Black Panther

Marvel’s blockbuster hit Black Panther continues to amaze with a record-breaking box office run that will in all likelihood see it take the #1 spot at the weekend box office for the fifth consecutive week. Black Panther heads into this weekend with a massive $578 million domestic cume and $1.12 billion worldwide. Those North American receipts make it the second-highest grossing superhero film in domestic history, behind only 2012’s The Avengers. This weekend’s tally […]

Marvel Studios' Black Panther bounded to success at the President's Day box office, notching $242 million domestically over the four-day weekend--the second-highest such opening behind only Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and the biggest ever debut for a black director. In a triumph that could impact onscreen representation, its $184.6 million overseas total disproves a long-held industry myth that films with black casts underperform overseas. The Ryan Coogler-directed action flick beat expectations to score the fifth biggest North American debut of all time. […]

All Marvel Cinematic Universe movies these days are blockbusters, but they don’t usually feel like events. As excited as people may have been for The Avengers or Spider-Man: Homecoming or Thor: Ragnarok, none of those films were preemptively held up as turning points for world cinema. Black Panther, on the other hand, is a landmark: The first superhero movie with an almost entirely black cast, and one that doesn’t shy away from difficult questions about race and […]

After “Black Panther” leaps into multiplexes next week, it will make a star out of the actor playing the king of Wakanda. Chadwick Boseman was cast as Marvel royalty based on his onscreen turns in “42” (as Jackie Robinson) and “Get on Up” (as James Brown). A trained martial artist, Boseman spent at least five hours in the gym each day to bulk up for his Herculean fight scenes. In this week’s cover story, Boseman […]