Boseman (Message from the King, Marshall) plays the titular superhero in Black Panther, also known as T'Challa, king and protector of the technologically advanced fictional African nation of Wakanda. With five million posts, Black Panther is the most tweeted-about movie of 2018 — ahead even of Star Wars: The Last Jedi — and is outperforming The Hunger Games and Beauty and the Beast in pre-sales. Experts are predicting a $150-165 million opening which would challenge the $152 million Presidents Day weekend record set by another Marvel Comics creation, Fox's Deadpool (2016). Help Children See Black Panther ended up making fives time that amount and Joseph has since encouraged hundreds of campaigns around the world to raise a total of $400,000 under the hashtag #BlackPantherChallenge. "Black Panther" isn't the first movie featuring non-white superheroes — around 30 ethnic characters have donned lycra for big screen appearances since the early 1990s — but the Wakandan royal is the first black protagonist to land his own movie in the MCU.

Source: Daily Nation February 14, 2018 03:11 UTC