MUMBAI: The third installment in the ‘Ironman‘ franchise which released in the US this weekend has made $175.3 million. This is the second best opening for any film in the US.
 
Globally it was released in some markets earlier and has made a little over half a billion dollars making it total $680.1 million thus far.

The film with the highest opening in the US is again a Marvel film. Last year ‘The Avengers‘ which featured Ironman as part of the ensemble made $207.4 million dollars over its first three days.
 
As far as the rest of the US box office is concerned over the weekend ‘Pain and Gain‘ made $7.6 million, ‘42‘ made $6.2 million and the science fiction film ‘Oblivion‘ with Tom Cruise made 5.8 million.