Batman V Superman Passes Deadpool, Guardians of the Galaxy At the Global Box Office

After having already passed Man of Steel at the global box office thanks to huge international numbers, Zack Snyder's Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice also managed to blow past Fox/Marvel's Deadpool this weekend.

At the domestic box office, two consecutive weeks of significant drops for Batman V Superman has many forecasters thinking that Deadpool's stratospheric $380 million at the domestic box office might be out of reach for the DC team-up epic, but a massive opening weekend and the popularity of Superman and Batman as global entertainment icons have given the film almost $500 million internationally already. That, with its current $296 at the North American box office, tallies up to $783,485,542 -- about $28 million more than Deadpool has made around the world.

After surpassing Deadpool's $755 million, Batman V Superman also passed The Amazing Spider-Man ($758M), Guardians of the Galaxy ($773M), and the original Star Wars ($775M).

In passing Man of Steel's domestic total, Batman V Superman becomes the highest-grossing Superman film on record, but it's unlikely to touch The Dark Knight or The Dark Knight Rises, both of which grossed over $1 billion globally. Current estimates are that the movie will make between $800 million and $1 billion at the global box office.

If the weekend's numbers are adjusted upwards, the film could also have passed Spider-Man 2, which is currently sitting just above Batman V Superman with $783.8 million. If the numbers stay more or less the same, it will almost certainly cross that number tomorrow.

The film reportedly cost about $400 million to make between its production budget and its marketing budget, so it's long been said that the studio was hoping for close to $1 billion worldwide from Batman V Superman, but that it would take only about $800 million to make the film technically profitable. It's not considered likely to reach the $1 billion mark, but the odds are good that the film will cross $800 million around midweek, and that by the end of next weekend it will be right around the $821 million at the global box office that Spider-Man made.

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Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice is now playing in theaters.