It may have been knocked from the top of the domestic box office by Melissa McCarthy’s latest film The Boss, but Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice has overtaken the worldwide haul of 20th Century Fox’s Deadpool this weekend, having grossed $783.5 million compared to the Merc with a Mouth’s $758.8 million.
Despite coming out on top globally, it remains to be seen whether Batman v Superman will surpass the X-Men spinoff in North America, where it would need to make another $62 million to catch Deadpool’s whopping $358 million haul.
Batman v Superman has also climbed above The Amazing Spider-Man ($757.9 million) and Guardians of the Galaxy ($773.3 million) to become the ninth-highest grossing superhero movie of all time, and is only $300,000 shy of catching Spider-Man 2 to climb to eighth.
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Originally published April 10, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
