Clearly the movie is proving that you don’t always need well-known characters to make a dent at the box office, although in addition to a cool premise the February release date and the relative lack of competition at the box office over the past few weeks likely also helped.
Black Panther has already hit several milestones at the box office.
After just a couple of weeks, the movie hit half a billion dollars at the box office, which was also a big deal, due to the limited time the movie had been in theaters.
It also passed up Wonder Woman as the most financially successful superhero origin movie of all time.