Box Office Report: X-Men Rock the Suburbs
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Remember, last week, when everyone was all fired up about how The Da Vinci Code, with $77 million, had scored the year's biggest open? And how all the haters were being told to stick it? Well a bunch of mutants went out this weekend and just beat the crap out of Robert Langdon and his stupid code. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the new champion of 2006: after that crazy first 24 hours, X-Men: The Last Stand went on to make $107 million in three days, giving it not only 2006's richest debut, but also the fourth-biggest North American opening weekend ever. Yeah, you could say that the folks at Fox are pretty happy.Though most studios will send out their official weekend estimates later today, the three day totals have The Da Vinci Code in the second spot with about $33.5 million through Sunday, followed by Over the Hedge with $27.2 million and Mission: Impossible III, which looks to be running out of domestic gas, in the fourth spot with just $6.6 million in its fourth week of release. Though its numbers are down about 50% from last week (a fairly typical decline), The Da Vinci Code, which cost about $120 million to make, is now into profit on US sales alone, with total box office returns over $136 million.
When it comes out, I'll add the four day chart (the numbers on which will differ slightly from these) after the jump.
1. X-Men: The Last Stand, $120.1 million
2. The Da Vinci Code, $43.0 million
3. Over the Hedge, $35.3 million
4. Mission: Impossible III, $8.6 million
5. Poseidon, $7.0 million
6. RV, $5.3 million
7. See No Evil, $3.2 million
8. Just My Luck, $2.3 million
9. United 93, $1.1 million
10. An American Haunting, $0.9 million
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5-29-2006 @ 11:42AM
JT said...
With overseas BO, you can safely say that Da Vinci was 'into profit' in its first week-end...
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5-29-2006 @ 12:36PM
John Charlton said...
How in the world did DiVinci Code beat Over the Hedge in the box office numbers? I thought word would have got out that DaVinci (the movie) sucks and its take would plummet. What we have here is a failure to communicate. By the way, X3 rocks; its a fine little flick... and stay in the theater AFTER the credits. You'll be glad you did.
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5-29-2006 @ 12:51PM
Peter said...
I agree that Da Vinci Code sucks, and that word of mouth should have been reflective, but oh well.
And I'm not surprised that X3 made an ungodly amount of money. The midnight showing I went to had sold 1,200 tickets alone, which I honestly wasn't expecting. Though, as expected, Brett Ratner, master of subtlety, dropped the ball entirely. It's not a fine little flick, it's a throwaway of the entire franchise. Even if you don't care about the characters or what not, it's a mediocre blockbuster at best. Characters are given lengthy introductions (such as Angel's, which was the second scene in the entire movie), with no other purpose than to have one minor, predictable pay-off in the end.
I doubt it'll happen opening weekend, but I really hope Superman puts the hurt on X3's boxoffice take, just to prove that genuine quality should be rewarded (assuming it is actually good).
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5-29-2006 @ 10:27PM
Martha Fischer said...
You're right, JT. I've clarified the post, thank you.
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5-30-2006 @ 8:29AM
Elliott said...
I went to the midnight showing of X-Men. I was... disappointed. Sadly I love the X-Men too much to give it a bad review, but I know that it could have been sooooooooooo much better. It's not like I have a degree in filmmaking, but I do know words like transitions, emotion, and reality, none of which make an appearence in the film.
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5-30-2006 @ 9:12AM
MarcV said...
X-Men 3 broke two comic book conventions and made the movie less enjoyable:
1. If you're going to have a good or bad guy with near-omnipotent powers, you better have a bad or good guy with similar (counter-acting) power. There was no counter to Phoenix, and her vacuous presence in the second half of the movie was bothersome.
2. Only one major character death per episode, please! Did anybody else think about the parallels between Xavier and Obi-Wan Kenobi?
The movie was enjoyable but could have been so much more if they had been able to work around the two problems mentioned above.
[I didn't know about the post-credits thing until I read about it after seeing the movie. Drats!]
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