Black Panther Has Biggest Opening Day of 2018 At UK Box Office

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Black Panther Scores Biggest Opening Day of 2018 At UK Box Office

By Liam Nolan

Published Feb 15, 2018

Black Panther earned the biggest opening day at the 2018 box-office in the United Kingdom, and surpassed Thor: Ragnarok and Deadpool.

Marvel's Black Panther has posted the biggest opening day at the 2018 box-office in the United Kingdom, earning $3.76 million.

The latest in the Marvel Cinematic Universe opened Tuesday in the U.K., just ahead of its wide release on Friday in the United States. Black Panther has already beaten out fellow superhero films Thor: Ragnarok ($3.0 million) and Deadpool ($3.23 million) in the U.K. market. Whether Ryan Coogler's film will be able to unseat Avengers: Age of Ultron, which holds the U.K. record for the biggest opening weekend of a Marvel Studios release, remains to be seen. That 2015 movie earned more than $25.23 million there in its opening weekend, including previews.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens holds the record for biggest opening box-office day in the U.K, with $13.62 million.

Black Panther is proving a massive critical success and is already certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with a rating of 97 percent. The movie is also projected to be a huge commercial hit, with the anticipated domestic opening of $165 million projected earlier this week now climbing toward $180 million.

Directed by Ryan Coogler from a script he wrote with Joe Robert Cole, Black Panther stars Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa, Michael B. Jordan as Erik Killmonger, Lupita Nyong’o as Nakia, Daniel Kaluuya as W’Kabi, Letitia Wright as Shuri, Danai Gurira as Okoye, Angela Bassett as Ramonda, Martin Freeman as Everett K. Ross, Andy Serkis as Ulysses Klaue, Winston Duke as M’Baku and Forest Whitaker as Zuri. The film opens Friday nationwide.

(via ScreenDaily)