Saturday AM: Updated with chart It’s the best of times and the worst of times at the box office. On the bright side we haveBlack Panther which is sitting on everything with a fifth No. 1 weekend of $28.5M, -30%, and summer-like results with a running $606.8M total. Our financial sources believe that Black Panther‘s stateside end game is around $650M and $1.25 billion worldwide, however, they also project that the movie will churn an estimated profit of $461M after all ancillaries (ironically, a total that’s close to what some analysts believe Disney CEO Bob Iger could earn over four years if he hits all his performance goals in his compensation package). That’s a sizeable chunk of change, one that’s higher than the profits of Avengers: Age of Ultron ($382.3M) and Captain America: Civil War‘s ($193.4M) and we’re informed a lot of that has to do with the fresh face cast of Black Panther. There’s not a lot of heavy participations impacting Black Panther’s bottom line in the Robert Downey Jr. or Joss Whedon Avengers sense, nor is it at the level of a Fast & Furious cast where its top players reportedly earn $0.40 of every $1 of profit after breakeven. Note Disney did not generate these Black Panther profit estimates for us. Related Story ‘Tomb… Read full this story
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