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Mamma Mia! (film) with an international total of $458.4 million and the thirteenth highest gross of 2008 in North America (the US and Canada) with $144.1 million. The film made $9.6 million in its opening day in the United States and Canada, and $27.6 million in its opening weekend, ranking #2 at the box office, behind "The Dark Knight". At the time, it made "Mamma Mia!" the record-holder for the highest grossing opening weekend for a movie based on a Broadway musical, surpassing "Hairspray"'s box office record in 2007 and later surpassed by "Into the Woods". On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an