Edited: BP Reaches $1.324 Billion Worldwide
Not really anything landmark but a few Box Office pundits opined or forecasted that BP should reach or top out at that amount, (Scott Mendelson?).
At a glance, Black Panther will be thrilled to earn another $4 million in weekend ten, which would be a 30% drop and a new domestic total of around $680m. That's absurdly good, and it still points toward a domestic finish of approximately $689m. That's big enough to get past the inflation-adjusted totals of The Dark Knight and Thunderball, putting it in 30th place on that particular list. But, since Avatar earned $16.2m in its tenth weekend (-31%) and had $687.9m by the end of its 66th day, Bllack Panther will end the weekend as merely the third-fastest grossing movie (sans inflation) of all time. Yeah, I know, I'm sure everyone is really sad about that.What is interesting is that the International numbers continue to trickle in which is what is surprising. Some have said that BP is weak (yes, as compared to other films grossing +1 Billion WW) but that really is due to BP having such strong domestic numbers. The split between D/I is still going to be about 52/48.
The reason I'm bringing this up, aside from the fact that I enjoy running these numbers and it's a part of my job, is that there was a lot of talk about how Black Panther might have legged it past Avatar with a longer run in theaters. Simply put, that isn't the case. Now if it plays like The Force Awakens from here on out, a film that by the way had fewer theaters in weekend nine (1,810) than Black Panther (2,180), it'll slowly lose screens and essentially remain in some form of domestic theatrical exhibition (including second-run theaters) for the next four months. The Force Awakens stuck around until weekend 24, but it had earned 99% of its business by the end of weekend 12. For reference, fellow Presidents Day blockbuster Deadpool got 18 weekends in theaters two years ago and earned 99% of its domestic gross by the end of weekend ten.
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