X-Men: Days of Future Past did the old Wolverine "snikt, snikt, chop, chop" on all of its competition at the box office in its opening weekend, earning $90.7 million in the U.S. and a combined $261 million worldwide.
That makes it the fourth biggest opening of the year domestically, behind Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($95m), Godzilla ($93m) and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ($91m).
As Forbespoints out, that’s a lower opening than X-Men: The Last Stand, which earned $102 million over Memorial Day weekend in 2006 (but that's far from what you'd call a failure).
It looks like any bad press director Bryan Singer got due to that sexual assault lawsuit didn't stop people from going to the theater, though, as X-Men debuted at No. 1 in 119 countries.
Godzilla was No. 2 with $34.1 million, and Adam Sandler's latest movie, Blended, came in third with a lackluster $14.2 million.
[Via Forbes]
