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At the world box office this week Batman V Superman Dawn Of Justice retained its lead for a second weekend with a weekly gross of $137.4.<p class='news-item-font'>

The film has a massively wide release of 68 countries, althoug not the highest on the chart, that goes to The Divergent Series Allegiant which is released in 80 countries.<p class='news-item-font'>

Batman V Superman has now taken $682.8 million after its 2 weeks of release, the film may struggle to get to $1 billion as this is quite a hefty drop from last week.<p class='news-item-font'>

Highest new film on the world box office is The Bodyguard, not the 1992 film with Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner but a Hong Kong Chinese film directed by Sammo Hung.<p class='news-item-font'>

The film makes its debut at number number 3 with $25 million from the 6 countries its released in.<p class='news-item-font'>

highest total grossing film on the box office this week is Zootopia, at number 2 this week with an incredible $787.6 million.<p class='news-item-font'>

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<li>Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice - $137,485,000
<li>Zootopia - $50,000,000
<li>The Bodyguard - $25,000,000
<li>Kung Fu Panda 3 - $19,720,000
<li>Chongqing Hot Pot - $19,197,000
<li>My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 - $16,725,460
<li>Divergent Series Allegiant - $10,025,000
<li>Who Sleeps My Bro - $10,000,000
<li>Miracles From Heaven - $9,850,000
<li>10 Cloverfield Lane - $9,350,000
</ol><h3>This weeks top 10 World Box Office films</h3><ol class='medium'>