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World Box Office Chart Weekending 3rd April 2016: Batman and Superman stay on top

World Box Office Chart Weekending 3rd April 2016:  Batman and Superman stay on top
Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice
At the world box office this week Batman V Superman Dawn Of Justice retained its lead for a second weekend with a weekly gross of $137.4.

The film has a massively wide release of 68 countries, althoug not the highest on the chart, that goes to The Divergent Series Allegiant which is released in 80 countries.

Batman V Superman has now taken $682.8 million after its 2 weeks of release, the film may struggle to get to $1 billion as this is quite a hefty drop from last week.

Highest new film on the world box office is The Bodyguard, not the 1992 film with Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner but a Hong Kong Chinese film directed by Sammo Hung.

The film makes its debut at number number 3 with $25 million from the 6 countries its released in.

highest total grossing film on the box office this week is Zootopia, at number 2 this week with an incredible $787.6 million.

Here is the full world top 10 for this week.

  1. Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice - $137,485,000
  2. Zootopia - $50,000,000
  3. The Bodyguard - $25,000,000
  4. Kung Fu Panda 3 - $19,720,000
  5. Chongqing Hot Pot - $19,197,000
  6. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 - $16,725,460
  7. Divergent Series Allegiant - $10,025,000
  8. Who Sleeps My Bro - $10,000,000
  9. Miracles From Heaven - $9,850,000
  10. 10 Cloverfield Lane - $9,350,000
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