'Battleship' Posts Disappointing Weekend, 'Avengers' Jumps To 4th Highest Gross Of All-Time
May 21st, 2012 2:03pm EDT
On Friday we forecasted that Battleship had no chance beating The Avengers over the weekend, but we had no idea the board game-turned-movie would debut so low.
Expected to make around $40 million its first three days, Battleship could only muster $25 million. A $209 million production budget and sizeable market spend
Meanwhile, Avengers continues to dominate the box office here in the United States and across the world. Domestically the film took in another $55 million, just over estimates. That puts its US total at $450 million, after only three weekends.
After worldwide figures are totaled in, The Avengers has made $1.18 billion! That places it fourth all-time, and it could overtake Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 by the end of next weekend. It still needs another billion to match Titanic, and even more than that to contest Avatar as the highest-grossing film of all-time.
The Dictator, Sascha Baron Cohen's latest comedy, took $17 million over the weekend - less than Borat or Bruno.
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