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The Ryan Coogler-directed Black Panther took in a domestic box office haul of $27 million over the last two days, which was a couple bills more than Tomb Raider's muted $23.5 million from 3,854 theaters across North America.
Overseas, "Black Panther" added an estimated $30 million, bringing its worldwide tally to more than $1.183 billion.
Black Panther is also the #2 MCU movie domestically with $605.4 million and will shortly pass The Avengers ($623.357 million) to become the best-grossing MCU movie of all time in the U.S. That film rang up $47 million over its first domestic weekend and went on to gross $274 million over its worldwide theatrical run.
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Avatar managed to rule the box office charts for seven consecutive weekends upon its release - and it's not totally inconceivable that Black Panther could match, or even surpass, that milestone if a strong interest in the film continues.
Alicia Vikander in a scene from "Tomb Raider" released by Warner Bros Pictures. And its figure is still above both the original long-range and the week-of forecasts (but not the February update on its tracking), per Box Office Pro. The reboot plays as an origin story and teases a follow-up, so it would be rather embarrassing if that promise isn't fulfilled. The film earned $11.5 million from 2,402 theaters, an average of $4,788. However, when an old enemy reappears on the radar, T'Challa's mettle as King and Black Panther is tested when he is drawn into a conflict that puts the entire fate of Wakanda and the world at risk. "I Can Only Imagine" is a song of the band and the the best-selling Christian single of all time. "So it had a really classic playbook for these type of movies".
Rounding out the top five domestically was director Greg Berlanti's Love, Simon, the adaptation of the novel starring Nick Robinson, Josh Duhamel and Jennifer Garner. The film received an A+ CinemaScore. Made for $17 million, Love, Simon received an A+ CinemaScore. The thinking there is that any still-closeted youths would have wanted to avoid assumed speculation and scrutiny. The film has not had much competition as far as new movie releases, though the numbers are still incredible. Final three-day domestic figures will be released Monday.
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