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News: March 25-27 Weekend Box Office Numbers

by Ken Miyamoto on March 27, 2016

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice fought the good fight and ruled international and domestic box office this past weekend, bringing home an estimated $424.1 million worldwide. With an estimated $170.1 million domestic, Batman v Superman topped the March opening weekend record previously held by The Hunger Games at $152.5 million. If the estimates hold, this also tops the $169.1 million Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 opened with in 2011, making it the largest domestic opening for Warner Brothers. The film also captured the largest Easter opening beating the $147.1 million brought in by Furious 7 last year and is now the largest opening for a film based on a DC Comics property, a record previously held by The Dark Knight Rises at $160.8 million.

Despite negative critical reviews and a 29% rating on RottenTomatoes, the film opened strong. No other film with a rating lower than 63% on the site had ever opened over $150 million. The second and third weekend numbers will be interesting to follow.

Comparing it to other such films, a second weekend drop around 62% is likely and anything better than 60% would show the film is holding well.

The film brought in an estimated $254 million internationally this weekend, giving it the fifth largest international opening weekend of all-time. The global opening of $424.1 million is the fourth largest of all-time.

Zootopia continues to shine as the Disney animated flick dropped only 37.7% this weekend, taking second place with $23.1 million domestically. Internationally the film added another $42.5 million as its worldwide cume now stands just shy of $700 million at $696.7 million.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 came in third with an estimated $18.1 million.

Batman v. Superman should have some easy staying power with no big releases coming out next weekend. Pure Flix's God's Not Dead 2 and Richard Linklater's Everybody Wants Some!! Sony Classics will release Don Cheadle's Miles Ahead and Freestyle will release Meet the Blacks in approximately 1,000 theaters.

1 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice $170,100,000 ($170,100,000)
2 Zootopia $23,138,000 ($240,547,409)
3 My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 $18,120,000 ($18,120,000)
4 Miracles from Heaven $9,500,000 ($34,127,249)
5 The Divergent Series: Allegiant $9,500,000 ($46,605,496)
6 10 Cloverfield Lane $6,000,000 ($56,010,797)
7 Deadpool $5,000,000 ($349,472,050)
8 London Has Fallen $2,926,000 ($55,614,857)
9 Hello, My Name is Doris $1,700,925 ($3,268,689)
10 Eye in the Sky $1,001,204 ($1,723,311)

Source: Box Office Mojo

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