book movies didn’t stop movies like The Graduate from becoming billion-dollar blockbusters because they never did. If you want to be a snob, you should stop sounding like a rube.
Adjusted for inflation to today’s dollars The Graduate has a domestic gross of $857 million and is among the 25 highest-grossing films in North American history. The clear and observable fact is that that simply doesn’t – and couldn’t – happen in today’s market.
Please link to your sources
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/chart/top_lifetime_gross_adjusted/?adjust_gross_to=2022&ref_=bo_cso_ac
OK. Good. I wanted somebody to link to Boxoffice Mojo because those numbers are demonstrably wrong and shows how easy misinformation spreads on the Internet and snares naive people.So Boxoffice Mojo claims that The Graduate made $104,945,305 and many sites from The Numbers and Wikipedia reference that but Boxoffice Mojo doesn’t list where it’s source is and, this is important, that’s because BOXOFFICE NUMBERS WEREN’T OFFICIALLY TRACKED UNTIL 1974 with the creation of Exhibitor Relations Company. More than likely Boxoffice Mojo was just making a nutty estimate, like those sites that make wild estimates of celebrities wealth. Before that, a movie’s success wasn’t judged by Box Office but by Distributor Rentals so, while The Graduate page of Wikipedia uses the Boxoffice Mojo number (which is bunkum), the 1967 in Film page uses Distributor Rentals sourced from film historian Joel Waldo Finler’s book and you can see that The Graduate actually made $ 43,100,100 in 1967.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_in_film#Highest-grossing_filmsIf you’re wondering if that number is right, let me link to a New Yorker article from when The Graduate had already been in the theaters for 6 months where it says that the movie had already made $35 million. Considering that we can expect the movie in that era to stick around for a couple months more, you can see that the $ 43 million is the more accurate one.
Oops sorry. Link to that New Yorker articlehttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1968/07/27/the-graduate
I am far from snobbish in movies – I like MCU as well as other, more serious stuff. But it can’t be denied that there is a certain sense of assembly line filmmaking in MCU. Some of their movies stand out – and I have to be honest and say I haven’t seen this one yet so it may very well be one of those – but even for those… they aren’t actually anything I’d call serious cinema. They are popcorn movies and that’s okay – popcorn movies have a place in film viewership and a good place. But I think we can all kinda agree that something like, say, “The Shining” or “The Godfather” is better constructed than “Black Panther” or “Captain America”, regardless of how much we might enjoy both.
Maybe you should go put a sweater on, Pop Pop. It’s cold in here..
Adjusting for inflation is folly to me. Yes, it would’ve made X amount in today’s dollars, but when it was released in 1967, did anyone have the option of waiting for VOD or DVD or cable TV? Was there an Internet to spoil the ending, dampening the box office? Was there 400+ TV shows and video games and a myriad of other ways to entertain myself, other than going to movies? It’s just odd that everyone point to what an old movie would make in now-money but not acknowledge the seismic changes in entertainment landscape that would’ve prevented that from happening.
Thank you for bringing this up. Discussions of box office inevitably stall at the “let’s adjust for inflation!” phase, without accounting for how the cultural and entertainment landscape is radically different. There are so many more entertainment options now than there were in 1968 (even if you just look at movies, currently the average person has access to almost every movie ever made at a moment’s notice!) that to get any kind of apples-to-apples comparison you’d have to do a pretty heavy analysis of what options were available, how much effort was involved in getting access to them, which would vary a lot by location, etc.
Congrats, keep going haha
In the UK, there’s no other movie released last weekend, and my local Odeon has BP:WF on all 13 screens for the whole week. The film’s inevitable impressive numbers feel more like a testament to Disney’s dominance than the film’s quality (it’s good, but not a patch on the first one, and there’s a distracting number of scenes that look like they were copy-pasted from the current Avatar trailer).
I’m actually more surprised Lyle, Lyle Crocodile is doing well. That was a movie that I assumed would pop up, do well for one week and then go to streaming. (I hate to admit it but I want to see it – that was a book I LOVED as a kid)
Lyle Lyle Crocodile (the movie) is not without charm – the cast are great – but it plays like a second rate version of Paddington where the day is won not by humility and understanding but by showing off.The kids I saw it with loved it though, so what do I know?
These numbers mean nothing unless you adjust for inflation. It’s number of tickets sold that gauges a film’s popularity, not how much each ticket costs the person to get in.
i think if the number is that big it means a little something.
Could I wait for Disney Plus for old movies? Yeah, of course a movie would sell more tickets if that was the only chance I could see it and the only other real entertainment was the radio, stage plays and 3 TV channels.
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Yeah, this was probably just one guy who bought one ticket for $180 million.