FRIDAY AFTERNOON: Now we hear that Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is on its way to a $80M+ Friday, for what will be one $170M-$180M opening weekend.
There’s hope the Ryan Coogler-directed-and-written sequel could catch up Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of MadnessOpening at $187.4 million, but it’s too early. Currently in hours, Wakanda forever is catching up Doctor Strange 2 and Thor: Love & Thunder. The sequel does not appear to be front-loaded. If it emulates exactly Doctor Strange 2, it will come in less than that movie. In terms of Wakanda forever falls short Doctor Strange 2 in $8 million previews, sources attribute that to time of year and durations. At the beginning of May, more people were available than in November, plus Doctor Strange 2 ran at 2 hours and 6 minutes while Wakanda forever takes 2 hours and 41 minutes.
With an opening day of $80 million including last night’s $28 million, Wakanda forever is the 13th highest opening day of all time, just below The Avengers’ $80.8 million (May 4, 2012). Get a $170 million – $180 million opening Wakanda forever in the top 17 best US openings at the BO, a series that includes MCU titles such as: Captain America: Civil War ($179.1 million, No. 13) and Iron Man 3 ($174.1 million, No. 16).
In 2nd, the fourth weekend of New Line/DC’s Black Adam is between $7M-$11M in 3,603 theaters, down from 38% to 61% for a Sunday running total between $150M-$154M.
Third belongs to Universal’s fourth weekend of Ticket to paradise at 3,633 looking for a fourth Friday of $2.4 million-9%, and a 3-day $6.9 million-19%, and total of $57.3 million.
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FRIDAY AM: As expected, Disney and Marvel Studios Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is on fire with a $28M Thursday that easily beats the preview night of the first Black Panther in 2018 who did $25.2 million. Wakanda forever ranked as the third best Thursday preview of the year Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ($36 million) and Thor: Love and Thunder‘s ($29 million). General, Black Panther 2Rank ‘s previews as the 15e top preview performance in industry history and gives the Marvel Cinematic Universe six of the top 15 starts ever. The 3-day projection for Wakanda forever is between $175 million and $200 million in 4,936 movie theaters.
Nothing to shiver about here with previews for Wakanda forever be lower than Thor: Love & Thunder which, while panned by critics and earning a B+ CinemaScore, brought in a $144 million opening. Previews’ share of MCU’s opening weekends has been varied. Thor: Love & Thunderhas rehearsed 19% of his 3 days Doctor Strange 2s took over 19% of the $187 million opening, Black PantherThursday was 12% of the opening of $202 million, and Captain Marvels $21 million was 14% of his $153 million 3-day.
Other great boards for the weekend: Wakanda forever represents more than 80% of the online ticket seller’s Veterans Day sales today. Comscore today sees 52% K-12 schools and another 31% colleges. The Marvel Studios title has been their #1 daily ticket seller for the past two weeks. 82% of fans on Fandango buy tickets for Wakanda say it’s their most anticipated movie of the year. We hear that the pre-sale ticket for Wakanda forever were not front-loaded, rather evenly distributed over the weekend. Disney reports that since yesterday, Wakanda forever counted $66 million in presale, which is behind Doctor Strange 2is $85 million, but go ahead Thor: Love & Thunderis $48 million.
Wakanda forever, which began previews at 3 p.m. yesterday, currently has a Rotten Tomatoes audience rating of 94% over the original Black Pantheris 79%. Screen Engine/Comscore audience outputs are even better at 5 stars for general audiences, parents and children under 12. The overall recommendation among the general public is a high 83%. Thursday night’s crowd drew 42% Black, 22% Hispanic and Latino, 20% White and 10% Asian. Thirty-four percent were men over 25 (90% grade), 26% were women over 25 (95% grade), 25% were men under 25 (87%) and 15% were women under 25 (98% grade). Of the children under the age of 12, 61% were boys, 39% were girls.
The critical score for Black Panther 2 has settled on 85% certified fresh, which is below 96% of the first film. It can’t hurt though Wakanda forevermomentum this weekend. It’s going to be a rich one for everyone from theater circuits to Imax.
Among the regular movies in release, New Line/DCs Black Adam closes the third week with $23.7 million and a running total of $142.5 million. Thursday at $950K, was -11% from Wednesday in 3,985 theaters. Universals Ticket to paradise closes the third weekend with $12.1 million, a running total of $50.4 million in 4,066 theaters and a Thursday with $840K, which was 7% off yesterday. crunchy rolls One-piece red film at 2,367 theaters, the first week ends with $11.1 million. Thursday was $320K, down 25%. Paramount’s Smile crossed $100 million this week after a sixth week of $5.3 million, and Thursday of $269,000, -11% from Wednesday. Lionsgate’s Prey for the devil at 2,960 theaters posted a second week of $5.1 million, totaling $15 million and a Thursday of $234K, -16% from Wednesday.
