Weekend Box Office: ‘Black Panther’ Passes $500 Million Domestically

In its third frame, Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther is now estimated to blow past the $500 million mark domestically after taking in another $65.7 million over the weekend.

That would make Marvel’s latest only the second movie to cross that line after The Avengers, and it did it a week earlier than the Joss Whedon-helmed epic.

Avengers ended its run at $623 million domestically and $1.5 billion globally and thought Coogler’s film has a ways to go to top those numbers, it’s now looking more and more likely that it will indeed become …

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