Black Panther Movie Scores Record $108M in Second Week Outing at Box Office. Over $400 Million to date
Ryan Coogler’s groundbreaking superhero pic Black Panther continued to defy all expectations in its sophomore outing, grossing an estimated $108 million from 4,040 theaters to score the top second weekend of all time behind Star Wars: Force Awakens.
The Disney and Marvel title raced past the $400 million mark in the U.S. in just 10 days after dropping a narrow 47 percent from its opening weekend. That’s one of the lowest declines ever for a superhero title, as well as one of the lowest for a film launching north of $200 million (the bigger the opening, the bigger the drop in many instances).
Overseas, it earned $83.8 million for an international tally of $304 million and global haul of $704 million.
In North America, Black Panther earned more in its second outing than any number of 2017 tentpoles did in their first weekend, including Wonder Woman ($103.3 million), Justice League ($93 million) and The Fast and the Furious ($98.8 million). And it ties with Jurassic World in reaching $400 million faster than any film in history behind Force Awakens.
Force Awakens also is the champ in terms of biggest second weekend domestically with $149.2 million, not accounting for inflation. Black Panther passed up the likes of Jurassic World ($106.6 million) and fellow MCU title The Avengers ($103.1 million).
The movie continued to play to an ethnically diverse audience. Caucasians made up a bigger share of ticket buyers this time out, or 37 percent, compared to 35 percent on opening weekend, while the African-American share went from 37 percent to 33 percent according to comScore/Screen Engine. Hispanics remain unchanged at 18 percent, followed by Asians (7 percent) and Native Americans/Other (5 percent). No other marquee superhero tentpole has played to such a diverse audience.
This article originally appeared on The Hollywood Reporter.
