The pop culture sensation ‘Black Panther’ has set another record as the most tweeted movie ever.
Twitter reports that Ryan Coogler’s box-office smash has been tweeted about more than 35 million times. That pushes it ahead of the previous record-holder, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” The most recent “Star Wars” installment, “The Last Jedi,” ranks third.
Over the weekend, ‘Black Panther’ became the first film since 2009’s “Avatar” to top the box office in North America five straight weekends.
It has grossed more than $607 million domestically and $1.2 billion worldwide. In the next week, it’s expected to surpass “The Avengers” as the highest grossing superhero film ever, not accounting for inflation.
Twitter said “Black Panther” had the most tweets in the U.S, followed by the United Kingdom and Thailand.
Black Panther is a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name.
Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the eighteenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film is directed by Ryan Coogler, who co-wrote the screenplay with Joe Robert Cole, and stars Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa / Black Panther, alongside Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, and Andy Serkis.
In Black Panther, T’Challa returns home as king of Wakanda but finds his sovereignty challenged by a new adversary, in a conflict with global consequences