This week Roland Emmerich takes his sequel Independence Day Resurgence to the top of the global box office on its debut week of release.

The sequel to 1996's Independence Day took $143.7 million from the week lead by the likes of Mexico and Taiwan.

In total the film was released in 58 countries and the one place it didn't manage to it the top was North America where is was beaten by Finding Dory.

On the global stage Finding Dory fell to number 2 with a global gross of $110.2 million from 38 countries, 20 less than Resurgence.

The film is still playing strong in North America but is yet to open in some key territories including most of Europe.

The Pixar and Disney film total global gross is now sitting at $396.8 million, the one billion mark is surely a reachable target? Also new this week is The Shallows which makes a debut at number 7 with $16.7 million from a single territory, North America.<> Highest total grossing film on the world box office is Warcraft which has now grossed $412.1 million during its run.

Here is this weeks world grossing top 5

1. Independence Day: Resurgence - $143,700,000
2. Finding Dory - $110,234,746
3. Now You See Me 2 - $56,550,000
4. The Conjuring 2 The Enfield Case - $28,705,000
5. Central Intelligence - $23,070,000