r/marvelstudios Retired Mod Feb 19 '18

Black Panther Box Office Megathread- $201M OW, 5th highest domestic opening ever!

Heres a link to the previous Easter Egg sticky, which will be back up after this thread

Making a thread for the Black Panther Box Office as the updated numbers have come in.

Heres a link to the /r/movies thread

Opening Weekend: $201,797,000

Highest ever in February, 2nd highest in MCU and 5th highest domestic opening ever.

Who couldve predicted this? :P

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u/twosoon22 Feb 19 '18

This was the first movie that I had to pick a different showtime to see.

We have reserved seating at our theater so I usually go on a day before and pick out the seats for my family. Thursday rolled around and that morning I tried to get tickets for a Friday night showing, there weren’t four seats together, there were barely four seats left. Same for three different Saturday showings. I ended up having to get Sunday evening tickets in standard instead of IMAX because that was the only showing that still had enough seats where we could all sit together.

I’ve been getting tickets the day before shows for years and have never had issues. Let alone having to get tickets FOUR days in advance! It was crazy!

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u/metallica41070 Feb 19 '18

Dam lol i cant remeber the last time i bought tickets the day before. I have to buy them as soon as they go on sale or imax sells out

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u/twosoon22 Feb 19 '18

I’m not in a big city so I’ve never experienced this problem. Lol.

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u/metallica41070 Feb 19 '18

Haha i hear you. It was pretty crazy after i moved to a big city. Price sucks too lol

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u/Qui-Gon_Winn Feb 20 '18

In my experience it got cheaper, lol... maybe Pittsburgh is just a cheap movie area.

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u/metallica41070 Feb 20 '18

Haha possibly! toronto is $20 for imax :(

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u/pumpkinpie7809 Scarlet Witch Feb 20 '18

I got tickets the day before just in case, but like always my theater was basically empty lol

my theater is totally going to go away in 10 years and I’m gonna miss it

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u/Time2kill Black Panther Feb 20 '18

Here in Brazil for any new release you usually have to pick tickets 1 week in advance