'Wonder Woman' just keeps smashing all kinds of records
Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman continues to trail-blaze through history, and Jenkins is well on her way to shattering another record.
As of Wednesday, Wonder Woman had earned over $600 million at the box office worldwide, and it is on track to become the top-grossing female directed live-action film ever.
The current holder of that record, Phyllida Lloyd's Mama Mia! (2008), grossed $609.8 million worldwide, and Wonder Woman is expected to exceed that amount sometime Thursday or Friday.
That's not all — the film could also feasibly surpass Kung Fu Panda 2, directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson (which raked in $665.7 million at the box office). Panda holds the title for top-grossing film of all time from a female filmmaker with solo directing duties.
Try saying that one five times fast.
This isn't the first record Jenkins has smashed with Wonder Woman. The film, which stars Gal Gadot, had the largest-ever opening weekend for a female-directed film, raking in over $100 million.
In terms of becoming the top-grossing female-directed film of all time, however, Wonder Woman has a ways to go. That title is comfortably held by Jennifer Lee and Chris Bruck's Frozen (2013), which made $1.28 billion at the box office worldwide.
But hey, topping $600 million is certainly nothing to sneeze at! Congrats to Wonder Woman for making women everywhere feel like superheroes.
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Maggie was a Real Time News Intern in Mashable's Los Angeles office. She is originally from the suburbs of Chicago, and she is currently studying journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She previously freelanced for the Chicago Tribune, and enjoys petting dogs and drawing pictures in her spare time.
