It was announced on teebee this morning that the Black Panther movie has already set a record for ticket sales,and it isn't even in theaters yet. Those were pre-sales.
They also mentioned that some black celebs were buying up all the tickets in certain theaters and giving them away to "po ghetto rat chil-runs" (ok,ok. I made that up. They actually said "poor black children") so they could see a black Super Hero in action and be inspired. Which is really a way of saying there are no black heroes to be seen in black communities,so the little chil-runs have to admire a fictional hero.
A word of warning for any of you who are not black. Don't even THINK about attending this movie at a movie theater. If you want to see it,wait and buy or rent the video. The closest movie theater to me is in a majority black city,and they actually had riots and had to call out the city SWAT team when "the natives got restless" and started breaking out the glasses and assaulting the ticket taker and ushers after the movie sold out and there were no more seats to sit in when the last Eddie Murphy "watch me outsmart the white guys" movie came out. Seems like they thought it was some sort of white conspiracy to keep da bruthas doawn by the theater management when they decided they didn't want to make more money,so they just refused to sell tickets to black Eddie Murphy fans causen deys bees black!"
If you are white,you don't want to be the only snowball in the coal bin if you want to keep living,so stay away.
Can't wait to hear Bathhouse Barry endorse the movie.