‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Will Have the MCU’s Second-Longest Runtime

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“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” will have a runtime of two hours and 41 minutes, according to listings on multiple movie theater websites.The sequel to the Best Picture-nominated superhero film will be the second-longest film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe canon, second only to the three-hour “Avengers: Endgame.” It is five minutes longer than the previous film to hold that No.

2 spot, Chloe Zhao’s “Eternals,” and 27 minutes longer than the first “Black Panther.” TheWrap has reached out to Disney for comment.While several films like “No Time to Die” and “West Side Story” have regularly exceeded 2.5 hours in runtime, audiences have shown that this doesn’t dissuade them from buying a ticket as long as the quality is still high.

A three-hour runtime didn’t stop “Avengers: Endgame” from grossing over $2.7 billion at the global box office, while the DC film “The Batman” grossed $770 million this past spring with an even longer runtime than “Wakanda Forever” at 176 minutes.

Conversely, “Eternals,” which got the lowest Rotten Tomatoes score ever for an MCU film, grossed just $402 million worldwide last November, $30 million less than what “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” grossed just two months prior.