Box Office

James Cameron’s Pandoran creatures couldn’t come soon enough, box office analysts expressed in their comments as the Thanksgiving weekend figures trickled in. While Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Black Adam continue to be bright spots, the recent Thanksgiving holiday numbers were considered among the worst.

As expected, Avatar: The Way of Water will be released in China and now has an official date – December 16, showing in regular and IMAX format. (It is the international release date for all territories.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is still number 1 at the French box office. Directed by Ryan Coogler with Letitia Wright, Angela Bassett, and Danai Gurira, the movie is about the people of Wakanda fighting to protect their home from intervening world powers as they mourn the death of King T’Challa.

Hitting the global benchmark of $500 million – $546. 3 million, to be exact – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever seems to be rallying moviegoers to the movie theaters in droves with the word that the film’s warriors chant: “Yibambe (hold fast)!” The domestic box office, where the sequel stayed on top in its second week, contributed $288 million to that $500 million-plus worldwide total so far.

The goal of being the No. 1 film territory in the world (which it held in 2020 and 2021) no longer seems a priority for the Chinese administration.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is the new number 1 at the French box office. Directed by Ryan Coogler with Letitia Wright, Angela Bassett, and Danai Gurira, the movie is about the people of Wakanda fighting to protect their home from intervening world powers as they mourn the death of King T’Challa.

As expected, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever made a smashing debut and raked in $330 million globally. In the domestic box office race, director Ryan Coogler’s sequel to his 2018 blockbuster bowed with $180 million, the second biggest opening this year and the third in the COVID-19 era, after Spider-Man: No Way Home and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

Sony reported last Wednesday that Where the Crawdads Sing has been approved for release in China on November 25. The film was released in the US in July and has made $50 million in international markets with a total gross of $140 million.

Smile, the film that was originally planned to go straight to streaming, is grinning its way to the bank. The film made for $17 million – a measly sum by Hollywood standards – has now hit the $200 million mark globally.

There has been some online chatter started by boxofficetheory. com about why Black Adam was not released in China despite the fact that Dwayne Johnson has a huge fan following in the country.