Avengers crosses $ 1 billion mark

MUMBAI: After taking a $200 million opening, Disney and Marvel‘s The Avengers has recorded a $100 million-plus second weekend.

The superhero tale took in $103.1 million to cling onto the No. 1 position and lift its domestic take to $373.1 million in just 10 days. With nearly $630 million more overseas, The Avengers raised its worldwide total to just over $1 billion.
 
Johnny Depp and Tim Burton‘s latest collaboration, the vampire romp Dark Shadows opened a distant second with $29.7 million domestically.
 
The top 20 movies at US and Canadian theatres from Friday through Sunday last followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theatre locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release.