President’s Day weekend is going to be mighty this year thanks to the release of Disney and Marvel’s Black Panther, which is set to deliver not only the largest February and President’s Day weekend of all-time, but one of the largest opening weekends period.
Meanwhile, Lionsgate will try and find a spot in the top ten with the release of Early Man, the latest stop motion animated pic from Aardman, and Pure Flix will target the faith-based demographic with the moderately-sized release of Samson.
But all-in-all, the weekend will be about Black Panther and just how high its opening can go.
Debuting in over 4,000 theaters, Disney and Marvel’s Black Panther certainly takes advantage of being the latest installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — 18th to be exact — but it has already proven to be more than just another superhero movie.
The cultural significance of the reportedly $200 million production has
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