Well, it was fun while it lasted, but in the end, all good things must come to an end.

Finally, after six continuous weeks, Black Panther finally fell out of its usual No.1 position at the weekend box office down to No. 2 with just under $16.7 million. Not any kind of sorrowful tragedy, of course, since it’ll be hanging around the top ten list for some time. And as previously reported here a few days ago on Shadow and Act, the film is now the biggest-grossing superhero film ever domestically, outgrossing the previous record holder, the first Avengers movie.

And to add to that it should be no surprise that Black Panther is now also the biggest grossing film ever in east, west and southern Africa, which begs the question what’s the biggest grossing film in North Africa? Now, with $631 million domestically, it is now the fifth biggest-grossing film ever in the U.S. and will soon overtake Jurassic World and Titanic to eventually land as the third-biggest grossing film ever (not adjusted for inflation).

Could it overtake Avatar, which is still in second place? Possibly. It has a good shot at it. But can it become the biggest-grossing domestic film ever, overtaking Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which grossed $936.6 million domestically? At this stage not likely. but who knows? And with $1.237 billion worldwide, it has now moved up to become the 14th biggest grossing worldwide as of today. That’s a record that is going to be pretty hard to beat.

Well maybe… that is until Avengers: Infinity War opens in late April, which I predict will have the biggest opening for any film this year and become the biggest grossing film of the year worldwide.

But that’s the thing about predictions. Most of the time they’re wrong. Who knows right now at this stage of the game what could happen? However, one thing for sure is that more people who normally wouldn’t be interested in Infinity War will be interested in seeing it just to see Black Panther again. And it would not be a surprise if Marvel has shot some new additional scenes with him, M’Baku, Okoye and Shuri in it just to boost their presence in the film.

But as for the No. 1 film this weekend, it was Universal/Legendary Pictures’ Pacific Rim Uprising toplined by John Boyega, with $28 million, which is not great for the reportedly $150 million film. But in keep in mind that the first Pacific Rim film, released by Warner Bros. in 2013 and directed by Guillermo Del Toro, opened with an underperforming $37 million and grossed $102 million domestically, which was terrible for the reportedly bigger-budgeted $190 million film. But it went on to gross another $310 million overseas.

But still, with such a high price tag for the film, it was not the huge box office blockbuster Warner Bros. was hoping it would be and passed on a sequel. But Legendary Pictures was eventually willing to put up the money and Universal picked up the project with a lower budget and hiring a cheaper TV director to make it. They are no doubt counting on the overseas market to pull the film through like the first one and depending on Boyega’s popularity due to his Star Wars films to attract an international audience. So what it does here is not as important as what it’ll do worldwide. Which begs yet another question as to how will the film be sold in China? Will Boyega’s face be prominent in the posters or most likely they just feature the giant robots?

However, Pacific Rim Uprising‘s status will be short-lived when Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One opens next week and is sure to be the No.1 next week. But what might be more interesting is how Tyler Perry’s new film Acrimony with Taraji P. Henson performs next week.

As for new films this weekend the animated Paramount film Sherlock Gnomes came in a tepid 4th place with just $10 million but other newcomers fared even worse such as Sony’s faith-based film Paul, Apostle of Christ with just $5 million and the long in the can and long-delayed teenage romance film Midnight Sun which grossed only $4.1 million and proving again that Open Road Films can’t figure out how to open a film, with never having a film that opened bigger than $10 million.

A Wrinkle in Time took a hit this weekend dropping some 50 percent to come in fifth with $8 million and a total of $73.8 million still heading towards at least $90 million. The film is still opening up overseas including the UK this weekend but in the reported foreign terrorises has grossed so far $14.1 with Russia ahead with over $5 million followed by Spain second and France third.

Full list:

1) Pacific Rim Uprising Uni. $28,003,000
2) Black Panther BV $16,658,000 Total: $630,916,236
3) I Can Only Imagine RAtt. $13,837,495 Total: $38,316,986
4) Sherlock Gnomes Par. $10,600,000
5) Tomb Raider WB $10,430,000 Total: $41,748,108
6) A Wrinkle in Time BV $8,044,000 Total: $73,886,607
7) Love, Simon Fox $7,800,000 Total: $23,695,601
8) Paul, Apostle of Christ Sony $5,000,000
9) Game Night WB (NL) $4,160,000 Total: $60,813,535
10) Midnight Sun ORF $4,119,000
11) Unsane BST $3,858,418
12) Peter Rabbit Sony $2,500,000 Total: $106,766,715