{"id":928,"date":"2022-11-27T22:33:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T03:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/dragon-chronicle\/?p=928"},"modified":"2022-11-28T10:38:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T15:38:57","slug":"black-panther-wakanda-forever-dominates-the-box-office-thanksgiving-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/dragon-chronicle\/2022\/11\/27\/black-panther-wakanda-forever-dominates-the-box-office-thanksgiving-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Dominates the Box Office Thanksgiving Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s impossible to replace the irreplaceable Chadwick Boseman, but that was Ryan Coogler\u2019s task as the director of the biggest Marvel film of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now in its third weekend since release, Disney\/Marvel\u2019s <em>Black Panther: Wakanda Forever <\/em>is having no trouble staying above the competition at the box office this past Thanksgiving weekend. After bringing in $8.1 million on Thanksgiving Day, the long awaited sequel exploded the following Friday, adding another $18.2 million more in ticket sales to its haul. <em>Wakanda Forever<\/em> is the only resounding box office success this season, on target to push past $350 million gross through the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Now is our time.<br> <br>Marvel Studios\u2019 Black Panther: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WakandaForever?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WakandaForever<\/a>, now playing only in theaters. Get tickets now: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GJSG053Wm1\">https:\/\/t.co\/GJSG053Wm1<\/a><br> <br>\ud83c\udfa8: Olivia Odiwe <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3clV2KPL5f\">pic.twitter.com\/3clV2KPL5f<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Marvel\/status\/1595839716150099968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 24, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Monday, <em>Wakanda Forever<\/em>\u00a0will pass <em>Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore<\/em> to become the No. 7 highest-grossing movie of 2022. It is still eyeing an international finish around $415M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The film is rated over 80% \u201cfresh\u201d on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Critics say the film has an \u201coverly busy\u201d plot, but is a poignant tribute to the late Chadwick Boseman, who portrayed King T&#8217;Challa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coogler, alongside Marvel Studio\u2019s executives, decided not to recast the character of T\u2019Challa. Instead, the film opens with the off-screen death of the character. The story that follows centers on how the characters in the world of Wakanda deal with that loss as well as the encroachment of the rest of the world, which has become aware of the country\u2019s rare and powerful resource \u2013 vibranium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though Several critics called the plot overstuffed, Coogler sought to pay tribute to Boseman and establish the necessary markers for future Marvel projects.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Marvel Studios\u2019 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | Official Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Z3QKkl1WyM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Wakanda Forever&#8221; isn&#8217;t just an exercise in mourning. In 2 hours and 40 minutes, it finds plenty of time for whale riding and fierce combat with all manner of spear handling and epic battle. It is still, in other words, a Marvel movie, though a somber and at times a quite resonant one.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s impossible to replace the irreplaceable Chadwick Boseman, but that was Ryan Coogler\u2019s task as the director of the biggest Marvel film of the year. Now in its third weekend since release, Disney\/Marvel\u2019s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is having no trouble staying above the competition at the box office this past Thanksgiving weekend. 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