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"Black Panther."
- By Saturday night, "Black Panther" will become the highest-grossing superhero movie of all-time at the domestic box office.
- It will have surpassed previous record-holder, 2012's "The Avengers" ($623.2 million).
- However, counting inflation, "The Avengers" still is the top superhero movie with a domestic gross of over $700 million.
By Saturday night, "Black Panther" will be the highest-grossing superhero movie of all-time at the domestic box office, with an estimated total of over $630.5 million by the time the weekend's over. It surpasses the previous title holder, 2012's "The Avenger" ($623.2 million).
The incredible feat by the movie is even more astounding by the fact that it was done in only 36 days.
And with a $1.2 billion worldwide gross, the movie is inching closer to the top 10 all-time (currently sitting in 14th place just behind "Iron Man 3" with $1.214 billion).
Now, none of this is counting inflation. When going down that road, "Black Panther" still has a little more work to do.
The Disney/Marvel box-office sensation will likely finally lose its number one spot at the domestic box office to newcomer "Pacific Rim: Uprising."
And "Black Panther" is in fourth place for all-time superhero domestic grosses - behind 2002's "Spider-Man" ($637.8 million), 2008's "The Dark Knight" ($683.5 million), and "The Avengers" ($705.7 million).
Nice company to be in, and with the movie still having a month (maybe two) in theaters, who knows where it will end up on this list of titans.
More "Black Panther":
- MoviePass says it has bought over 1 million tickets for Marvel's "Black Panther"
- A box-office analyst predicted "Black Panther" would make more money than "The Last Jedi" in China, and its opening day proved it will do just that
- The star of "Black Panther" revealed that Denzel Washington paid for his college acting classes - and he finally got to thank the veteran actor