Black Panther: The Road to $1 Billion at the Box Office ($1 billion mark reached)
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Not gonna lie, he had me doubting this with his takes from the screening he allegedly attended.
But, yeah, will never take anything that guys says at face value ever again - what a WUM and BSA.
Interesting, he doesn't post in BP threads at all.
Honestly ? as long as the movie beats TLJ, It'll be ok in my book but I'll go 1.5b too
So Chadwick signed on for five films, right?
Civil War
Black Panther
Infinity War
Avengers 4
And the next one will probably be Black Panther 2, if he doesn't appear in anything else before then.
That's probably five consecutive billion dollar films before he has another chance to negotiate another contract.
I really hope he has it in his contract where he gets a strong percentage of the box office for his solo movies. Otherwise, he's on that rookie salary until he gets to negotiate again and get that Robert Downey Jr payday.
Civil War
Black Panther
Infinity War
Avengers 4
And the next one will probably be Black Panther 2, if he doesn't appear in anything else before then.
That's probably five consecutive billion dollar films before he has another chance to negotiate another contract.
I really hope he has it in his contract where he gets a strong percentage of the box office for his solo movies. Otherwise, he's on that rookie salary until he gets to negotiate again and get that Robert Downey Jr payday.
Nah, they leave room to renegotiate salaries for every film. Nobody really gets stuck working for less than their worth. He probably gets a bump based on milestones or something.
He came in before the reviews dropped and told people not to trust the critics and not to see the film as well. When challenged he claimed word of mouth would kill the film
Had you told me two years ago that the first movie about this virtual unknown named Black Panther would shit on the first live action Justice League movie I would've laughed at you. Incredible.
With that international performance, the final boost will be the markets where still hasnt premiere (china?) and thats it.
1.2B is an excellent ceiling.
If it holds as well as Dead Pool did coming off of its 4th weekend, it will flirt with 700m domestically. It's been holding better than Dead Pool every single day so that suggests $700m domestic is a very likely target.
Coming off of a $56m OS weekend last week, with decent holds, $500m OS - China is a realistic target. Add the $100m from China and a $600m cume OS is pretty much assured.
$1.275 billion seems like the floor. With a better than expected OW multi in China or better overseas holds, $1.35 and Deathly Hallows pt. 2 is probably the ceiling.
Something, something, black doesn't sell.
This movie's success is nothing short of incredible. We can only hope other studios are paying close attention, it breaking 1 billion definitely makes it hard to ignore.
This movie's success is nothing short of incredible. We can only hope other studios are paying close attention, it breaking 1 billion definitely makes it hard to ignore.
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He posts in the BP fuckery threads to parrot/piggyback off of whatever shitty hot take is in the OP but he hasn't posted in a BP thread proper since he got exposed.
It's a dude using a freaking TRUMP avatar. C'mon fam. It smelled like bullshit before, it smelled worse after Black Panther. I didn't believe him for a literal millisecond.
Adjusted for inflation, BP has already earned more domestically than a lot of classic films like Back to the Future, Spider-Man 2 and Lord of the Rings series.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm
super close to beating the last jedi domestically, too
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm
super close to beating the last jedi domestically, too
Congrats to BP! Very well deserved and I hope it's success continues (and Shuri gets an expanded role next time...loved her in the movie).
I hope this means we get more diverse announcements from Marvel for the next slate of movies!
I wonder how much IW will make, it'll be interesting to follow that. :)
I hope this means we get more diverse announcements from Marvel for the next slate of movies!
I wonder how much IW will make, it'll be interesting to follow that. :)
Incredible how well this film has done. I was expecting 600-800 mil.
It's not even that good really. It's fine, but it feels quite by the numbers (I thought the same about Spider Man Homecoming. Fine, but kind of treading water). The last year or so of Marvel films have all felt a little 'safer' with their actual stories.
The last Marvel I truly adored was Doctor Strange. Man I love that film (being a big Cumberbatch fan helps tbf)
It's not even that good really. It's fine, but it feels quite by the numbers (I thought the same about Spider Man Homecoming. Fine, but kind of treading water). The last year or so of Marvel films have all felt a little 'safer' with their actual stories.
The last Marvel I truly adored was Doctor Strange. Man I love that film (being a big Cumberbatch fan helps tbf)
Barring competition in April cutting it's legs more significantly than you would expect, it should clear that amount before it ends its run. Maybe 4 weeks time?
I got the message yeah, I just mean it never *really* felt like there was never that much 'danger'. Same as with Spider Man, I knew the hero would be fine by the end of the film, that the baddie would lose, and that the issues would resolve themselves. Maybe it's just superhero fatigue, but with films like Civil War there were unexpected twists, things that didn't get resolved (Hulk disappeared, Peggy's death, Tony & Cap not making up), and in Doctor Strange the Sorceress Supreme died, Strange and the girl didn't get together. In Spider Man and in BP there weren't many twists, the bad guy lost and it was all fine in the end.
I think we are talking VERY CLOSE to $700m, a little bit less or a little bit over. Black Panther's run will keep going alongside Infinity War in the months to come, and I think that getting on the verge of breaking $700m is feasible, while yet very hard. It's definitely topping Raimi's Spider-Man adjusted, but I do think that it's coming for TDK's 2nd place domestic among the genre. Topping The Avengers might be too hard though.
How? Doctor Strange had some of the greatest action sequence special effects I've ever seen in any film. And the spiritual focus was a breath of fresh air in the MCU
Didn't care about the characters, like at all. The critcism of it essentially being "Iron Man but with magic" is admittedly pretty spot-on. It was a pretty movie, and the way the final villain was taken down was cute, but that's about it.
Also they wasted Mads Mikkelsen.
Black Panther is enjoyable and well made (one of the better ones in the MCU). The handling of the villain is disappointing and after 15+ films some things are routine. Story elements being comparable means a decision and outcome feels familiar. The setting and cast won't prevent that. Not all the film of course as some things were unique because of the story or the execution was well done. There were decent characters, with good actors, big themes explored and handled well. I would have preferred more dialogue and story (the action sequences were ok but nothing amazing - the finale was a let down).
Wiped / Lotus
Dr Strange was shit - there was a handful of cool visual sequences. Benedict Cumberbatch struggling with his American accent is always off putting. Waste of good actors and random jokes when people are being murdered or when the situation is meant to be serious (even by MCU standards, it was out of place).
So for you, a "not-safe" comic book movie is the tired idea that the hero needs to lose and the bad guy needs to win, when in actuality, all of that is superfluous. The themes in BP like isolationism and racial diaspora is pretty risky for a superhero film, and the "danger" isn't about the hero's life, but how his way of life is shaken up.
Hulk left in Age of Ultron, Peggy's death didn't need to be resolved because she died of old age, and Cap's letter was basically a schoolyard apology. Did you leave Civil War believing that Tony and Cap still hated each other?
The mentor figure dying and the main guy and main girl not getting together on-screen is by-the-numbers safe. Star Wars did it in the 70's.
Have we really reached a point where twists and shock value needs to supersede actual execution?
If you watched Vulture and Spidey or T'Challa and Killmonger's scenes and came out of both films disappointed that villain lost and not thinking about how the villains were connected into the hero's lives and forced them to change, then you've missed the point.
Yeah, this is exactly how I felt. Adding to BP, and Homecoming, I thought Ragnarok, and Civil War weren't great either. Strange and Guardians were better, but it seems like as these movies get more popular, they are catering to the masses more than to comic fans.