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MAN OF STEEL Has Super Opening Weekend
Hail the conquering box-office hero.
Warner Bros. Pictures’ MAN OF STEEL opened at No. 1 worldwide with an estimated weekend gross of $184.7 million from only 25 markets, with a worldwide haul of $194.7 million. FAST & FURIOUS 6 continues to speed through the summer and has surpassed $400 million internationally while THE HANGOVER 3 and STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS have both exceeded $200 million globally this weekend.
Sony’s R-rated comedy, THIS IS THE END, made a domestic bow at No. 2 with $20.5 million. Released mid week on June 12, the Seth Rogen, James Franco, Jonah Hill apocalyptic film was generally well received by critics and is holding at 68 on MetaCritic and 85% over at Rotten Tomatoes.
Here are the top-12 domestic weekend box office estimates:
- Man Of Steel – Warner Bros. – $113.1M
- This Is The End – Sony – $20.5M
- Now You See Me – Lionsgate – $10.3M
- Fast & Furious 6 – Universal – $9.4M
- Purge, The – Universal – $8.2M
- Internship, The – 20th Century Fox – $7.0M
- Epic – 20th Century Fox – $6.0M
- Star Trek Into Darkness – Paramount – $5.7M
- After Earth – Sony – $3.8M
- Iron Man 3 – Disney – $2.9M
- Hangover 3, The – Warner Bros. – $2.7M
- Great Gatsby, The – Warner Bros. – $1.6M
| Weekend BO Estimate (USD) | Weekend Release Cume (USD) | ||||||||
| Title | Worldwide | Int’l | Domestic | Worldwide | Int’l | Dom | |||
| Man Of Steel | 184,680,000 | 71,600,000 | 113,080,000 | 196,680,000 | 71,600,000 | 125,080,000 | |||
| Fast & Furious 6 | 29,433,125 | 20,000,000 | 9,433,125 | 636,873,750 | 417,300,000 | 219,573,750 | |||
| After Earth | 27,750,000 | 24,000,000 | 3,750,000 | 145,314,015 | 91,100,000 | 54,214,015 | |||
| Now You See Me | 25,920,000 | 15,600,000 | 10,320,000 | 107,709,443 | 27,700,000 | 80,009,443 | |||
| ST Into Darkness | 22,660,000 | 17,000,000 | 5,660,000 | 412,190,694 | 201,700,000 | 210,490,694 | |||
| This Is The End | 20,500,000 | – | 20,500,000 | 32,808,135 | – | 32,808,135 | |||
| Hangover 3, The | 20,235,000 | 17,500,000 | 2,735,000 | 309,785,552 | 201,800,000 | 107,985,552 | |||
| Epic | 14,100,000 | 8,100,000 | 6,000,000 | 214,528,623 | 119,100,000 | 95,428,623 | |||
| Internship, The | 12,100,000 | 5,100,000 | 7,000,000 | 36,051,361 | 5,100,000 | 30,951,361 | |||
| Great Gatsby, The | 11,505,000 | 9,900,000 | 1,605,000 | 300,208,541 | 160,300,000 | 139,908,541 | |||
| Purge, The | 10,600,515 | 2,400,000 | 8,200,515 | 58,545,365 | 6,700,000 | 51,845,365 | |||
| Secretly Greatly | 8,000,000 | 8,000,000 | – | 30,000,000 | 30,000,000 | – | |||
| Iron Man 3 | 3,908,000 | 1,000,000 | 2,908,000 | 1,203,410,000 | 803,800,000 | 399,610,000 | |||
| © Rentrak | |||||||||
Next weekend, Superman will go up against Monsters and Zombies when both the G-rated MONSTERS UNIVERSITY and Brad Pitt’s PG-13 WORLD WAR Z open on June 21st.
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