Step aside,?????? ??????? ???????? Tony Stark -- just as we predicted, Wonder Womanwill land in the Top 5 highest-earning superhero movies of all time at the domestic box office. And it'll go down over the holiday weekend, passing Iron Man 3and settling in behind The Dark Knight Rises, probably sometime mid-Monday.
Wonder Womanhad earned $408.939 million in North America as of Sunday, according to estimates from comScore. That put Diana Prince short of Iron Man 3by a paltry $75,000 -- a figure Wonder Womanwill easily eclipse on Labor Day, and possibly before.
SEE ALSO: These Joker movie rumors can go to hell, Leonardo DiCaprio would NEVERThere's no way Wonder Womancan get up to No. 4 The Dark Knight Rises($448 million), what with the home video release coming in mid-September. But a Top 5 finish is still quite a feat, considering that Wonder Womanopened at $103 million, while the four films above it all opened at $160 million or higher.
Wonder Woman had unheard-of staying power
Translation: Wonder Womanhad unheard-of staying power, dropping an average of 33% week over week through its 13-plus weeks of release. Also as we predicted, Warner Bros. staged a special engagement in IMAX to boost earnings in Week 13, taking advantage of the lack of August offerings by putting Wonder Womanin 2,210 theaters.
It isn't official-official yet, but as of Monday, your new superhero Top 5 will look something like this:
Marvel's The Avengers: $623.3 million
The Dark Knight: $534.8 million
Avengers: Age of Ultron: $459 million
The Dark Knight Rises: $448.1 million
Wonder Woman: $409+ million
Interesting side-note: Wonder Woman's entry into that group shifts the balance of top 5 all-time domestic superhero films from Marvel to DC, which now has three of those spots (though Marvel still has 7 of the top 10, if you count Spidey films).
But that imbalance could be in jeopardy, too -- with Gal Gadot's take on Wonder Woman as popular as she is, Justice Leagueright around the corner, and a Wonder Womansequel coming before you know it, the DCEU may have finally found its stride.
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