
It’ll be that much harder to hit the $1.4 billion mark that the original reached just four years ago.

Unlike the first film, which helped to shatter box office myths about movies with Black stars, the sequel likely won’t have access to two major overseas film markets: China (where the first movie earned $105 million) and Russia (where the first movie earned $19.2 million). There were plenty of challenges facing “Wakanda Forever,” including its 2-hour and-41 minute runtime, a dramatically altered moviegoing landscape and the loss of Chadwick Boseman, who played Wakanda’s fearless leader and died in 2020 after a private battle with colon cancer at age 43.
