Warner Bros. are finally enjoying the kind of box office figures for a superhero movie that Disney and Marvel have enjoyed in recent years and the DC Universe origin movie holds the top spot with a Christmas weekend gross of $51 million.
This boosts the films total US gross to $188.7 million after 2 weeks of release, and gives hope a little hope to the DC Universe of movies.
Sitting pretty at number 2 is Disney's sequel movie which takes a very reasonable $28 million over the weekend which boosts its total gross to just under $100 million, it will reach this milestone next week.
The Transformers origin movie takes third place again this week with a weekend gross of $20 million which boosts the critically praised film to $66.7 million after 2 weeks.
The hit animation based on the Spider-Man comics drops to 4 this week and takes $18 million to push the film over the 100 million mark with $103 million after 3 weeks of release.
Finishing off the top 5 in the US this week is Clint Eastwoods latest film which takes $11.7 million boosting its US total to $60 million.
Opening on Christmas day the critically acclaimed potential Oscar movie was the highest new film of the week at 6 with a debut of $7.8 million.
Also opening on Christmas day this critically panned film makes its debut at 7 with $7.3 million.
