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X-Men FC: Only $56 Million estimated for opening weekend.

^ I don't believe that was the point of T'Biao's post.

Again, this seems to be yet another case of fans jumping on a less than expected box office intake when really to be honest I don't think any one (other than perhaps Fox) was expecting a large intake. They screwed up the last two X-Men films. The overwhelming majority seem to like this one. Word of mouth perhaps will boost next weekend's intake and as RoJoHen pointed out this was really the first big week of summer. I know in Vancouver the hockey game had most people's attention...there were 80,000 people downtown watching it on big screens. The sun was out for freaking the first time in ages here, there was a lot to do. There is no need to be panicking about this yet.
 
Professor Zoom said:
Admiral_Young said:
There is no need to be panicking about this yet.
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Why should anyone but Fox panic?
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Indeed.

Obviously this isn't particularly good news for upcoming superhero movies like Green Lantern and Captain America - among the half-dozen unprovable hypotheses we could advance for the movie underperforming, at least one would be that the summer audience isn't nearly so in love with the superhero genre as the studios have come to believe. While doing respectable business, Thor has underperformed relative to other recent superhero movies too. The Iron Man and Batman films remain the recent high-water mark for this stuff.
 
Michael Ironside is like a jinx of any movie he is in, specially franchise relaunchers. First with T4 and now XM:FC. :lol:
 
Dream said:
X3 and Wolverine were horrible. I'm in no rush to let those people at FOX take anymore of my money.

Hell, I'm tempted to just skip FC.
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That would be a shame. It's quite good. I honestly thought it was the best X-Men film ever. As others have said, skipping it would punish the wrong people.
 
Agreed that $56 mil is above their expectations and really not a bad take in at all. I would rather have continued success from week to week rather than drop down after one big push. Bridesmaids did just over 12 million in 5th place. First Class did almost 5 times as much and that is considered bad? Where are the numbers for the $120 mil worldwide standing?

I agree maybe some have been burned by previous bad X-Men films, and the overflow of comic book movies in general, but considering all this recessionness I still think the film was a major success. Maybe Wolverine did more money, but the price of that is its universal panning. I would hope decent numbers and critical acclaim make TPTB for First Class happy.
 
KB24 said:
Agreed that $56 mil is above their expectations and really not a bad take in at all. I would rather have continued success from week to week rather than drop down after one big push. Bridesmaids did just over 12 million in 5th place. First Class did almost 5 times as much and that is considered bad? Where are the numbers for the $120 mil worldwide standing?
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Uh, yeah because this is the third weekend for Bridesmaids and opening week for FC.

Maybe Wolverine did more money, but the price of that is its universal panning. I would hope decent numbers and critical acclaim make TPTB for First Class happy.
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Wolverine made 85 million in its first weekend. FC made just about the same amount that the original X-Men made its opening weekend - eleven years worth of inflated ticket prices later. No, TPTB will not be happy with this. Good reviews and tepid box office don't feed the bulldog.
 
I think the amount FC made this weekend was expected. At least it didn't flop completely like Kung Fu Panda 2, a failure no one could have predicted. Before it was released people actually thought Panda would make as much as Shrek 2. :rommie:
 
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A 56 million opening weekend gets an "only" now?
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XM:FC ranks last among X-Men movies.

And when Twilight:NM makes $142 million on opening weekend, a 56 million for an X-Men franchise is downright embarassing.
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I'm at a loss to explain the popularity of Twilight. But the fact of the matter is, Twilight is an enoromously popular book series and the films makes aout $300 million. The X-Men have never been a $300 million franchise.

X-Men 3 had a huge opening weekend, making $120 million but then dropped an embarrassing 70% the next weekend. I don't know if it even exceeded X2's count.

The foregin box office was quite good, raking in $64 millon in 74 countries.
 
Dennis said:
KB24 said:
Agreed that $56 mil is above their expectations and really not a bad take in at all. I would rather have continued success from week to week rather than drop down after one big push. Bridesmaids did just over 12 million in 5th place. First Class did almost 5 times as much and that is considered bad? Where are the numbers for the $120 mil worldwide standing?
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Uh, yeah because this is the third weekend for Bridesmaids and opening week for FC.
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And let's consider... Bridesmaids was made for about 30 million, it's made over 100 million.... That's a great return.

X-Men:First Class, it's reported budget is 160 million...
 
archeryguy1701 said:
While it's not a monsterous amount, I would hardly call $56m between Friday and Saturday a failure. That's still a lot more than most movies tend to open with. Now, if it bottoms out over the next week and never recovers, then there'll be something to worry about.
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Thats between Friday and Sunday, it includes estimates for Sunday.

THat being said I did expect both earlier films to have a negative impact on the film, but I hardly expected it to be just a little over half of the attendance of Wolverine Origin, which even had to deal with a fairly wide spread work copy of the film out a full month before the film release.

In attendance its done roughly the business of either of the two Hulks for their opening weekends, and both were considered not out and out failures, but not enough to continue either series intact.

The one positive though is that it's Saturday was actually larger then its Friday (which also included midnights on Thursday), thats rare for a sequel or reboot, in fact I think Star Trek was the last sequel/ reboot that managed that feat on a Friday opening. So perhaps its legs will manage to be superior to any other X-Men film (they have sucked basically).

Between that and its soft openings world wide (just two major markets so far) don't paint a hopeful picture for the possibility of sequel, and that would be a shame, its for the most part a very good film.
 
Another problem for FC is that it's the worst opening for any X-Men movie, and therefore likely to make less money overall than the previous installments. Declining returns don't bode well for the continuation of a series these days - basically, to greenlight another one the studio has to have good hard reasons to expect the next one to open stronger, because if it continues to go south from here they'll wind up losing money.
 
Alidar Jarok said:
Dream said:
X3 and Wolverine were horrible. I'm in no rush to let those people at FOX take anymore of my money.

Hell, I'm tempted to just skip FC.
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That would be a shame. It's quite good. I honestly thought it was the best X-Men film ever. As others have said, skipping it would punish the wrong people.
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Meh, I just got back from seeing it, and I really wish I had saved the money.

To each his own.
 
Dennis said:
Another problem for FC is that it's the worst opening for any X-Men movie, and therefore likely to make less money overall than the previous installments. Declining returns don't bode well for the continuation of a series these days - basically, to greenlight another one the studio has to have good hard reasons to expect the next one to open stronger, because if it continues to go south from here they'll wind up losing money.
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Well, the bright side: If Fox stops making them, Marvel Studios gets the rights back... Avengers Vs. X-Men anyone...?

Actually, no, that sounds awful.
 
RoJoHen said:
Alidar Jarok said:
Dream said:
X3 and Wolverine were horrible. I'm in no rush to let those people at FOX take anymore of my money.

Hell, I'm tempted to just skip FC.
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That would be a shame. It's quite good. I honestly thought it was the best X-Men film ever. As others have said, skipping it would punish the wrong people.
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Meh, I just got back from seeing it, and I really wish I had saved the money.

To each his own.
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Certainly had more substance than Wolverine, though, no? I mean, if you went to see a movie for a specific character, I could understand, but, to me, this captured the spirit of what the X-Men are about.
 
Alidar Jarok said:
Certainly had more substance than Wolverine, though, no?
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What an accomplishment! Let's give it an Oscar! :lol:

I dunno, I just didn't like it all that much. I didn't like or care about the majority of the characters involved in the story.
 
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