‘Black Panther’ Dominates Box Office with Over $223 Million Holiday Weekend Haul

Projections suggest that Black Panther will climb even higher than expected at the box office in its opening weekend.

Early projections suggest the film will now earn more than $223 million over the President’s Day weekend, according to Deadline. That surpasses even the most-recent previous projections, which estimated the film would make $210 million.

What we know:

• Black Panther is opening 4,020 location in North America. The film was at first projected to open to a weekend gross of $100-120 million, but the film’s record-setting $25.2 million on Thursday caused projections to soar. After coming in with a total of $76 million on Friday (including Thursday night screening), those projections have risen once again.
• Black Panther‘s $76 million Friday is the eighth-highest opening day in box office history and the third largest opening day ever for a Marvel Studios film.

• Black Panther is on pace to break the President’s Day opening weekend record as well, blowing past the $152 million record previously set by Deadpool in 2016.
• Black Panther is already the highest-grossing film at 33 different AMC Theater locations.
• Black Panther has also done well in overseas markets, earning $80 million since screenings began on Tuesday in the United Kingdom, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and other major markets.
• Black Panther was made with a $200 million budget. Black Panther is the first Marvel movie since The Avengers to receive an A+ CinemaScore.

Black Panther is now in theaters. It will be followed by Avengers: Infinity War on May 4th, Ant-Man and the Wasp on July 6th, Captain Marvel on March 8, 2019, the fourth Avengers movie on May 3, 2019, the sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming on July 5, 2019, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3in 2020.