[ti:'Black Panther' Breaks Twitter Record] [by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM [00:00.20]This is What's Trending... [00:03.76]The superhero movie Black Panther [00:07.08]has already broken records at the box office. [00:11.56]Now, it has broken a record on Twitter, too. [00:16.40]The social media company says Black Panther [00:20.17]is officially the most-tweeted-about movie ever. [00:25.78]Twitter said this week that the film [00:28.64]has been tweeted about more than 35 million times. [00:34.48]That pushes it ahead of the earlier record-holder, [00:39.32]Star Wars: The Force Awakens. [00:42.56]The most recent Star Wars film, The Last Jedi, is third. [00:48.84]Twitter said Black Panther had the most tweets in the United States, [00:55.16]followed by Britain and Thailand. [00:59.36]Over the weekend, the Marvel Studios film [01:02.84]was the top-earning movie in North America for the fifth straight weekend. [01:09.92]It has earned more than $607 million in the United States [01:16.68]and almost $1.2 billion worldwide since its release in February. [01:25.48]In the next week, observers expect Black Panther [01:29.80]will pass The Avengers as the highest-earning superhero film in history. [01:37.40]Twitter says the most commonly used hashtags about the film [01:42.24]are #BlackPanther, #Wakanda and #WakandaForever. [01:51.08]Michelle Obama wrote one of the most-shared Black Panther tweets. [01:56.72]The former first lady wrote, [01:59.12]"Congrats to the entire #blackpanther team! [02:03.00]Because of you, young people will finally see superheroes [02:07.96]that look like them on the big screen." [02:11.40]Her post has been shared more than 140,000 times. [02:17.92]Black Panther tells the story of an imaginary African nation called Wakanda. [02:25.36]It is the home of the Black Panther himself, Prince T'Challa. [02:31.08]In the film, Wakanda is a developed, highly technological country. [02:36.92]It is both extremely modern and deeply traditional. [02:41.72]It has never belonged to a foreign power. [02:45.96]Black Panther is the 18th Marvel Comics film. [02:51.08]It is based on comic book stories created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1966. [03:00.96]Black Panther's director, Ryan Coogler, [03:04.32]is Marvel Studios' youngest-ever movie maker. [03:09.24]And that's What's Trending Today... [03:11.48]I'm Ashley Thompson. [03:12.92]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM