Disney Black Panther: Wakanda Forever surpassed the $700 million mark at the worldwide box office after just over three full weeks of release. After leading the domestic box office for the fourth straight weekend, the film grossed almost $394 million in the United States and another $339 million in foreign countries for a global box office of $733 million.
For comparison, the first Black Panther had already raised over $560 million domestically at that time. A cultural touchstone in many ways, Black Panther ended its domestic run with $700 million — the sixth-highest U.S. haul of all time — and ended its global run with $1.3 billion. Wakanda forever won’t come close to those numbers, but will definitely surpass Marvel’s 2022 release. Thor: Love and Thunder in the next few days both domestically ($343 million) and abroad ($760 million). However, the film’s chances to surpass Doctor Strange in the multiverse of madness“The global catch of $955 million is currently unknown.
Important, Wakanda forever does not play in China and Russia, where the first film grossed over $120 million in total. In addition to groundbreaking box office performance, the first Black Panther also earned Marvel Studios its first ever Oscar nomination for Best Picture.
As for the internal ranking of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Wakanda forever already overtaken The incredible Hulk ($265 million) Captain America: The First Avenger ($370 million) Eternal ($402 million) Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings ($432 million) Thor ($449 million) and Ant-Man ($518 million) at the worldwide box office. The sequel also passed the first iron Man ($585 million) iron Man 2 ($621 million) Ant-Man and the Wasp ($623 million) Thor: The Dark World ($644 million) Doctor Strange ($676 million) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($714 million worldwide). By the way, Black Widow earned $379 million worldwide last year, but this movie was released on the day and date on the Disney+ streaming service for a premium access fee.
Wakanda forever there was an unusually rapid production. Director Ryan Coogler and his co-author Joe Robert Cole were on the verge of finishing the script when the star Chadwick Boseman tragically passed away in 2020. Boseman battled cancer privately for four years, and the film was subsequently remade to pay homage to him and his iconic character, King T’Challa.
Wakanda forever stars Letitia Wright like Shuri, Lupita Nyong’o like Nakia, Danai Gurira like Okoye, Winston Duke like M’Baku Dominic Thorne like Riri Williams/Ironheart, Florence Kasumba like ayo, Mikaela Coel like aneka, Angela Bassett like the queen mother of Ramond, Mabel Cadena like Namora, Alex Livinalli like Attuma, Martin Freeman like Everett Ross, and Tenoch Huerta Mejia as the villain Namor. You can watch our interview with Kugler here and follow Collider for updates.
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