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Box-Office Weekend: Black Panther Wins Easily

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

With an estimated $192 million for the three-day weekend, the latest entry to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), Black Panther, easily topped the weekend box office finishing nearly $175 million ahead of the film in second place. This tremendous holiday showing also makes director Ryan Coogler’s super hero epic the second-largest opening in the MCU to date (trailing only the $207.4 million brought in by Josh Whedon’s The Avengers).

The animated Peter Rabbit finished in a distant second place with $17.3 million, giving that film a two-week total of $48.2 million). Fifty Shades Freed fell from first to third, earning $16.9 million, which is approximately $60 million less than it made it its initial elongated week of release. Elsewhere, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle held onto fourth place for a second straight week adding $7.9 million to raise its nine-week total to $377.6 million.

Last week’s third-place finisher, The 15:17 to Paris, dropped all the way to the fifth spot, but still brought in $7.7 million. Similarly, The Greatest Showman, dropped from fifth to sixth, but did successfully raise its nine-week total to $154.5 million with $5.1 million this past weekend. The week’s other notable new release, Early Man, managed to lure enough filmgoers to earn $3.2 million, landing it in a decidedly disappointing seventh place. Maze Runner: The Death Cure meanwhile fell down the list as well in its fourth week of release with a $2.5 million weekend. The horror film Winchester, managed to illicit enough scares to bring in $2.2 million to give it a three-week total of $21.9 million, before more than likely, leaving the top ten next week.

Finally, the week’s third new release, Samson, finished in the tenth spot with $2 million. With Monday’s holiday, the overall weekend totals should climb even higher for Black Panther and possibly for a few of the other films currently in the top ten. Next week, expect the box office to shake up yet again as the comedy mystery Game Night opens against the Sci-Fi horror film Annihilation.

Weekend Box Office (February 16th – February 18th)

  1. Black Panther…$192 Million
  2. Peter Rabbit…$17.3 Million
  3. Fifty Shades Freed…$16.9 Million
  4. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle…$7.9 Million
  5. The 15:17 to Paris…$7.7 Million
  6. The Greatest Showman…$5.1 Million
  7. Early Man…$3.2 Million
  8. Maze Runner: The Death Cure…$2.5 Million
  9. Winchester…$2.2 Million
  10. Samson…$2 Million

Mike Tyrkus

Editor in Chief at CinemaNerdz.com
An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.

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