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World Box Office Analysis Weekend 1st - 3rd March 2019: Dragon 3 goes to the top of the global box office while Madea is highest new film

World Box Office Analysis Weekend 1st - 3rd March 2019:  Dragon 3 goes to the top of the global box office while Madea is highest new film
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
How to Train Your Dragon 3 goes to the top of the world box office after a good week in China and America while Tyler Perry's Madea is the top new film.

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How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

The Dragon threequel hits the top of the chart this week with a weekend gross of $82 million from 62 countries, led by China where the film opened to $13.7 million.

The animated featuer has now taken $375.3 million globally.

Alita: Battle Angel

The manga movie directed by Robert Rodriguez is at two this week with a weekend gross $47.4 million from 82 countries, the widest release this weekend.

This pushes the films total global gross to $350.4 million.

Green Book

Oscar success has given this film a push at the box office and sits this week at 3 with a weekend gross of $36.6 million from 64 countries.

This pushed the Best Film winner to a total gross of $188 million.

A Madea Family Funeral

Tyler Perry brings his most successful creation back to the cinema and the film lands at number 4 this week with a weekend gross of $27.1 million from just 5 countries.

$27.05 million of this is from the American market alone where the actor is most famous.

The Wandering Earth

The Chinese mega hit falls to 5 this week with $14.8 million from a single country which pushes its total global gross to an amazing $673 million.

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