BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER Has A Huge Budget But Should Beat BLACK ADAM's Worldwide Gross In One Weekend

BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER Has A Huge Budget But Should Beat BLACK ADAM's Worldwide Gross In One Weekend

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever's budget has been revealed, but Marvel Studios looks to get quite the return on its investment as the Black Panther sequel should top Black Adam's global haul in one weekend.

By JoshWilding - Nov 09, 2022 07:11 AM EST
Source: Variety

There's a lot of excitement for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, especially after that first wave of glowing reviews for the sequel. We've already told you the movie is eyeing a massive opening weekend, and it's a good job too based on how much it cost to make.

Variety reveals that the Black Panther follow-up has a record-breaking $250 million budget!

While there have been more or equally expensive Marvel Studios blockbusters, including Avengers: Endgame ($400 million) and, believe it or not, Thor: Love and Thunder ($250 million), Black Panther: Wakanda Forever breaks a very different record. It's now the highest-budgeted movie with a Black lead, beating the first Black Panther and movies like Men in Black 3 and Tenet.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever should break a number of other records this weekend too, especially with over $45 million in advance ticket sales. The trade notes that it could earn as much as $200 million this weekend in North America alone, with as much as $195 million overseas without a release in China. 

Even conservative estimates suggest the movie will surpass $350 million at the worldwide box office by Sunday, meaning it will top Black Adam's $330 million haul in one weekend. 

That's a real blow to the DC Comics movie that has major star power in Dwayne Johnson. He's been touting the movie as a major success on social media, but it's doing Shazam! numbers on a budget that was over twice as large (also $250 million, funnily enough). 

There have been rumblings online that a Black Adam sequel has already been written, though we find it hard to believe the new DC Studios heads will be in a rush to move forward with any movie that's likely to disappoint at the box office. As a result, Johnson may find himself having to share the screen with Zachary Levi's Shazam whether he likes it or not. 

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever arrives in theaters this Friday, November 11. 

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n1ghtw1ng2832
n1ghtw1ng2832 - 11/9/2022, 8:00 AM
Why is this even a story? Guess we should expect nothing more from these types of articles.
TheHumanSpider2
TheHumanSpider2 - 11/9/2022, 8:07 AM
@n1ghtw1ng2832 - To show how much of a flop Black Adam is, despite people claiming "is making rock-solid numbers".
TheSuperMex
TheSuperMex - 11/9/2022, 8:44 AM
@n1ghtw1ng2832 - posts like these have been made for years.
mastakilla39
mastakilla39 - 11/9/2022, 8:50 AM
@n1ghtw1ng2832 - it shows the difference between hype with 250 mil vs no hype with 200 mil. black adam should have never been a 200 mil film just like the 1st man of steel because you cant expect a new ip or remake to make 700+ mil to break even
BringFFtoMCU
BringFFtoMCU - 11/9/2022, 9:34 AM
@n1ghtw1ng2832 - Because some idiots really think Black Adam was a hugely successful movie and marks a turning-of-the-tide for DCU, when it fact it's just more mediocre crap from the same subpar studio.

I freaking love this news.
bobevanz
bobevanz - 11/9/2022, 8:03 AM
Don't start posting spoilers in the titles. Wait til at least Sunday you goon
blackiron777
blackiron777 - 11/9/2022, 8:06 AM
here we go with the DC thing. I stand by this site has becoming nothing more than a shill MCU fan boy site.
Urubrodi
Urubrodi - 11/9/2022, 8:09 AM
@blackiron777 - Josh plays both sides. Whenever the next DC project hits he's gonna do the same sort of thing but supporting DC against Marvel. That's how he creates clicks. And also why he has multiple personas (e.g. Hamilton Parker). I mean in the end of the day his strategy does work.
TheHumanSpider2
TheHumanSpider2 - 11/9/2022, 8:07 AM
Yeah, the gigantic budget (thanks in part for all the breaks production had to take because of covid) might be a problem, but this movie is easily breaking even.

About Black Adam, "rock-solid numbers", right?
Origame
Origame - 11/9/2022, 8:08 AM
So speculation is being presented as news while directly instigating competition between DC and marvel.

Again, why is it this site always treats the commenters as the problem when it comes to flame wars when its plagued with articles like this?
BigPhilbowski
BigPhilbowski - 11/9/2022, 8:27 AM
@Origame - ikr. The audacity of comparing the box office numbers of 2 movies in the same genre with the same budget. The horror. Won't someone please think of the children.
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