Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 Nearing $500 Million Global Box Office

05/08/2017 11:18 am EDT

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 has conquered the globe.

After two weeks at the global box office Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 has earned $282.6 million internationally. Combined with the film's $145 million domestic opening weekend, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 has now earned $472.6 million worldwide, well on its way to reaching the $500 million mark.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 was produced with an estimated budget of $200 million. The film is set to push the Marvel Cinematic Universe's total box office gross to over $11 billion over the course of 15 movies since Iron Man released in 2008. Marvel's The Avengers remains the universe's biggest hit with a global lifetime total of $1.5 billion. Iron Man 3, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Captain America: Civil War each also crossed the $1 billion mark globally.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 made over $106 million internationally in its first weekend at the box office. It made roughly $124 million in its second weekend internationally, after opening major markets like China, Russia, and Korea. It's biggest takes came from China with $48 million, the United Kingdom with $35.7 million, Germany with $18.4 million, Australia with $17.2 million, and France with $16.1 million.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is off to a strong start. Fans will wait and see where it ends up at the box office in relation to its Marvel Studios brethren.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 currently has an 87.79 ComicBook.com Composite Score, the third-highest ComicBook.com Composite Score for a comic book movie of all time. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 also has a 4.65 out of 5 ComicBook.com User Rating, giving it the highest ComicBook.com user rating among all comic book movies. Let us know what you thought of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 by giving it your own ComicBook.com user rating below.

Set to the backdrop of 'Awesome Mixtape #2,' Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 continues the team's adventures as they traverse the outer reaches of the cosmos. The Guardians must fight to keep their newfound family together as they unravel the mysteries of Peter Quill's true parentage. Old foes become new allies and fan-favorite characters from the classic comics will come to our heroes' aid as the Marvel cinematic universe continues to expand.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is written and directed by James Gunn and stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, Elizabeth Debicki, Chris Sullivan, Sean Gunn, Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is now playing in theaters.

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