Black Panther wins 5th weekend domestically, Tomb Raider earns $84.5M overseas
Marvel Studios‘ Black Panther took the top spot at the domestic box office for the fifth straight weekend, an achievement last reached by Avatar in 2009 and before that The Sixth Sense in 1999, making it only the third movie to achieve this in the last 19 years. The film added $27 million to push its North American total passed the $600 million mark with $605.4 million. It is now the No. 7 domestic release of all time. Internationally, Black Panther earned another $30 million to take its overseas total to $577.1 million (with $96 million of that coming from China) and worldwide sum to $1.183 billion, passing both Captain America: Civil War ($1.153 billion) and Minions ($1.159 billion) to become the No. 14 movie of all time globally. The Ryan Coogler-directed film stars Chadwick Boseman, Danai Gurira, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, and Andy Serkis.
Warner Bros. Pictures and MGM’s new video game adaptation, Tomb Raider, opened in second place domestically with $23.5 million from 3,854 theaters, an average of $6,104 per theater. The movie, starring Alicia Vikander as…
