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'Black Panther' breaks 'Titanic' box office record

Marvel's recent venture still falls behind 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' and 'Avatar'

Ians April 09, 2018

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LOS ANGELES: Ryan Coogler's Black Panther surpassed the collections of James Cameron's gigantic 1997 Titanic to rank as the third top-grossing title of all time at the US box office.

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Black Panther, featuring an all-black cast, falls behind Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($936.7 million) and Avatar ($760.5 million), with a domestic total of $659.3 million till Friday, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Titanic had finished at $659.5 million when it released in late 1997.

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Globally, Black Panther has grossed $1.29 billion, ranking as the No 10 title of all time.

The Disney and Marvel superhero film stars Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa/Black Panther alongside Lupita Nyong'o, Michael B. Jordan, Danai Gurira, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker and Andy Serkis.

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The story, described as a tale of black power and black pride in addition to its superhero themes, follows T'Challa as he is sworn in as king of Wakanda, a cloaked, technologically advanced nation in Africa that is home to the exotic metal vibranium, the source of Black Panther's powers.

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Danchanma | 6 years ago | Reply Black Panther does not feature an all black cast and is that pointed out if a person of color is not casted in a movie? Wow. Thank God America isn’t like you. It shows by the numbers. My son who has a white father left out of the movie saying his dad is the Black Panther. Why can’t adults see people and not color?

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