'Battleship' Sunk By 'Avengers' At Weekend Box Office

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[url="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1685470/avengers-battleship-box-office.jhtml"][b]FROM MTV NEWS[/b][/url]: "You sunk my Battleship!" is not a line you'll hear in [url="http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2012/05/18/you-sunk-my-battleship/"]Peter Berg's big-screen adaptation[/url] of the Hasbro board game ("They [i]don't[/i] sink our battleship," he reasoned when MTV News recently brought up the topic), but perhaps it's a phrase Universal execs are shouting in the general direction of "[url="http://www.mtv.com/movies/movie/390422/moviemain.jhtml"]The Avengers[/url]" this morning.

Earth's mightiest heroes once again stand tall at the top of the box office pile, smiling down on a domestic weekend tally worth $55.1 million and a worldwide total of $1.2 billion. As it stands, Marvel's superhero flick is the fourth highest-grossing film of all time, and is well on track to beat "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" for third place. Meanwhile, after raking in only $25.3 million in its debut, "[url="http://www.mtv.com/movies/movie/435857/moviemain.jhtml"]Battleship[/url]" is left languishing in the water. On the bright side for the Universal action flick, the movie already made $226 million worldwide, softening the blow of an otherwise disappointing domestic debut.

[url="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1685470/avengers-battleship-box-office.jhtml"][b]Get more box office updates over at MTV News[/b][/url].



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