'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever' tops box office, scoring second-biggest opening of the year
'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever' was released four years after the original film
AMC CEO Adam Aron: 'Wakanda Forever' second biggest hit only to 'Top Gun: Maverick'
AMC Entertainment president and CEO Adam Aron discusses the potential for 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever' and the Christmas movie season on 'The Claman Countdown.'
It was a big weekend at the box office for "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," raking in more than $180 million in ticket sales across the United States and Canada, per The Walt Disney Co.
The film was viewed in more than 4,396 theaters across North America, bringing in $84 million on its opening day.
The highly-anticipated sequel film to Marvel Studio's "Black Panther" from 2018 brought in an additional $150 million from 50 territories, bringing the total earnings to $330 million.
It was the second-biggest opening of 2022, only falling short to "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness," another Marvel production, released in May.
Angela Bassett reprises her role as Queen Ramonda in the sequel film. (©Disney / Fox News)
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Lupita Nyong'o, Michael B. Jordan and Angela Bassett are among the actors leading the ensemble cast.
Despite the successful numbers, "Wakanda Forever" did not top the original film, which brought in $1.4 billion worldwide, making it one of the highest grossing films of all time and a cultural phenomenon.
Angela Bassett plays Queen Ramonda, the mother of the late Chadwick Boseman's character, T'Challa. (©Disney / Fox News)
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Before numbers had been calculated, AMC CEO Adam Aron told Fox Business, "Movie-going in the last couple of months was light," but with the Christmas season upon us, things should become more rampant.
"Our advanced bookings for ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ are like frothy; they are robust. It's going to be a monstrous hit," he said.
"Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" earned $180 million in ticket sales during its opening weekend. (©Disney / Fox News)
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"Black Adam," starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Henry Cavill, and Pierce Brosnan, came in second this weekend, earning $8.6 million.
The Associated Press Contributed to this report.