re: Avengers infinity war box office predictions

500 million domestic
1.1 worldwide

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It's breaking records because of two things: black people will show up en masse to vote for other black people and to watch black movies/movie stars, regardless of how good or deserving those things are. Go to a Denzel or Tyler Perry movie and black people jam pack those theaters.

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Zero Tyler Perry movies have made over $100m at the domestic box office and just 5 Denzel Washington movies in his entire career have gone over $100m domestically.

Black Panther is currently at $674m and made $5m in it's 9th weekend. That's nearly half of what Denzel's last movie Roman J Israel made at just $11.9m.

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The other reason is because they had Black Panther being an absolutely badass in Civil War. When we walked out of that movie, my immediate takeaway was that I couldn't wait for the BP movie to come out.

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To be fair, what Marvel hero isn't a badass? Even Paul Rudd of all people was ripped as hell and rocked parkour skills in Ant-Man.

The biggest difference w/BP and most other Marvel heroes is he got to have an intro in CA:CW instead of being introduced in an origin movie that nobody knew much beyond it being in the MCU.

On top of the character getting a good intro, Black Panther the film is visually very different than pretty much everything out there right now. It's much more interesting to look at that most other blockbusters. It also has several strong female characters who were more than the typical T&A damsels you tend to get in action movies. Yes, black people turned out at a higher clip than they tend to for other MCU movies but so did women and just about everyone else for that matter. It's a well liked movie across all demos.