The Warner Bros.' $225 million dollar franchise reboot Man of Steel has become a box office behemoth.

The superhero film, which premiered on Friday, began its run with a massive $125.1 million. $113.1 million over the traditional weekend and $12 million from corporate screening programs on Thursday. This broke the record for the biggest June opening weekend ever, ahead of Toy Story 3's impressive $110.3 million bow in 2010.

Among 2013 films thus far, Man of Steel had the second best debut of the year behind Iron Man 3, which started with $174.1 million in May.

Man of Steel earned a fantastic $29,731 per theater average from its 4,207 locations. The movie grossed $13.3 million in IMAX theaters, and 41% of its business came from 3D ticket sales.

According to studies ,audiences were 56 percent male and 44 percent female, a markedly more even gender distribution than Iron Man 3, which had a 61/39 percent male/female split on opening weekend.

Man of Steel also clobbered the debut of 2006′s Superman Returns, which opened with $52.5 million and earned $200 million domestically against a $270 million budget.

This is the first Superman movie in seven years and is already on its way to becoming the highest-grossing film featuring Clark Kent.

 "Superman Returns" started with $52.5 million in its opening weekend and went on to collect $200.1 million in the U.S. and Canada - just over 50% of the movie's final $391.1 million global tally.

Widely considered a box office misfire, Superman Returns did not, in fact, return. In about one week, Man of Steel will likely have surpassed that film's domestic total.

Check out the trailer for The Man of Steel HERE