With no new wide releases and the Top 5 unchanged, Marvel Studios’ “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” will take one more No. 1 weekend in its fifth frame, adding around $11 million to bring its domestic total to $409 million and its global total to $767.8 million.
The box office sank to near-record lows for the year this weekend as theaters are counting down the days until “Avatar: The Way of Water” gets things going again with an expected $150 million-plus opening starting this Friday.
Overall totals this weekend sank to a dismal $38 million, the second lowest total seen this year and just barely above the $35 million recorded on the weekend of January 28, a weekend with no new wide releases and that had the seventh weekend of “Spider-Man: No Way Home” topping the charts.