Weekend Box Office Update

Hi there Disney friends,

Well it is another weekend that was a great one for the House of Mouse as Black Panther is proving to be very powerful. The film grossed in excess of $65 million. That is the third highest weekend ever recorded for the third weekend for a film. The only two films of grossed more in their third weekend of release is Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Avatar. (If when the numbers come out tomorrow a little higher for Black Panther like it has every week so far, it could surpass Avatar.) To put that in perspective of how big Black Panther is, both of those films 3rd weekends of release were over the January 1st through the 3rd weekends. In other words, those two films had the advantage of having a holiday weekend to do those numbers. The film is also now the third fastest movie to make $500 million behind Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Wars: The Last Jedi. (It is also tied with Jurassic World,) This film is also now the 10th highest grossing film domestically of all time and still has many weeks to go. It is also the second highest grossing film in the Marvel Universe domestically. The film has also made over $900 million worldwide.

Looking ahead, next weekend could be a very interesting weekend for Disney films as the Oprah Winfrey starring film A Wrinkle in Time is released. It will be interesting to see if that film can knock Black Panther out of the number one spot. Another little piece of information that came out this week Disney has chosen to release Avengers: Infinity War a week earlier than planned and will be the last weekend in April not first weekend in May. We will see how beginning the summer a week earlier helps these numbers for this upcoming film. Disney also announced that the live action film version of Mulan will be delayed 2 years into 2020 and Nicole which was to be released this November has been put on hold. The thinking is the last film will be moved to Disney's new streaming service that will be starting up next year.

Thank you for allowing me to share my love for Disney and movies with you. I hope you have a great week.