Box-Office Weekend: Black Panther Crosses $600 Million
Since its release five weeks ago, Disney and Marvel’s Black Panther has dominated the box office. Unsurprisingly, it finished atop the weekend box-office once again, bringing in $27 million over the weekend. This brought its cumulative domestic total over $600 million, making it the first film since Avatar (2009) to do so.
This showing makes Black Panther only the seventh film to gross over $600 million domestically. Also, it now trails Marvel’s The Avengers by less than $20 million to become the highest grossing superhero movie of all time. The Alicia Vikander-starring reboot of the Tomb Raider franchise finished solidly in second place with and opening weekend tally of $23.5 million. The religious-themed I Can Only Imagine delivered a surprise third-place finish with $17.1 in its first weekend of release as well. These new releases dropped A Wrinkle in Time to fourth place where it earned $16.6 million, to bring its two-week total to $61.1 million.
The teen romantic dramedy Love, Simon debuted with $11.5 million this weekend and very positive reviews to suggest that it’s staying-power could lead to a long run at the box office. Game Night fell from fifth to sixth with $5.6 million over the weekend, to raise it four-week total to $54.2 million as it begins what will presumably be its exit from the top ten in the very near future. The family-friendly Peter Rabbit added $5.2 million over the weekend to brings its six-week total to $102.4 million.
Elsewhere, the horror film The Strangers: Prey at Night fell to eighth place this weekend earning just $4.8 million, bringing its two-week total to $18.6 million as it looks poised to leave the top ten this coming weekend given its precipitous drop. Red Sparrow continues to do middling business with $4.5 million over the weekend, to raise its, we assume, disappointing three-week total to $39.6 million. Also, despite, falling from the top ten this weekend, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle brought in $3.4 million which allowed it to cross $400 million domestically, making it Sony’s second highest grossing release, just $3.4 million behind, Spider-Man (2002)
Finally, Bruce Willis and Death Wish finished in the tenth spot with $3.4 million. This gives the remake of the Charles Bronson exploitation film a three-week total of $29.9 million as it takes a final bow before presumably exiting the top ten.
Next weekend sees the release of Pacific Rim Uprising and Isle of Dogs, which will surely shake things up at the weekend box-office yet again.
Weekend Box Office (March 16th – March 18th)
- Black Panther…$27 Million
- Tomb Raider…$23.5 Million
- I Can Only Imagine…$17.1 Million
- A Wrinkle in Time…$16.6 Million
- Love, Simon…$11.5 Million
- Game Night…$5.6 Million
- Peter Rabbit…$5.2 Million
- The Strangers: Prey at Night…$4.8 Million
- Red Sparrow…$4.5 Million
- Death Wish…$3.4 Million
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