'Black Panther' Continues to Set Records With $300M in U.S. on Friday

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Among a trio of films opening this weekend, 'Game Night' earns $1 million in Thursday night previews, followed closely by Natalie Portman-starrer 'Annihilation' with 900,000.

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00:00Black Panther continues to set records at the U.S. box office. The superhero

00:09blockbuster scored the best first week for any title in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

00:13The Disney and Marvel Studios film grossed another $14.3 million on Thursday for a seven-day

00:19domestic total of $292 million, the fourth best showing of all time for any film and besting

00:26the $280 million earned by fellow MCU titled The Avengers in its first week. The movie will

00:31leap past the $300 million mark in North America sometime on Friday afternoon.

00:35Overseas, Black Panther earned $13.3 million on Thursday for an international tally of

00:40$228.1 million and a worldwide haul of, are you ready for it? $520.1 million.

00:48The Ryan Coogler-directed tentpole will easily stay on top in its second weekend with earnings

00:53of $90 million or more. So, what new films hit the box office this weekend? In North America,

00:58a trio of movies goes up against Black Panther, including Game Night, the first major studio

01:02comedy of the year. Game Night, starring Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams, earned $1 million

01:07in previews on Thursday night for a projected debut in the $12 to $14 million range. The story

01:12follows a couple whose regular Game Night with friends suddenly turns into a real-life murder mystery.

01:17Tonight, we're taking Game Night up a notch. We don't need a board and we do not need pieces.

01:25Game Night is hoping to avoid the comedy curse that has plagued the box office over the past

01:29two years. It's also McAdams' first comedy since about time in 2013. Sci-fi film Annihilation,

01:34starring Natalie Portman opposite Oscar Isaac, wasn't far behind in preview grosses,

01:38bringing in $900,000. The movie is tracking to open in the $10 to $12 million range. It tells the

01:44tale of a biologist and former soldier who joins a mission to find out what happened to her husband

01:49inside Area X along America's coastline, where a sinister phenomenon has turned the landscape

01:54into an environmental wasteland, where mysterious dangers abound.

01:57Can you describe its form?

02:00No.

02:03Both Game Night and Annihilation boast strong reviews. And finally, Every Day also hits theaters

02:08this weekend. The young adult film adaptation, costing less than $5 million to produce, earned

02:13$115,000 in Thursday previews. Every Day is tracking to open in the $2 to $3 million range.

02:19MGM insiders say a debut of $3 million would be a win. The movie, targeted at a teenage and

02:24young adult female audience, is based on the best-selling book of the same name about a 16-year-old

02:29girl who falls in love with a disembodied spirit who inhabits a different body every day.

02:34For the latest box office news, head to THR.com and be sure to let me know what you plan on seeing

02:38in theaters this weekend in the comments. Until next time, for The Hollywood Reporter News,

02:42I'm Tiffany Taylor.

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