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It IS absolutely nuts, but also well deserved.700+? That's absolutely nuts to me. I thought 500 would have been lucky enough. Damn.

It IS absolutely nuts, but also well deserved.700+? That's absolutely nuts to me. I thought 500 would have been lucky enough. Damn.
Yeah Logan is going to outgross Apocalypse.
I wonder how Kinberg feels about that.
To think the studio cut a good chunk of Hughs paycheck, and the budget, to make Hugh and Mangolds vision of this film come true. Mangold and Jackman in return gave Fox a boatload of money. After all that Hugh has done for them. I know it's business and all but still.
I think Jackmans Wolverine was a huge part of the X series making more money then without him in the picture.
Apocalypse, First Class (a couple second cameo doesn't count) didn't make much compared to say where Hughs Wolvie was leading the franchise in DOFP.
Heck even the solo awful Wolvie film made almost as much as those 2 films with that ensemble. A good Wolvie film finally and the results show for themselves.
I think Jackmans Wolverine was a huge part of the X series making more money then without him in the picture.
Apocalypse, First Class (a couple second cameo doesn't count) didn't make much compared to say where Hughs Wolvie was leading the franchise in DOFP.
Heck even the solo awful Wolvie film made almost as much as those 2 films with that ensemble. A good Wolvie film finally and the results show for themselves.
Unfortunately I don't see New Mutants and Supernova opening higher than Logan's numbers.
Meanwhile Logan is doing great though.Anyway an R rated film with First Class cast... That would be a gamble.
Meanwhile Logan is doing great though.![]()
I think with the success of Deadpool and Logan, people think that's where the money lies.
I think with the success of Deadpool and Logan, people think that's where the money lies.
People wouldn't think that if Apocalypse didn't underperform.
Anyway we had the pg13 Dofp with the original cast nearly 3 years ago and that was successful.
When you are making more in R-Rated movies that cost less than you are with the ensemble ones even when they are critically praised like DOFP, I'd worry about them trying more low budget grittier movies for the team movies.
God, Magneto again? PFF. Give it to someone else.
I think more than anything Deadpool and Logan have proved that an R rating isn't the limit some used to believe it was. There's a market for these kinds of stories, and within the larger X-franchise there's potential for that to continue.
I'll say it right now, give us a Magneto spinoff set in Eastern Europe during the last years of the Soviet Union and take the same character-based approach that Logan used.
I think a House of M / Genosha spin-off with Magneto could work as a way of taking Magneto and also Quicksilver out of the main series, adding Toad, and introducing Wanda (I would have said Polaris but she's gonna be in the TV show).
It could serve the purpose of streamlining the cast for the main series - although Magneto doesn't need any more development, to be honest.
There's still lots of money to be made at the PG and PG-13 levels, too. But yeah, it's good to see Logan confirm that Deadpool wasn't a fluke and there is a strong market for R's as well.
Hugh and Stewart are just bigger draws for X-Men films unlike the first Class cast. Unfortunately I don't see New Mutants and Supernova opening higher than Logan's numbers.