When told masterfully, movies fronted by black actors and characters spell nothing short of success for studios and this week, following ‘Get Out‘, ‘Hidden Figures’, ‘Fences’ and ‘Moonlight’, ‘Black Panther’ gears up to support this fact.
How so?
After watching the net celebrate the release of its trailer, its African-American/African cast has learned that said teaser has already been viewed 89 million times…within 24 hours.
19 million of those views came from eyes glued to last week’s NBA Finals where it nabbed one of its first looks while the rest, generated by the pandemonium its unveiling spark, were generated by video-sharing platforms like YouTube.
Said number rose over the 100 million when views from unofficial user-generated platforms are included.
So many brown people, in a movie, set in Africa, and not a hint of slavery. Thank you Marvel
— sanji (@EscoWilliams) June 12, 2017
‘The Hollywood Reporter’ adds:
Black Panther surpasses the views for teasers for top Marvel and Disney-released movies such as Captain America: Civil War (61 million), Star Wars: The Force Awakens (55 million) and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (52 million).
Catch the movie when it claws its way into theatres on February 16th 2018.
Yet to see the trailer?
This movie is going to be lit….I can’t wait to se it
Leggo
This is the success we can achieve together!!!!
it’s gonna be a let down, it’s still a year away and the hype will die down.
Your hairline is a let down.
lol. Yall are savages
The same was said about Wonder Woman and it trounced all the competition and defied expectations. Black Panther is going to going to be a historic landmark.., it is the next phase of progress for black people around the world.
Shut up
…really.
If he spends the entire movie in that black latex – I’m in!
Hollywood has disappointed me too many times, wonder woman was an exception. so I will not get hyped and will just wait and be surprised. Lol at those calling it an historic moment. please blade proved a black superhero could work years ago, Hollywood just did care. at least wonder woman had a real challenge with cat woman and elektra before her.
This is different than Blade’s struggle because unlike Blade this is a majority black cast and black director.
nuff respect.
This movie will break records. People need to understand that Africans/Blacks are the originals and the creator of all races. Society and other “races” love to discredited, undermined, obstractize, and sabotage blacks in every way.
EXACTLY!!!
Your comment is the Absolute Truth
The trailer was very generic and forgettable though. I wanted it to be better but it isn´t. It even looks cheap compated to other generic Marvel outings.
Already getting bad reviews.
LOL@people feeling like this is going to further validate their place in society, or something. This is a damn movie, you emotionally-needy simps.