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'Wonder Woman' Smashes Domestic Box Office Record For Female Directors

As the first woman to direct a big-budget superhero movie, Patty Jenkins says she felt extra pressure to succeed. Her movie grossed more than $100 million in its opening weekend.
Gal Gadot plays the titular superhero in <em>Wonder Woman, </em>which just broke the opening-weekend domestic box office record for a film directed by a woman.

Wonder Woman was a box office smash on its opening weekend, raking in more than $100 million domestically — a new record for a movie directed by a woman.

Deadline that the final tally for the film was

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