Batman v Superman’ earns a thumping $424 million worldwide in its gap weekend.

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WHEN SUPERMAN will battle with capture baddies in his new film, he flaunts that he’s totally bulletproof.

Now his director, Zack Snyder, has apparently armored the new “Batman v Superman” as totally critic-proof.

Snyder’s “Man of Steel” sequel ignored the mixed-to-negative reviews on the way to earning $170.1 million domestically over the Easter weekend, in line with studio estimates Sunday — smack inside the vary of expectations. (Final numbers square measure due Monday.)

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“Batman v Superman” additionally grossed a thumping $424.1 million worldwide, the largest gap for a superhero film, although that’s not accounting for inflation, because the $381.7 million deem “Spider-Man 3″ in 2007 is $436.5 in today’s bucks. Savvily, Warner Bros./DC opened the film at the same time in each major foreign market. “Batman v Superman” additionally set the North yank record for the largest March gap ever.

“Dawn of Justice” presently encompasses a lowly critic-average rating of forty four at Metacritic and a far-less-than-fresh twenty nine at Rotten Tomatoes. however audiences square measure additional forgiving: The user score at Metacritic is seven.3, and therefore the filmgoer Cinema Score could be a B.

Two-thirds of the audience was male, and nearly identical share was between eighteen and thirty four years previous, in line with selection.

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The bottom line is that this $250 million bet by Warner Bros. seems up to now to possess paid off because the launch area for a connected DC medium universe, within the mould of Marvel’s Avengers films. “Batman v Superman” additionally introduces adult female (Gal Gadot), WHO is scheduled  to urge a solo film next year, and provides the runway for 2 planned Justice League films.

Elsewhere this weekend, past champ “Zootopia” grossed $23.1 million to land in second place, boosting the Walter Elias Disney Animation flick to almost a quarter-billion domestically. Finishing third was Universal’s panned sequel, “My huge Fat Greek Wedding 2″ ($18.1 million).