“Monsters University” opens at No.1 in the world

By: Josh Abraham

Monsters University opens at No.1 in the world with a weekend estimated gross of $136.5 million from 36 markets. Man of Steel is the No.1 film internationally with an estimated weekend of $89.0 million, worldwide weekend of $130.2 million from 53 markets and a new worldwide cume of $398.3 million. 

World War Z opens to $111.8 million from 26 markets for the third film producing over $100 million this weekend at the worldwide box office.

The top-12 domestic weekend box office estimates listed in descending order, per data collected as of Sunday, June 23, 2013 are below.

Monsters University – Disney – $82.0M
World War Z – Paramount – $66.0M
Man Of Steel – Warner Bros. – $41.2M
This Is The End – Sony – $13.0M
Now You See Me – Lionsgate – $7.9M
Fast & Furious 6 – Universal – $4.7M
Internship, The – 20th Century Fox – $3.4M
Purge, The – Universal – $3.4M
Star Trek Into Darkness – Paramount – $3.0M
Iron Man 3 – Disney – $2.2M
Bling Ring, The – A24 Films – $2.0M
Epic – 20th Century Fox – $1.7M

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