Wonder Woman is a box office giant
The numbers are in for Wonder Woman’s first weekend, and they’re even bigger than the projections.
With $100.5 million in North America and an additional $122.5 million internationally, Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman can boast the biggest-ever opening weekend for a film directed by a woman, Variety reports. With a budget of $150 million (which it has already more than recouped), Wonder Woman was already the most expensive film ever directed by a woman.
Wonder Woman unseats Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Fifty Shades of Grey, which nabbed the record in February 2015, opening to a domestic take of $81.7 million. Before that, the record belonged to Catherine Hardwicke’s Twilight (2008), which brought in $69.6 million in the crucial first three days.
