Marvel’s Black Panther knows the way to smash opening weekend records

Without spoiling the film for you, one of the big debates the Wakandans (the place where the Panther comes from) is whether they should use their riches and technology to help the outside world, particularly other impoverished and oppressed nations.

According to the New York Times, analysts expected Black Panther to earn about $165 million in North America during its opening weekend.

Black Panther’s opening weekend cemented the movie in the record books, not just amongst superhero movies, but in film history. Where I got to finally see the black panther, but I was not alone.

Black Panther is based on a Marvel superhero character of the same name.

That would seem to suggest that Marvel is actively moving forward with a Black Widow movie in the aftermath of 2019’s “Avengers 4”. That’s especially heartening for a movie that prominently features women of color, who are too often left out when progress is made either for women or people of color in general.

Black Panther has been receiving such praise online and has come out to become one of the most successful Marvel movies ever released.

And what could still be for local mentoring groups like “Streets to Success” and “I Am Developing” Company that believe the film is a “must see” for African American youth. “It’s going to provide so many opportunities for other black actors and other black movies”.

As Deadline notes, with an additional $169 million in worldwide tickets sales-despite not opening in China, Japan, or Russia-its total box office take will come in at $361 million, placing it 15th all time for a global opening weekend. Four sequels/reboots and later a standalone superhero film accompanied by an nearly all-black cast. It destroyed Deadpool’s Presidents’ Day weekend record of $152 million. Then again, why not just go with both?

T’Challa haters were online, mostly on Twitter, asking and making comments such as – “Wakanda isn’t real, you know?!”