Why You Can Trust CNET 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever' Breaks Box Office Record for Highest-Grossing November Debut
The Marvel sequel brought in $330 million worldwide, according to Disney.
Namor makes his MCU debut in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
The hype for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was real. The Black Panther sequel topped the box office and grossed over $330 million in global ticket sales in its opening weekend, according to Disney.
Wakanda Forever is the second biggest debut of 2022 after fellow MCU movie Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, according to the Associated Press. It is also the highest-grossing November debut ever, according to CNN.
The first Black Panther movie opened to $202 million at the box office in 2018 and eventually went on to become the 14th highest-grossing movie of all time, at $1.4 billion worldwide. After the sudden death of Chadwick Boseman, who played King T'Challa/Black Panther in the original movie, Wakanda Forever became a tribute to the honorable character. Boseman died in 2020 from colon cancer, which he had quietly fought for many years.
Along with Black Panther's returning actors (Angela Bassett, Lupita Nyong'o, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke and Danai Gurira), Wakanda Forever introduces a few new actors and characters to Wakanda, like Michaela Coel as warrior Aneka, Dominique Thorne as Ironheart and Tenoch Huerta Mejia as anti-hero Namor.
