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Marvel’s “Black Panther” passes the $1 billion mark at the global box office in just 26 days.
According to Varitey, the Marvel film was helped over the weekend by a Friday opening in China where it earned about $20 million.
Review
Many fans think Black Panther was overdue for a stand-alone feature — but then, it took a long time for him to get his stand-alone comic. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1966, following the most momentous civil-rights battles, Black Panther made his debut in an issue of Fantastic Four , moved on to The Avengers , and occupied a lot of real estate in the — wince — Jungle Action series, the title of which carried overtones of Tarzan, before appearing in many of his own comics under the title Black Panther . Maybe it was worth the wait to get the character right onscreen. For one thing, Coogler hasn’t explicitly connected him to the tiring Marvel superhero stable. (Yes, Agent Everett K. Ross is in the film, but it doesn’t refer to other Marvel figures. And of course there’s a tie-in after all the credits have rolled, but this is a long movie, multiplex sodas are huge, and you should go ahead and use the restroom and not think you’re missing anything super important.)
Better, the filmmakers have surrounded Black Panther with women who are not just worthy of him but frequently leave him in the dust. Nyong’o’s flame-haired Nakia is one, but your gaze will be drawn (or commanded) by Danai Gurira’s General Okoye, another “Grace Jones–lookin’ chick” (tall, bald) with open contempt for guns and a samurai’s dexterity with a long spear. Men quail before her. Black Panther gives her a wide berth. Everything in her affect says “uncontainable.” T’Challa’s giddy kid sister, Shuri (Letitia Wright), is an even more fun inversion of male superhero protocol, playing Q to Black Panther’s Bond with an array of Vibranium-powered suits and gizmos. The mix of Afrocentrism, feminism, and high-tech gadgetry is irresistible.
Black Panther’s team is so wonderful that I hate to think of it being dulled by the mostly white-bread Avengers.
Only four other Marvel films have passed this $1Billion mark: "The Avengers," "Avengers: Age of Ultron,"
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