Disney/Marvel spent $250 million making this movie and another $150 million marketing it. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is off to an as-expected start stateside but is underperforming internationally which is shedding doubt on the film finishing with a billion-dollar box office. The trades had Black Panther: Wakanda Forever opening worldwide to a whopping $365 million start or more, but those estimates have since been revised to around $300-325 million. PLAYLIST 75 VIDEOS: WARNER BROTHERS DISCOVERY & DAVID ZASLAV https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUPkiRW84R1gxDL-u2P1Ac4bE5bONlHix SUBSCRIBE TO ADAM POST SPEAKS: https://www.youtube.com/c/AdamPostSpeaks Follow ADAM POST on Twitter: https://twitter.com/comicswelove ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Billion Dollar Box Office In Doubt: Underperforming Internationally https://cosmicbook.news/black-panther-wakanda-forever-billion-dollar-box-office-doubt-underperforming-internationally PANIC MODE BLACK PANTHER WAKANDA FOREVER Will Not Earn $1 Billion, Disney May Not Break Even On It! Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is off to an as-expected start stateside but is underperforming internationally which is shedding doubt on the film finishing with a billion-dollar box office. The trades had Black Panther: Wakanda Forever opening worldwide to a whopping $365 million start or more, but those estimates have since been revised to around $300-325 million. Deadline points out the flick isn’t doing as well as hoped in the Asia Pacific with particular mention of South Korea, and that a local movie in Japan beat it out. The first film made over $77 million in South Korea but the sequel doesn’t look to be coming anywhere near that number. Adding to that is the fact that Black Panther: Wakanda Forever won’t get released in China, so there is another loss of over $105 million. The film probably also doesn’t have a Ukraine and Russia release, which is also another loss of $20 million, so that is almost $200 million out the door. I believe Disney is editing out the gay parts for the releases in the Middle East, so there won’t be any losses there. The first Black Panther finished with $1.382 billion, so it will be a really, really close call if Wakanda Forever can hit a billion dollars at the box office. black panther wakanda forever namor 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever' Billion Dollar Box Office In Doubt: Underperforming Internationally Black Panther: Wakanda Forever domestic box office on track Regarding the domestic box office, as I said, it doesn’t look to come anywhere near the $200 million or more estimated by some sites (the first opened to $202 million), but more in line with the low-end $175 million. If the sequel can perform as well as the first movie throughout this weekend, it has a great shot of performing even better, but the first movie performed unbelievably well and saw unheard-of dips of only 13.1% on Saturday and 9% on Sunday. Doctor Strange 2 had dips of 36.3% and 32.7%, and Thor: Love and Thunder had dips of 39.5% and 22.8%. I’ll say that this is the first Marvel movie my two sons didn’t want to see. We were supposed to go on Thursday but I canceled my tickets as my older son instead went to a Sabres game with his buddies. My 14-year-old has absolutely no interest in it and cites the 3-hour runtime as way too long and says he finds nothing interesting about the movie. Another friend of mine also canceled his tickets once he found out the movie is 3 hours long, and my normie friends, no one on my personal social media remarked about it or went to see it that I know of. black panther wakanda forever rotten tomatoes score 84 95 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever' Billion Dollar Box Office In Doubt: Underperforming Internationally Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will be heavily front-loaded If I have to guess, I’m guessing Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will be heavily front-loaded and then drop. A billion-dollar box office is in doubt. I will say the fans still like what they are seeing as the Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score is at 95% with over 5000 ratings. The CinemaScore is also an “A.” I also want to add that The Hollywood Reporter is spinning things like the pandemic is to blame for the box office not being as high as they estimated, but that didn’t apply to Spider-Man: No Way Home, so that’s complete BS. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoQrhbtuEBw

Last month, Disney told stockholders the company has “generated a 2.9 times return on the purchase of Lucasfilm.” According to Forbes, that’s a big, fat lie. The idea behind releasing that lie was to prop up Disney CEO Bob Iger, who was facing a stockholder rebellion he eventually won, thanks to lies like this one: [B]uried in the fine print is the revelation that the purchase price of Lucasfilm isn’t even included in the R[eturn] O[n] I[nvestment] calculation. Instead, it is purely based on the box office performance of Disney’s Star Wars trilogy, its two spinoff movies, merchandise, DVD and Blu Ray sales. As revealed, the methodology is questionable as Disney based the ROI on the revenue generated by the movies, merchandise, DVDs and Blu Rays rather than the profit they made as it should have done. Using the revenue rather than the profit artificially inflates the result as it doesn’t factor in the costs that Disney had to pay out. Back in 2012, Disney purchased everything attached to Lucasfilm — Star Wars, Willow, Indiana Jones — for $4.05 billion. Twelve years later… Well, let’s take a look at the lay of the land… After three abysmal sequels, as a film franchise, Star Wars is doornail dead. We were told Disney intended to take the most beloved brand in movie history and Marvel it — meaning, two Star Wars movies a year, baby! That legendary Star Wars universe would be explored up, down, and sideways. Get ready for adventures galore, Star Wars fans! The result? Not a single Star Wars feature since the abysmal Return of Skywalker in 2019. Over and over, we’ve been told a half-dozen Star Wars movies are on the way, only to see them canceled or forgotten. Man alive, even those terrible prequels couldn’t kill Star Wars. But Bob and Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy found a way: Feminize, politicize, scold, lecture, demean, and emasculate classic heroes, take all the fun and joy out of it, message over story… No sex, no glamour, and affirmative action thy name is Rose Tico. EXPLORE MORE College and College Life https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUPkiRW84R1jMYq13CC97tk6V3EsZKICc Bud Light Controversy And Updates https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUPkiRW84R1g5qvJxocNQFy6tsIEAcKh9 Target Controversy Series And Updates https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUPkiRW84R1ggpL0TlEvY5Qg1xChHiMqp SUBSCRIBE TO ADAM POST SPEAKS: https://www.youtube.com/c/AdamPostSpeaks Follow ADAM POST on Twitter: https://twitter.com/comicswelove ADAM POST email: adampostmediagroup@gmail.com ADAM POST twitter: @comicswelove #hollywood #disney #marvel ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMpJfnDvrkM