Originally published July 19, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.
DC’s Wonder Woman is set to tick off more achievements and become the biggest summer movie of 2017 domestically.
Having already become one of the biggest films of the year, and taking fifth place in the highest grossing action heroine movies of all time, Wonder Woman should be passing Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 any day now.
Currently clocking in at $381 million in the U.S., the superhero movie is only $5 million behind the Marvel sci-fi sequel which sits at $386 million – an incredibly successful movie in its own right.
Slipping past Guardians will make Wonder Woman the summer’s biggest movie but it is still quite some way off the year’s number one movie overall. Beauty and the Beast claims that particular spot, having accumulated $504 million.
Globally, Wonder Woman is sitting in fourth place in the year’s highest grossing films, behind Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Fate of the Furious, and Beauty and the Beast.
Just where it will sit in the pecking order come the year’s end will remain to be seen, but with some substantial titles still to arrive there will surely be some significant moves made.
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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.
Wonder Woman sees Patty Jenkins (Monster) directing a cast that includes Gal Gadot (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice), Chris Pine (Star Trek), Connie Nielsen (Gladiator), Robin Wright (House of Cards), Danny Huston (X-Men Origins: Wolverine), David Thewlis (The Theory of Everything), Ewen Bremner (Snowpiercer), Said Taghmaoui (American Hustle), Elena Anaya (The Skin I Live In), Lisa Loven Kongsli (Force Majeure), Lucy Davis (Shaun of the Dead) and Ann Wolf.
