BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER Passes $800 Million At The Worldwide Box Office Over Christmas

BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER Passes $800 Million At The Worldwide Box Office Over Christmas

There was good news for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever on Christmas Day as the Marvel Studios sequel has topped the $800 million mark worldwide! Read on for details about that and Avatar: The Way of Water.

By JoshWilding - Dec 27, 2022 04:12 AM EST
Source: Deadline

Christmas is always a surprisingly busy time for the box office, and while 2022 is down on 2021 (Avatar: The Way of Water is clearly no match for Spider-Man: No Way Home), Black Panther: Wakanda Forever hit a big benchmark on Christmas Day.

According to Deadline, the Marvel Studios sequel hit $799.5 million on Sunday, meaning that, by the time you read this (and we're still waiting on updated figures delayed due to the holidays), the Black Panther follow-up will have hit $800 million. That's made up of $425.7 million from North America and $373.8 million from overseas. 

Like most Hollywood blockbusters in recent years, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever wasn't released in China. That's likely to ruin its chances of hitting $1 billion, but the sequel is still an undeniable hit. If 2022 has taught us anything, it's that the pandemic means a blockbuster sailing past that highly sought-after figure is no longer as easy as it once was. 

It's worth noting that Disney has held off on releasing the movie on Disney+, lengthening what's become a standard 45-day theatrical window. That's clearly paid off, though we know Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will hit the platform early next year. 

In other box office news, Christmas Day saw Avatar: The Way of Water top $855.4 million worldwide. As of right now, the movie doesn't appear to be performing as well as its predecessor, so it's going to be very interesting in the weeks to come to see whether it's able to get anywhere close to $2 billion.

After all, director James Cameron has previously said that's a number it has to hit in order to be deemed profitable! 

Theaters definitely had some competition from streaming over the holidays, anyway, with Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery drawing a lot of attention after hitting Netflix on December 23. Disney Animation's Strange World also premiered on Disney+, while we're sure Top Gun: Maverick received a lot of love over on Paramount+.

What did you guys watch over the festive period?

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FireandBlood
FireandBlood - 12/27/2022, 4:57 AM
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 12/27/2022, 5:02 AM
@PlusUltra - Hadoken!
EgoEgor
EgoEgor - 12/27/2022, 6:58 AM
@PlusUltra - Kamehameha!
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 12/27/2022, 5:00 AM
That's an edible amount of dough for a pandemic movie.
marvel72
marvel72 - 12/27/2022, 7:47 AM
@ObserverIO - Pandemic movie? The world is pretty much back to normal. I can see the snow hurting the box office in America but pandemic.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 12/27/2022, 7:58 AM
@marvel72 - Well... that's not entirely true.

There are still a lot of deaths in most of the world. They're just not reported so much anymore, because so many corporate interests are anti-lockdown.

But a death in China? Breaking World News, lol.

(and who do you think is secretly engineering all those anti-lockdown protests in China right now?)

Covid's still here and it's gonna be joined by a much deadlier mutant strain at some point. There are some worrying strains in Australia and France. There are also some strains of Influenza that are currently being engineered. I mean, that are currently mutating. Lol, did I say "engineered"? My bad.
TyrantBossMedia
TyrantBossMedia - 12/27/2022, 9:03 AM
@marvel72 - That’s their excuse now for any Marvel movie that underperforms.

Spider-Man NWH was closer to a “pandemic movie” and it made well over $1 billion.
But it was a 75/25 Sony movie.
It wasn’t laden with the new Marvel wokeness and virtue signaling.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 12/27/2022, 9:08 AM
@TyrantBossMedia - Hey, what happened to you yesterday? Your comments disappeared.
TyrantBossMedia
TyrantBossMedia - 12/27/2022, 10:50 AM
@ObserverIO - I have no idea. This site has been quirky lately. I have seen others comments disappear as well.
marvel72
marvel72 - 12/28/2022, 8:11 PM
@ObserverIO - They're not reported at all in the UK,well I haven't seen any. We are pretty much learning to live with it, just going about our day to day life's.
marvel72
marvel72 - 12/28/2022, 8:12 PM
@TyrantBossMedia - And that's why I enjoyed it so much.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 12/29/2022, 3:59 AM
@marvel72 - According to the Worldometer, there are an average of 60-100 people dying of Covid every day in the UK (or at least people dying within 28 days of contracting covid, so it could be from a cancer that has suddenly worsened or a heart attack, which isn't technically covid but I'm sure having covid doesn't help and they probably wouldn't have died if they didn't contract it).

Even Worldometer don't report deaths every day, anymore. They only report one day every week. And they're likely to choose the day with the least amount of deaths (which is usually either Sunday or Monday due to not every death being reported).
Conquistador
Conquistador - 12/27/2022, 5:02 AM
Not bad. Meanwhile Avatar 2 is already close to 900mil. Prob get there before the weekend.

They both still have a good few weekends ahead of them.
Taonrey
Taonrey - 12/27/2022, 5:12 AM
@UniqNo - I wonder how much both make pre/pandemic, weirdly I think black panther does similar maybe close to $1b I think not having Chadwick hurts it regardless
TheOtherOn
TheOtherOn - 12/27/2022, 5:17 AM
Thor L&T Worldwide: $761 Millions
Black Panther 2: $800 Millions and counting...

Proof that you can slap Marvel sticker or crap and common folks will still eat it like cake and demand more!

Sheeple!


Disney: On it!


Sheeple!

bobevanz
bobevanz - 12/27/2022, 5:25 AM
@TheOtherOn - it's true, they've Pavlov'ed us with that bell so many times that people are afraid to miss out. Although more people are starting to see behind the curtain
EgoEgor
EgoEgor - 12/27/2022, 7:03 AM
@TheOtherOn - Thor 4 is IMHO the worst mcu movie, especially with how much potential a Gorr or Mighty Thor film might have been. Atleast black panther 2 goes to the dramatic places and doesn't undermine them with a bad joke literally the next scene, it actually tries to make you feel something unlike Thor 4. Thor 4 really wasted 2 of his best story lines in recent memory, along with a Christian [frick]ing Bale.
TheFinestSmack
TheFinestSmack - 12/27/2022, 9:44 AM
@TheOtherOn @bobevanz - The Marvel spell on me had been broken a few years ago. I used to take days off work to go see a Marvel movie the day it came out. Now I can't be bothered with any of it. Eventually you just start to realize that the heavy time investment in these stories just isn't worth it. Not when you walk away feeling like these movies will never again be as good as they once were.
bobevanz
bobevanz - 12/27/2022, 5:26 AM
They're barely breaking even on phase four, this is why Iger is back lol
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 12/27/2022, 5:54 AM
One minute “it’s not a billion, it’s crap” next minute “it’s still pretty high. For crap that is”
One would think it’s you people that are full of crap.
“YOU PEOPLE?!”
GeneralZod
GeneralZod - 12/27/2022, 5:54 AM
"If 2022 has taught us anything, it's that the pandemic means a blockbuster sailing past [$1 billion] is no longer as easy as it once was."

Really Josh? Could it be that you're in denial that Black Panther 2 was just an OK movie that was hyped to hell? If the last 12 months have taught us anything, it's that audiences are hungry for really good movies at the theater (No Way Home at $1.9 billion and Top Gun 2 at $1.5 billion).
Mugens
Mugens - 12/27/2022, 6:00 AM
@GeneralZod - If "No Way Home" or "Top Gun 2" got a China release, then your premise is wrong. If they didn't then you may have something except that BP 2 was better than just an ok movie, and all the movies have been equally hyped to hell as you say...
GeneralZod
GeneralZod - 12/27/2022, 7:28 AM
@Mugens - Neither NWH nor TG2 got a China release. So their numbers are really, really good -- basically double what BP2 has done. If BP2 was better than Ok, it would have easily crossed $1 billion. To claim as Josh does that post-pandemic viewing habits has made crossing $1 billion in global box office revenue difficult is just not true.
Conquistador
Conquistador - 12/27/2022, 6:03 AM
While I think it's the best phase 4 has had to offer (Though Ms Marvel is a fav of mine as the actress was super likeable) I think the comic book movie trend is on its way out, at least to the over saturated standard Post 2008.

The pandemic has certainly helped that shift, but I think people's taste are changing. Not sure how well that fares for the new and developing DCU but I certainly see things slowing down in the next few years and alot more shifts to more original projects. Not all bad.



Taonrey
Taonrey - 12/27/2022, 6:29 AM
@UniqNo - I think it’s a little too late for DC
WakandanQueen
WakandanQueen - 12/27/2022, 6:27 AM
Might be its last milestone, unless it gets to $450m domestic, which is likely to happen, especially if it's not on Disney+ til February. WW it's probably coming for ~$830m.

Will be very interesting to see how Phase Five movies do. I think WF's domestic total may remain unchallenged for #2 in the Multiverse Saga for some time.
blitzburgh
blitzburgh - 12/27/2022, 9:14 PM
@TheBlueMorpho - she is always wrong and I think she is a racist because she always has comments about Black Panther
IronMan616
IronMan616 - 12/27/2022, 6:38 AM
Funny how at first this article has all sorts excuses for Black panther 2, "pandemic" as if we're still in one, no China, as if Top Gun Maverick needed China, not making anywhere near the first one, barely getting to 800 mil

Then you read about Avatar and all of s sudden you don't hear about this pandemic, you don't hear the excuses you hear how this one supposedly isn't as successful as the first. The cult like favoritism towards the MCU is laughable.
TheBlueMorpho
TheBlueMorpho - 12/27/2022, 6:45 AM
DrReedRichards - 11/8/2022, 7:08 PM
"Had it not been for Avatar, probably. But that one is
gonna chop a big chunk of its legs. I see high 800 / low 900 mil."


DrReedRichards - 11/9/2022, 5:42 AM
"Put me between 875 and 925."

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