{"id":60489,"date":"2018-03-12T05:48:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T05:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=60489"},"modified":"2018-03-12T05:48:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T05:48:19","slug":"china-box-office-black-panther-roars-with-67m-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/movies\/china-box-office-black-panther-roars-with-67m-opening.html","title":{"rendered":"China Box Office: ‘Black Panther’ Roars With $67M Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"

China Box Office: ‘Black Panther’ Roars With $67M Opening<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Ryan Coogler’s global monster hit is the fifth biggest debut ever for a superhero title in the world’s second-biggest movie market.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther has completed the final leg of its global victory tour with a heroic opening weekend in China.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Marvel Disney tentpole pulled in $66.5 million from Friday to Sunday, the market’s fifth biggest debut ever for a superhero title, according to Disney data. Throughout the weekend, Panther commanded an impressive 55 percent market share.<\/span><\/p>\n

The powerful China performance puts a final nail in the coffin for the pernicious myth that movies led by all-black casts can’t perform well internationally, particularly in East Asia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Marvel tentpoles have consistently done big business in the Middle Kingdom but Black Panther’s $66.5 million opening haul far exceeded similar character-launch titles, including Guardians of the Galaxy ($30 million), Ant-Man ($42.8 million) and Doctor Strange ($43.6 million). It also beat all of the Thor films and each of the Captain America movies except for Civil War ($93.6 million).<\/span><\/p>\n

Sometime later this week, it will cruise past $100 million, the usual marker of undisputed success for a Marvel movie in the market. The strong China tally also helped Panther gain entry to an elite club of just 33 titles to have earned more than $1 billion globally. As Sunday came to a close, the film had earned $562 million domestically and $516.6 million internationally.<\/span><\/p>\n

Entering Panther’s wake, Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water is set to kick off a post-Oscar run at the Chinese market on Friday. Last year, Damien Chazelle’s La La Land rode its Oscar attention to a healthy $35.9 million total in China, despite the past poor performance of musicals in the market.<\/span><\/p>\n

Panther could face a more formidable challenge from Warner Bros.’ Tomb Raider, also opening Friday. The Angelina Jolie Tomb Raider movies came long before China’s box-office boom and never scored a release there. But Resident Evil, also a female-led video game adaptation franchise, has been a major fan favorite. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter opened to an enormous $94 million last year and finished at $159.5 million. Oddly enough, there are also impressive local precedents for movies about tomb raiding, such as Wanda Film’s Mojin: The Lost Legend, which earned $255 million in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/china-box-office-black-panther-roars-67m-opening-1093677<\/span><\/p>\n

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