As previously reported, the weekend of March 9 marked the first time in recent memory, and possibly ever, that films
by African - American
directors have claimed the No. 1 and No. 2 spots on the same weekend, with Coogler's «Black Panther» again topping the box office, while Ava DuVernay's adaptation «A Wrinkle in Time,» which boasts a black
female protagonist in Storm Reid as young heroine Meg Murry, opened in the
second - place spot.