The film also set
a number of box office records.
Not exact matches
Total domestic
box office grosses were up over 6 % in 2012 (to a
record $ 10.83 billion), while the
number of tickets sold also increased by a similar percentage after falling to a 16 - year low the year before.
Should those
numbers hold up, that would put Black Panther within striking distance
of the
box -
office record for a Presidents Day Weekend premiere, now held by 2016's Deadpool with $ 152 million.
«It may not have done well at the
box office but it broke the all - time
record for the
number of film geeks insisting it's genius.»
Ultimately Chan's accomplishments, however breathtaking, seem to have more to do with the Guinness Book
of World
Records than they do with the history
of art — though it's worth adding that, according to the New York Times, Rumble in the Bronx was the
number - one
box -
office hit in mainland China last year.
; RED DUST, the TRC courtroom drama starring Hilary Swank; the stylish Cape Flats gangster film, DOLLARS AND WHITE PIPES; the
record - breaking
box office performers MAMA JACK and MR. BONES, starring South Africa's
number one
box office star, Leon Schuster; THE LONG RUN starring Armin Muehler - Stahl (SHINE); THE THEORY
OF FLIGHT starring Academy Award ® winning Kenneth Branagh and Helena Bonham Carter; BRAVO TWO ZERO, (as co-producer), a BBC co-production starring Sean Bean, based on Andy McNab's best - selling book of the same titl
OF FLIGHT starring Academy Award ® winning Kenneth Branagh and Helena Bonham Carter; BRAVO TWO ZERO, (as co-producer), a BBC co-production starring Sean Bean, based on Andy McNab's best - selling book
of the same titl
of the same title.
As the
box office numbers for the past weekend were tallied, most people were paying attention to the success
of Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince and the second week drop off for Bruno, but in amongst all those ticket sales there was another
record being broken.
In an explosive weekend at the specialty
box office, Paul Thomas Anderson's «The Master» broke the
record for the best limited debut
of all time (topping «Moonrise Kingdom»), while Nicholas Jarecki's «Arbitrage» managed some excellent
numbers on a much wider screen count.