Cast member Letitia Wright attends the premiere of"Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" in London, Britain, in this November 3 2022 file photo. Picture: REUTERS/TOBY MELVILLE, the latest superhero picture from Walt Disney’s Marvel unit, topped the weekend box office in the US and Canada with $180m in ticket sales.
AMC Entertainment Holdings, the world’s largest theatre chain, climbed as much as 16% in trading on Monday, bringing its rally over the past three trading days to 61%. The company said turnout forled to its fourth-busiest weekend of the year. Rival exhibitor Cinemark Holdings climbed 1.8%. Disney was little changed.film in 2018 was a watershed moment for Disney and the industry as the first big-budget superhero movie to feature a largely black cast. The picture went on to gross almost $1.
Women over the age of 25 accounted for about a third of the audience for the new film, according to people familiar with details of the debut. It is likely that some of the older viewers may not have seen the original but were drawn to the sequel because the first movie became such a sensation, said the person, who asked not to be identified revealing an analysis of the results.