'Wonder Woman' Ignores 'Spider-Man', Crosses $360 Million
Well, this is interesting. Despite losing 313 theaters and going head-to-head with
Spider-Man: Homecoming, Warner Bros./Time Warner Inc.’s
Wonder Woman didn't miss a beat. The Patty Jenkins-directed superhero flick earned another $2.94 million on Friday, which is a drop of just 33% from last Friday. That brings the film’s 36-day total to $361.59m. We’re looking at a sixth weekend of around $10m (-33%), for a new 38-day total of $369m. That will push the Gal Gadot/Chris Pine actioner past the likes of
The Jungle Book,
The Secret Life of Pets and
Deadpool.
So, as of this afternoon,
Wonder Woman will become the biggest domestic grosser not released by Walt Disney or Universal/Comcast Corp. since Lionsgate’s
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire back in November of 2013. It will also be, not adjusted for inflation, the second-biggest superhero origin story/non-sequel ever behind Sam Raimi’s original
Spider-Man way back in 2002. In terms of tickets sold, it still trails
Deadpool and
Iron Man and won’t get anywhere near
Superman,
Batman or
Spider-Man, but it’s still a potent achievement. It will also be the second-biggest superhero movie ever sans Batman, Iron Man or Spider-Man.
The biggest, in North America, remains for the moment
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, which should end the weekend with $385 million as it winds up its domestic run. And yeah, on this day, day 37,
Wonder Woman will pass the
Guardians 2 in terms of comparative cumulative total. The DC Films offering has been making more on a day-to-day basis for a while, but now it has made up the $43m opening weekend gap and will have made more in 37 days ($365m+) than
Guardians 2 ($364m). So, barring a fluke, it looks like
Wonder Woman will be the biggest domestic earner of the summer unless
Spider-Man: Homecoming plays spoiler.
I don’t have overseas updates past Tuesday, but the $150 million-budgeted film now has at least $735m worldwide. It may cross the $750m mark tomorrow and will soon be past the likes of
The Matrix Reloaded ($742m in 2003),
Suicide Squad ($745m),
Maleficent ($758m),
The Amazing Spider-Man ($757m) and
X-Men: Days of Future Past ($747m). By the way, once it tops the second
Matrix movie, it will be Warner Bros.’ second-biggest global grosser not involving Batman or J.K. Rowling after Chris Nolan’s
Inception ($821m in 2010 sans 3D). In terms of domestic booty, it’s already Warner Bros.’ fourth-biggest grosser behind
Harry Potter 7.2 ($381m),
The Dark Knight Rises ($448m) and
The Dark Knight ($534m).
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2017/07/08/box-office-wonder-woman-ignores-spider-man-crosses-360-million/#1727fa682ebe