Black Panther had the biggest February debut of all time
Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther is expected to gross around $201.7 million in North America this weekend, out-earning 2016’s Deadpool to make it the biggest February debut of all time, according to Box Office Mojo. It’s also expected to have the fifth-highest-grossing opening weekend of all time, and the second largest Marvel debut, behind 2012’s The Avengers. Global opening weekend sales are expected to climb to around $387 million, The New York Times reports.
Directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Chadwick Boseman, Lupita Nyong’o, Michael B. Jordan, Daniel Kaluuya, and others, Black Panther features a majority black cast and is the only Marvel movie so far to be helmed by a black director. It’s also the highest-grossing film in history by…
