'Batman V Superman' Box Office

'Batman V Superman' Box Office: 'Dawn Of Justice At $468M Worldwide, Approaching $500M

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The overseas numbers for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice are in. The Warner Bros./Time Warner Inc. picture earned an additional $31 million overseas on Monday, bringing its foreign total to $287.5m thus far. And now along with the $181m domestic cume, the picture has earned $468.6m worldwide. Now that means that unless the picture utterly collapsed today, it presumably crossed $300m overseas and $500m worldwide today or tonight, but we’ll know on that score soon enough.

In terms of worldwide grosses, it’s already swiftly moving up the list of all-time grossers. To wit, that $468.6 million total already puts it at 173 on the all-time list. If I’m correct that today’s gross comes to around $506-$511m, it will be just past The Revenant ($506m) . Otherwise, it will have to suffice for being just ahead of Ghost ($505.7m), Aladdin ($504m), or Rio 2 ($500m). But it’ll be all-but-certainly be in the top 150 by the end of today. Beyond that, let’s take a look at how the film is comparing to its comic book/superhero movie ilk.

Regarding comic book/superhero movies, it is already past $441 million global gross of Men in Black 2, Paramount/Viacom Inc.’s Thor ($449m) and every one of Fox’s X-Men movies except for X-Men: Days of Future Past and Deadpool. It’ll surpass Paramount’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ($491m) and Walt Disney’s Ant-Man ($519m) pretty quickly and move up the list over the weekend.

Regarding DC Comics movies, it’s already a bigger grosser than everything save Man of Steel ($668 million) and the last two Dark Knight sequels (over $1 billion a pop). Counting the likes of Sony’s Men in Black, Pixar’s The Incredibles, Sony’s Hancock, and Warner’s The Matrix Reloaded, it’s already among the top-30 comic book and/or superhero movies of all time worldwide. Obviously there are conversations about inflation and 3D bumps, but we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.
If these numbers stay consistent, we’re looking at around $35-$45 million a day worldwide for the next three days heading into the second weekend. That means, and this is spitball math here, a global total of around $575m-$605m global before the start of the second weekend. It could be smaller, it could be bigger, but those are the ballpark figures for the moment.

So yeah, that’s where we stand after four days of U.S. and six days of international play for Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.