We don’t know if it’s intended or not, but the day Variety announces that Black Adam will make Warner Bros Discovery lose a few million, Marvel Studios lets us know that his latest film, Black Panther Wakanda Forever, is a big hit. at the box office. With 733 million dollars accumulated worldwide, it ranks as the 7th biggest performance of the year 2022. It is certainly less efficient than the first Black Panther in 2018 at this stage of distribution, but it is already a success. For the US market alone, the latest MCU Phase 4 footage racks up $393 million in less than a month, as much as Black Adam’s global scores in 7 weeks of running. Proof indeed that the last film of the DCU is well planted.
In France, Black Panther Wakanda Forever is also a great success, with more than 3 million admissions, which places it in the Top 5 of the most popular films by French audiences in 2022. Marvel takes the opportunity to release an excerpt from film, when Namor sneaks into Wakanda to show his intentions to Ramonda, the country’s queen. We are also entitled to a making of which shows how Ryan Coogler staged this second episode, tinged with a tribute to Chadwick Boseman.
