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标 题: 电影《黑豹》Black Panther将打破史上票房纪录！
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'Black Panther,' already a cultural moment, is about to shatter
movie business assumptions
The fictional African land of Wakanda, which outsiders wrongly assume to be
a Third World country, is the most technologically advanced nation on Earth
in the Marvel comic book universe. This weekend, the new film about Wakanda
’s protector, Black Panther, is also poised to destroy long-held
assumptions about the movie business.
All signs say Marvel Studios’ “Black Panther,” being released Thursday
evening by Walt Disney Co., is having a cultural moment fueled by massive
pent-up demand for what is expected to be the first global superhero
blockbuster to feature a mostly black cast and an African American director.
The $200-million film — directed by Ryan Coogler (“Creed”) and starring
Chadwick Boseman as the titular hero — is expected to gross at least $150
million in the United States and Canada through Monday, according to people
who have reviewed audience surveys, putting it on track to become one of
Marvel Studios’ most valuable franchises.
Such a strong domestic result would set a record for a film directed by an
African American filmmaker. It would also represent an unprecedented opening
for a Marvel Studios movie that is not a sequel or an “Avengers” film,
easily beating the first “Iron Man,” “Thor,” “Captain America” and “
Guardians of the Galaxy” pictures.
Crucially, “Black Panther” could help shake up the way Hollywood does
business by defying assumptions about films with predominantly black casts
and filmmakers. Most movies with black casts, producers and directors —
including the highly profitable “Girls Trip” and Tyler Perry productions
— are made with low budgets and marketed to American audiences, not
international crowds. “Black Panther,” by contrast, is getting a global
release and marketing push from Disney.
“There aren't many examples of African American directors being given
that kind of opportunity to make a big-budget movie with a black cast and a
global marketing campaign,” said Darnell Hunt, dean of social sciences at
UCLA. “It's a great opportunity to demonstrate the box-office power of
this type of storytelling. This film, on both the cultural and economic
fronts, has the potential to be a powerhouse.”
According to Fandango, “Black Panther” has pre-sold more tickets than any
other superhero movie at the same point in its life cycle. The film has
energized black moviegoers, many of whom bought their tickets weeks in
advance and tweeted their excitement about it.
The movie has also inspired black charities and celebrities, including
actress Octavia Spencer and Tampa Bay Buccaneers player Clinton McDonald, to
host free screenings of the film in African American communities. Rapper T.
I. teamed with Walmart to give free tickets to fans in Atlanta for an
advanced screening, one of five screenings that the retail giant set up for
this week in different cities.
Spencer, who does not appear in the film, wrote a Jan. 31 post on Instagram
saying she planned to buy out a theater in Mississippi “in an underserved
community there to ensure that all our brown children can see themselves as
a superhero.”
Marvel and its Burbank-based owner, Disney, have taken steps to target
African American audiences. The studio enlisted rap superstar Kendrick Lamar
to create the original soundtrack, including contributions from artists
such as SZA, Khalid and Vince Staples. Lamar recently performed at a college
football halftime show to promote a new trailer for the movie.
Other films have already proved that diverse casting pays off at the box
office. Universal Pictures’ “The Fate of the Furious,” directed by F.
Gary Gray, who is African American, grossed $1.24 billion last year, mostly
outside North America. Jordan Peele’s satirical horror film ‘Get Out’
grossed $255 million at the box office last year and scored four Oscar
nominations, including best picture.
African Americans are a powerful underserved market for Hollywood, making up
about 15% of frequent moviegoers, while constituting 12% of the general
population, according to the Motion Picture Assn. of America. Still, only
six of the top 100 films released in 2017 had black directors, according to
a study by USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative released in January.
“Audiences of color are driving box office and they're driving ratings,
” Hunt said. “Hollywood, if it wants to remain viable, will need to
produce what the audience wants, and the audience is becoming more diverse
by the day.”
Yet Marvel has previously been criticized for not giving lead roles to
minorities and women. Now the studio is starting to address the lack of
superhero films with leads who are not white men, including upcoming
projects such us “Captain Marvel,” starring Brie Larson, and a Black Widow
movie with Scarlett Johansson that is in development.
Marvel and Disney declined to comment.
While there have been superhero movies starring African Americans, such as
Wesley Snipes in the “Blade” films and Will Smith in “Hancock,” “Black
Panther,” in particular, is tapping into pent-up demand. Though the
character of Black Panther (real name: T’Challa) was created in the 1960s,
he has never had his own movie. Boseman made his debut as the character in
the 2016 blockbuster “Captain America: Civil War.”
“It just seems like this is becoming a major event,” said Jeff Bock, a box
-office analyst with Exhibitor Relations. “People forget how few movies
there are for African American audiences, so when you combine that audience
with the regular Marvel crowd, of course this is going to be huge.”
The likely success of “Black Panther” comes at a pivotal time for Disney,
which paid $4 billion for Marvel Entertainment in 2009. Disney has enjoyed
an unmatched string of successes from the Marvel franchise, with multiple
interconnecting story lines converging in this year’s superhero mashup, “
Avengers: Infinity War.” After mining its most famous characters to great
effect at the box office, Marvel needs to tap fresh, less well-known
characters to build its audience and pave the way for the company’s future.
“It's about keeping up with the times and putting characters into story
lines that are relevant,” Bock said. “They've got to continue to take
risks.”
Among Disney’s stable of brands, Marvel has in some ways been overshadowed
by Lucasfilm and its “Star Wars” property in recent years. Three “Star
Wars” movies have come out since 2015, and Disney is placing even bigger
bets on the brand — developing two new film series and several TV shows
based on the space opera. And there’s the theme park business: Disney is
building $1-billion "Star Wars"-themed areas at Disneyland Resort
and Walt Disney World Resort, projects that dwarf Marvel additions to the
company’s parks in recent years.
But some observers say that Marvel could become increasingly important to
the company as the “Star Wars” franchise shows signs of possibly losing
steam. Though Disney's "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" has grossed
more than $1.32 billion worldwide since its release in mid-December, some
observers have nonetheless pegged the film as a disappointment, given the
lofty expectations. The movie's theatrical haul will fall far short of
the performance of 2015's "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," which
took in more than $2 billion worldwide.
Laura Martin, an analyst with Needham & Co., said Marvel has more options
than Lucasfilm because it has a “broader panoply” of characters compared
with those from the Star Wars universe. Case in point, Marvel has been
mining lesser-known heroes such as Doctor Strange and Ant-Man, and doing
huge business with them. With “Black Panther,” “Avengers: Infinity War”
and “Ant-Man and the Wasp,” 2018 marks the first time three Marvel films
will be released by Disney in a year.
“Marvel has more flexibility, and if they tell a great story, it doesn’t
matter if you don’t know the character,” Martin said.
By most accounts, that’s what Marvel has done with “Black Panther.” The
film has an almost perfect score on the review aggregation website Rotten
Tomatoes and received an overwhelmingly positive response from moviegoers
who saw early screenings of the picture, praising its compelling characters,
Afro-futuristic visuals and themes of black empowerment.
“The creation of ‘Black Panther’ represents the turn from seeing black
people as victims to them having agency, and who has more agency than a
superhero?” UCLA’s Hunt said.
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: 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
: 发信人: WCNMLGB (CCC), 信区: Military
: 标 题: 电影《黑豹》Black Panther将打破史上票房纪录！
: 发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Feb 14 12:35:42 2018, 美东)
: 太激动了。真正开创历史的黑人英雄史诗巨作。电影中的非洲国家万砍大将是世界上最
: 先进最强大的国家。横扫一切地球反动势力！让白人和黄人在泥哥的大吊下颤抖吧！
: 'Black Panther,' already a cultural moment, is about to shatter
: movie business assumptions
: The fictional African land of Wakanda, which outsiders wrongly assume to be
: a Third World country, is the most technologically advanced nation on Earth
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