The superhero gene went up, up and away in 2018 finishing with the year’s three top domestic box office releases (Black Panther, The Incredibles 2 and Avengers: Infinity War, with combined box office of $2 billion) and three more tentpoles ranked in the Top 10 (Deadpool 2 at No. 5, Ant-Man and The Wasp at No. 8 and Venom at No. 10). More surprisingly, the genre closes out 2018 with as a surprisingly viable contender in the Oscar race for best picture. Related How Paranoid Should Studios & Exhibitors Be About The Disney-Fox Merger In 2019? That contender, of course, is the Disney/Marvel Studios film Black Panther, a popcorn crowd pleaser that grew into a full-blown cultural happening thanks to the unexpected profundity of its sci-fi tale of gleaming Wakanda, the fictitious African nation that cloaks its existence behind a veil of futuristic technology but cannot hide from the dark secrets in its own past. Black Panther captured lightning in a bottle by blending its proud comic-book legacy (the character was the first black superhero when he was introduced by Marvel Comics in 1966) with civil rights history, sleek CG spectacle and of-the-moment music (Kendrick Lamar’s soundtrack led Grammy nominations with eight nods, including album of the year). It… Read full this story
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