BOX OFFICE FORECAST

This weekend’s only major new movie, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, should to earn at least $175 million on 4300 movie screens. Optimists believe a $200 million opening is possible with half the students out of class honoring Veterans Day.

Rotten Tomatoes scores the Marvel flick at 85% based on movie critics’ opinions. Wakanda Forever might have the biggest debut of the year. Doctor Strange opened with $188 million.

There’s not another blockbuster for the next five weeks to compete against Black Panther: Wakanda Forever until the Avatar sequel arrives the weekend before Christmas. (Box Office Mojo)