Marvel’s Black Panther has had an INCREDIBLE and record-breaking debut at the box office, reportedly making over $218 million which would make it the largest opening for a February debut ever and the fifth largest of all time.

Well, one movie theater nearly took away from that total (by accident) by playing a completely different movie: Fifty Shades Freed.

Atlanta’s Regal Atlantic Station moviegoers were set to watch the highly anticipated Marvel movie when Fifty Shades Freed began to play.

Stephen Waites, who was in the theater, live-tweeted what happened…

 

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He also told Inside Edition, “When the movie started, everybody thought it was another preview for about a minute…Once everybody figured out it wasn’t “Black Panther,” everybody started Booing and yelling.”

To say that Black Panther has been well received and highly anticipated by viewers would be an understatement…

 

 

Black Panther stars Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Andy Serkis, Forest Whitaker and This Is Us star, Sterling K. Brown.

If you’ve seen the movie, we’d love to hear what you thought, let us know!

 

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