The Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Thursday box office is in and it falls short of both the Marvel movies released this year with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse Of Madness and Thor: Love and Thunder.
The Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Thursday box office brought in $28 million.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse Of Madness brought in $36 million for its Thursday previews and went on to open to $187 million.
Thor: Love and Thunder brought in $29 million for its Thursday and went on to open to $144 million.
So as I said, it depends on whether or not the fans think the flick is any good if it will have legs, and so far, it seems the fans like it a lot.
Worth a mention is that the first Black Panther had a Thursday box office of $25.2 million – lower than both DS2 and TL&T – but opened to over $202 million.
Estimates offer Wakanda Forever will open anywhere between $175 million to $200 million, so if Black Panther 2 can keep things up on Friday, Saturday and Sunday like the first movie did (see below) and not drop tremendously like Love and Blunder, things are looking good.
Comparing opening weekends: Doctor Strange 2, Thor 4, Black Panther
For comparison check out how Doctor Strange 2, Thor: Love and Thunder, and Black Panther opened during their respective opening weekends:
Doctor Strange 2
Friday (includes Thursday): $90,720,784
Saturday: $57,806,850 -36.3%
Sunday: $38,893,364 -32.7%
Thor: Love and Thunder:
Friday (includes Thursday): $69,554,073
Saturday: $42,112,494 -39.5%
Sunday: $32,498,540 -22.8%
Black Panther:
Friday (includes Thursday): $75,941,146
Saturday: $65,995,366 -13.1%
Sunday: $60,067,439 -9%
Critics and fans divided over Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Regarding what the fans have to say, the sequel has a 94% Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes, while the critics are thinking a lot differently and give it an 84%, so we see there is a big division between the fans and the critics.
The first Black Panther is just the opposite as the critics’ score is at a massive 96%, while the fans’ audience score is at 79%.
