Black Panther: Wakanda Forever debuted in theaters on November 11.

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Warning: This article contains spoilers for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.In Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, released in theaters nationwide on Friday, November 11, Queen Ramonda (Angela Bassett), Shuri (Letitia Wright), Okoye (Lupita Nyong’o), and the Dora Milaje must fight to protect Wakanda from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s death, including a new threat, Namor (Tenoch Huerta Mejía).

To keep Wakanda safe, Shuri must rise to the occasion as the new Black Panther. When she takes the heart-shaped herb, a synthetic version that the genius princess manages to create in her lab, she does not see her brother. Instead, she sees her mass murdering cousin, Killmonger, once again played by the long-time Ryan Coogler collaborator Michael B. Jordan, who, of course, died at the end of the 2018 Black Panther film.
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Shuri struggles to embrace Wakanda’s next chapter in Wakanda Forever, according to Coogler. Rather than face her enemies in healthy way, at first Shuri lets her thirst for revenge and vengeance consume her. “Shuri’s still not healing—she’s not taking steps to move forward in a healthy way,” says Coogler, about the emotional place the princess is in when she takes the synthetic heart shaped herb. “That’s when Namor shows up,” and that’s when she’s called on to defend her people.

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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Domestic Opening Weekend Surpasses DC’s Black Adam

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With Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Marvel Studios seems to have another hit on its hands. Based on the movie’s previews and opening night numbers, the highly anticipated sequel to 2018’s Black Panther could be the biggest opening weekend of the year.

After earning $28 million domestically from its Thursday previews, putting Wakanda Forever in the top fifteen preview totals of all time, the movie then went on to earn over $58 million as of the time of this writing on Friday, November 11, the film’s opening day. In context, the Black Panther sequel is set to surpass DC’s Black Adam by the end of Friday, and it is halfway to surpassing Thor: Love and Thunder’s opening haul. However, the question still remains if it will be able to match the opening weekend of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which earned upward of $200 when it debuted.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is now playing in movie theaters following its premiere on Nov. 11.