We’re not even halfway through the year yet and already, we’ve seen three movies enter the domestic top thirty for all-time opening weekends. Two of which, might we add, actually eclipsed the $200 million-plus milestone.
Unsurprisingly, the films in question all came from the superhero genre. Deadpool 2 ($125M) fell just short of setting the opening weekend record for an R-rated pic, which is held by its predecessor with $132 million. Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther ($202M), meanwhile, easily entered the top ten, earning the all-time biggest opening weekend haul for February. And while there’s no denying the impressiveness of T’Challa’s debut, it still pales in comparison to what Avengers: Infinity War did.
The Anthony and Joe Russo-directed blockbuster grossed an unprecedented $250 million-plus stateside, earning it the distinction of being the record holder for the largest opening weekend of all time domestically ($257M). It seems as...
Unsurprisingly, the films in question all came from the superhero genre. Deadpool 2 ($125M) fell just short of setting the opening weekend record for an R-rated pic, which is held by its predecessor with $132 million. Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther ($202M), meanwhile, easily entered the top ten, earning the all-time biggest opening weekend haul for February. And while there’s no denying the impressiveness of T’Challa’s debut, it still pales in comparison to what Avengers: Infinity War did.
The Anthony and Joe Russo-directed blockbuster grossed an unprecedented $250 million-plus stateside, earning it the distinction of being the record holder for the largest opening weekend of all time domestically ($257M). It seems as...
- 5/27/2018
- by Matt Joseph
- We Got This Covered
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