Wonder Woman is now officially in theaters, and it has already broken one box office record.
Last night’s $11 million haul for the Wonder Woman Thursday night screenings bested the $8.6M of Fifty Shades Of Grey, giving Patty Jenkins the best preview night ever by a female director.
It’s also expected that Wonder Woman will pass Fifty Shades Of Grey’s opening weekend of $85.1M, which would also give Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins the best opening weekend by a female director.
Wonder Woman is expected to open around $86-90 million, which is similar to Marvel’s Doctor Strange ($85M) and Guardians of the Galaxy ($94.3M) movies.
Wonder Woman currently has a 93% Fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes with 208 positive reviews and only 15 negative. Likewise, 93% of the audience stated they liked the movie.
There is also talks of Wonder Woman 2 already having been green lit.
“Wonder Woman” has a June 2, 2017 release directed by Patty Jenkins starring Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright, Connie Nielsen, David Thewlis, Danny Huston, Elena Anaya, Ewen Bremner, and Saïd Taghmaoui .
Synopsis:
Wonder Woman hits movie theaters around the world next summer when Gal Gadot returns as the title character in the epic action adventure from director Patty Jenkins. Before she was Wonder Woman, she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained to be an unconquerable warrior. Raised on a sheltered island paradise, when an American pilot crashes on their shores and tells of a massive conflict raging in the outside world, Diana leaves her home, convinced she can stop the threat. Fighting alongside man in a war to end all wars, Diana will discover her full powers…and her true destiny.
