Everything you need to know about Marvel’s Black Panther

BLAIR MARNELL, SuperheroHype
AUG 07, 2015

Marvel Studios’ next film, Captain America: Civil War, is getting a lot of press for the pending conflict between Captain America and Iron Man, the introduction of Spider-Man to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and more than enough superheroes to fill out an Avengers movie. That film will also serve as the live-action debut of Chadwick Boseman (pictured above right) as Black Panther, one of the very first black superheroes in comics!

The official announcement of Black Panther
Left to Right Robert Downey Jr., Chadwick Boseman and Chris Evans

Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created Black Panther in 1966 during their epic run on Fantastic Four. Black Panther a.k.a. T’Challa was like no other superhero before him. He was the king of a technologically-advanced African nation known as Wakanda. And Black Panther was nobody’s sidekick. One of the reasons that Marvel Studios retains the rights to Black Panther is that he became a solo hero outside of the Fantastic Four franchise, and he was also a member of the Avengers in the early years of that comic.

Writer Don McGregor was the first to chronicle Black Panther’s solo adventures, and his innovative run was followed by Jack Kirby, Peter B. Gillis, Christopher Priest, Reginald Hudlin [Yes the director of House Party and Boomerang starring Eddie Murphy-Dankwa Brooks], Jonathan Maberry, and David Liss along with many different comic artists. Marvel has also signaled that a new Black Panther ongoing comic book series will be released next fall following the conclusion of the Secret Wars crossover event.

While Black Panther hasn’t made many appearances outside of Marvel’s comic book universe, Marvel Studios clearly thinks that Black Panther could be one of its next film franchises. In 2018, Boseman will star in the Black Panther movie, and it’s a pretty safe bet that he will also show up in the two-part Avengers: Infinity War. Along the way, you can expect to see a whole lot of Black Panther merchandise and collectibles as Marvel paves the way for its next superstar.

SuperHeroHype’s Origins and Evolutions is taking a look back at Black Panther’s long history in comics and a glimpse at his upcoming cinematic adventures via a great slide show. CLICK the graphic below to go their page. (The slide show is at the bottom of the article)

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The Black Panther solo film is set to bow on  February 16, 2018

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'42' Coming To DVD in July

Warner Home Video has announced that the Jackie Robinson bio-pic 42, will be released on Blu-ray/DVD next month, July 16.

So far, the only extras that have been announced that will be included on the DVD are three behind-the-scenes featurettes: Stepping into History, Full-Contact Baseball and The Legacy of the Number 42.

No word as yet about any director’s commentary by Brian Hegeland, or by actors Chadwick Boseman, Harrison Ford and Nicole Beharie, but it would seem likely that there will be.

Info from Shadow & Act

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Read my review of 42 here

Opening Weekend Numbers for '42'

—Nikki Finke, Deadline.com
April 14, 2013

Exit polling for Legendary Pictures/Warner Bros’ 42 showed the audience composition was males 48% females 52%; under age 25 was 17%, age 25 and up 83% (with a predominantly older audience), and the main reason for attending the movie was subject matter 84%. A Warner Bros exec tells me: “While we do not poll race breakdown, I can tell you we performed extremely well in all the large urban markets. But the highest grossing theaters were the country’s most commercial screens.” Pic’s $9.1M Friday opening received an impressive +25% Saturday bump to $11.3M for what should be a greatly overperforming $27.3M weekend and #1.

The Jackie Robinson biopic 42 (3,003 theaters) nicely overperformed tracking which was in the mid-teens for an original movie about race and baseball with no hot stars. (Granted Harrison Ford is a legend but not box office nowadays.) The opening number is a record for a baseball flick in terms of straight dollars, topping the $19.5M debut of 2011′s Moneyball.

Even factoring in higher ticket prices and inflation, the $13.7M debut of 1992′s A League Of Their Own would have been on par with 42. The moderately budgeted film ($38M) received an ‘A+’ CinemaScore which will help word of mouth. Grosses on MLB’s Jackie Robinson Day – which is April 15 - when every player wears Robinson’s #42, could even stay level because of the attention. In addition to the $38M marketing spend, the film has generated a ton of national media and awareness that didn’t cost any
money. “Just watching the film’s box office growing at a rapid pace all day,” a Warner Bros exec gushed on Friday. “Great news for Thomas Tull and his team at Legendary.”

Still, I wondered whether Academy Award winning writer-director Brian Helgeland’s soft-focus storyline would turn off moviegoers to Thomas Tull‘s passion project, especially without the street cred of African-American filmmakers involved. But no. ‘All you can do is put these things together in the way you think is best,” Tull told me Thursday. Instead he relied on Rachel Robinson. ”Her voice helped us with authenticity. That was the person who lived it,” Tull said. “And that was a really important story for us to tell.” Tull
does admit that, had Rachel herself not been so involved, there may have been
more focus on the tough stuff.

The filmmakers wound up with the highest testing movie that Legendary has ever had. Rachel Robinson had been promised over the last two decades that Hollywood would make this movie – and never did. Then, at 90 years old, she was approached by Tull two years ago. ”She looked me in the eye and asked, ‘Are you going to make this movie?’ and I said we’d make it happen,’” Tull recalled.

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Jackie Robinson 'SportsCentury' [VIDEO]

Galvanized by the terrific film 42, I wanted to know more about the legend Jackie Robinson.

To be clear, of course I knew about Jackie Robinson, but nothing in depth until now. Like many I am a slave to the media and I'm more liable to see a movie about a public figure before I'll read about them. I HAVE read books about public figures, I'm just more liable to see a movie about them.

No movie though no matter how good will encapsulate a person or subject and if you are so inclined about the person or subject you should ALWAYS seek more information.

As I said in my review of the film about the Tuskegee Airmen, Red Tails

It’s a MOVIE, it’s made to entertain not be your only basis for history. Historical films like this are good for just that the entertainment and maybe it’ll spark broader interest where you can go to your local library or in this day and age Google and Wikipedia. Even those sources aren’t the authority, but good places to begin your research.

So taking my own advice I am seeking more information on Mr. Robinson and presenting such to you below. HUGE THANKS to Reelblack for hipping me to this episode of ESPN Classic's SportsCentury on YouTube about Jackie Robinson. Below is the whole episode in seven parts.






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