Wonder Woman earned $100.5m in its first weekend at the box office, breaking the record for a woman director and taking in $223m worldwide. Patty Jenkins's only previous feature film was the very different Monster, an award-winning biopic of serial killer Aileen Wournos. Critics say Wonder Woman is also the first DC universe movie that isn't a grim, tedious trudge through the dark end of superhero fandom.
Wonder Woman smashes box office records
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Drown out the nonsense with these true wireless earbuds
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This day/night home camera doubles and triples as a dash or body cam
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