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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

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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.

This weeks top 10 World Box Office films

  1. Captain Marvel - $456,718,598
  2. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World - $82,046,000
  3. Alita: Battle Angel - $47,411,284
  4. Green Book - $36,611,000
  5. A Madea Family Funeral - $27,108,000
  6. The Wandering Earth - $14,864,000
  7. The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part - $12,715,000
  8. Natsumes Book of Friends: The Movie Ephemeral Bond - $10,364,000
  9. Happy Death Day 2U - $8,716,000
  10. Cold Pursuit - $7,514,000
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