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Movie Monday: It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s ‘Superman’

The ‘S’ on Superman’s chest might stand for his name or his family crest or hope. But at the box office, it stands for success.

Pow! James Gunn’s DC reboot film, Superman, saved $122 million at the domestic box office in its opening weekend. Whack! That’s on top of another $95 million internationally. Bam! And that leaves the symbol of peace at $217 million worldwide. Not a bad salary for a newspaper reporter.

The rest of our list follows exactly as it did last week: Jurassic World Rebirth hatched an additional $40 million this weekend. It’s good enough for second place, and it brings its worldwide total to $529.5 million.

Crossing the checkered line in third is F1® The Movie with $13 million. But don’t count that lower domestic number out, since the movie is earning far more overseas. As of today, it’s taken in $257.2 million internationally, which accounts for 65.4% of its total earnings. Its worldwide cume is $393.4 million.

That shifts How to Train Your Dragon down to fourth this week. It gobbled $7.8 million in its fifth weekend since release, which brings its, ahem, Universal gross to $560.7 million.

And, speaking of universal, Elio finished out the weekend in fifth place, abducting an additional $3.9 million for its galactic pockets. That brings its total gross to $117.3 million.

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Kennedy Unthank

Kennedy Unthank studied journalism at the University of Missouri. He knew he wanted to write for a living when he won a contest for “best fantasy story” while in the 4th grade. What he didn’t know at the time, however, was that he was the only person to submit a story. Regardless, the seed was planted. Kennedy collects and plays board games in his free time, and he loves to talk about biblical apologetics. He’s also an avid cook. He thinks the ending of Lost “wasn’t that bad.”

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