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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is on track to earn the second-highest box office total in Phase 4 for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Phase 4, which runs from the Disney+ series Wanda Vision at the beginning of 2021 through the end of this year, concludes with the movie, which is a direct sequel to the 2018 picture Black Panther. Following the loss of T'Challa, in Wakanda Forever, which pays tribute to actor Chadwick Boseman, the leaders of Wakanda struggle to maintain equilibrium as new foes, commanded by the mutant Namor (Tenoch Huerta Mejia), emerge from the depths of the sea.
Deadline reports that Black Panther: Wakanda Forever's box office performance is holding steady. The movie debuted on November 11 and has held the top spot at the box office for four weeks in a row. This weekend, it made roughly $16 million, bringing its total domestic earnings up to $392 million by this Sunday. Sam Raimi's Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the highest-grossing MCU movie this year, has already dropped to number 2 by its fourth weekend with a total gross of $374.7 million, even with the Memorial Day break. This maintains its streak of surpassing that movie.
With a domestic total of $411.3 million, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever has a good chance of surpassing Doctor Strange and being the highest-grossing MCU movie of 2022. Additionally, it will surpass Spider-Man: No Way Home, which debuted in December 2021, to become the second highest-grossing Phase 4 title overall. That movie brought together Spider-Man heroes and villains from three separate realms made $814 million in the United States and rose to the third-highest domestic box office position of all time. Wakanda Forever is not expected to surpass that record.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is doing very well for a Phase 4 project, but it still has a way to go before it can compete with the original 2018 Black Panther. The enormous gross for the movie was $700 million domestically, contributing to a global total of $1.35 billion. Wakanda Forever's global box office performance was helped by the fact that it debuted in China, where a Marvel movie hasn't been seen since 2019; nonetheless, it still falls short of the original's domestic haul.
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever has significantly lagged behind the first Black Panther, which had already made $561.7 million at this point in its theatrical run. The volatile box office during the pandemic period may be partially blamed for this, but it still seems improbable that the sequel will be able to outperform the original in any manner, shape, or form. The movie hasn't suffered critically, either, since it has an 84% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and is just slightly below Black Panther's 96% Fresh rating.
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