Black Panther is clearly on a roll at the box office! If you have see the Academy Awards yesterday, you would have heard Jimmy Kimmel joke that when they took a break, Black Panther has earned $48 million in that time. The superhero movie is still ruling the box office, with no huge competitor wanting to challenge it in the race.

As per the latest trade figures, Black Panther has earned more than $900 million at the box office. In North America itself, the movie has grossed $501.7 million, while it has collected $398.3 million in the remaining international territories.

Black Panther is scheduled to release in China this week. China is considered as one of the biggest markets when it comes to earning revenue for the movies (ask Aamir Khan). So trade analysts are predicting a $70 million plus opening for Black Panther in China. This along with the brisk business that the Marvel movie is doing elsewhere, it is a certain that Black Panther will be enter the one billion dollar club by this Sunday.

If it does, it will be the fifth Marvel movie to do so after The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Iron Man 3 and Captain America: Civil War.

Black Panther is directed by Ryan Coogler, and stars Chadwick Boseman in the lead as the King of Wakanda who uses the mantle of Black Panther to protect his kinsmen from the villains. Michael B Jordan and Andy Serkis play the antagonists, while Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett and Forest Whitaker form the supporting cast.

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