Following months of hype, fantastic reviews and a lack of competition, Black Panther crushed all reasonable expectations in its path, launching with one of the highest opening weekends of all time.

Playing in 4,020 theaters, Black Panther scored an unbelievable $192M over the three day weekend, for a per theater average of over $47K. Should that number hold, it would make it the fourth highest per theater average of any wide release in history.

When breaking down the weekend, it seemed on Friday as though Panther may have been a bit front loaded, with roughly a third of its opening day coming from Thursday night previews (numbers that mirrored Captain America: Civil War almost identically). The difference here was that Black Panther held significantly better throughout the weekend. Not to mention, it still has President’s Day, which will likely bring the total over $220M.

Rarely do we see a breakout performance of this kind, and typically it’s one in which the circumstances surrounding the film serve as a kind of ‘perfect storm’; the reviews have been stellar (currently at 98% on Rotten Tomatoes) the competition has been lackluster (Fifty Shades Freed, Winchester, and Maze Runner were the biggest new releases of the past three weeks) and online buzz was through the roof.

Still, that doesn’t explain an opening higher than Avengers: Age of Ultron, and a four day that may be higher than the total domestic gross of Justice League. Really, the only logical explanation is that it tapped into a different audience than most superhero films; it was the first Marvel release to not have a male majority, instead carrying a 50/50 split on opening day. Additionally, 37% of the audience was African-American, obviously higher than usual for a major blockbuster.

While there was concern that overseas audiences may not have interest due to the largely PoC cast, those fears can officially be put to rest; Panther launched with a whopping $169M overseas, with its current total at $361M, which will be over $400M by Tuesday.

The real question here is just how far Black Panther can go; it didn’t show signs of being terribly front loaded over the weekend, and as a result a total of over $500M domestic is definitely possible, albeit not locked down yet; the likelihood of a billion is much more within reach after this opening, especially without much competition in the coming weeks.

Believe it or not, there were actually other films playing this weekend; Peter Rabbit took second with a strong $17M, which should be raised to over $20M over the four day weekend. Fifty Shades Freed was down 56%, a somewhat surprising hold, though the real performance was on Valentines Day, which resulted in over $10M, helping raise the total to $76M. This is actually the best second weekend drop for a Fifty Shades film, which is somewhat confounding given the massive competition and built in fanbase. Regardless, it will likely finish between $90-$100M.

Jumanji and The Greatest Showman were down around 20% each, with the former headed to over $400M, and the latter topping La La Land after 9 weekends in release. The 15:17 to Paris had a solid 39% hold, raising its total to $25M after two weekends.

Two other films opened this weekend, though neither managed to approach their expectations; Lionsgate’s Early Man flopped with just $3.1M from 2,494 theaters. Typically, in the case of British animations such as this, the foreign market does well enough that the domestic release doesn’t matter all that much; this was not the case with Early Man. Aardman’s latest has clocked in just around $11M against a production budget of $50M.

Pure Flix unsuccessfully attempted counter programming with their Biblical action film Samson, which posted around half of what was expected; just $1.9M from over 1,200 theaters.

Next weekend will see the release of two R rated genre films, Paramount’s cerebral sci-fi Annihilation, as well as Warner Brother’s action comedy Game Night.