'Pacific Rim 2' Stop Box Office Record 'Black Panther'
Black Panther's heyday at North America's domestic box office is over. The upcoming Pacific Rim Uprising movie successfully broke the Marvel superhero movie box office record.
According to Box Office Mojo data, the Pacific Rim sequel will open with a weekend debut revenue of US $ 28 million and shift Black Panther from number one position.Although managed to shift the Black Panther who has mastered the North American film market for five weeks, Pacific Rim Uprising revenue is actually still below the previous series.
The initial opening of Pacific Rim Uprising was slightly below its first film debut of US $ 37.7 million.Setting 10 years after Pacific Rim, Uprising is worked on by Steven S DeKnight based on a script he wrote with Emily Carmichael, Kira Snyder and TS Nowlin.The story idea is lifted from the story of the creation of the inaugural film director, Guillermo del Toro.
The sequel tells the new generation of Jeager pilots who are ready to fight the Kaiju monter and prevent human extinction.
Kaiju is a monster of another dimension that invades the earth. In the first film, portals from other dimensions to the earth on the seabed have been destroyed, so that Kaiju can not return to earth.
On the other hand, with the emergence of the Pacific Rim sequel, Black Panther fills second place in the box office ranks with revenues of US $ 16.6 million.
In total, the Disney and Marvel movies have raised US $ 1.2 billion with domestic income accounting for 51 percent.
The position of box office number three this week filled by the film I Can Only Imagine who get income US $ 13.8 million.
In fourth position, there is Sherlock Holmes film which debuted with US $ 10.4 million. While the movie Tomb Raider fell to fifth position with revenues of US $ 10.4 million after previously being in second position.