Days of Future Past The Official X-Men: First Class Box Office Discussion Thread! - Part 1

[Celestial]

4. "X-Men: First Class" (Fox/Dune/Ingenious): $11.5 million on its third weekend, down 52%. Domestic total: $119.9 million. $21.2 million overseas in 67 foreign markets. International total: $163.2 million.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/ent...office-green-lantern-mr-poppers-penguins.html

It's already passed the international total for the first X-Men and is ahead of the third weekends for all of the other X-Men films. Internationally, it could get to $200m.

 

[SuperT]

EDIT:

Celestial beat me to it!

 

[JP]

$283.1 WW.

I still think $350m is a possibility.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I'm glad it's doing decent overseas. It deserves every penny.

A sequel would be nice.

 

[kedrell]

$283.1 WW.

I still think $350m is a possibility.

I'd say that's the ceiling. But even getting within $10-20M of that should be enough to get a sequel, considering the budget(if the $135-140M after tax rebate is true).

 

[JP]

It'll hit $300 million by next week.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

The biggest factor to The Dark Knight that people seem to gloss over is that Batman is a huge American pop culture icon. Batman is arguably the most popular comic book character in America. And without a doubt, Batman is certainly bigger than X-Men. So with quality (something the original Batman films didn't give us, but Nolan's films did), Batman is inherently going to out perform a property like X-Men.

The reason Batman has become such a pop culture success has been the transition to film being of such quality. Adam West's Batman was very much a product of its time and reached the public. Batman '89 was fine film.The animated series from the 90s is one of the finest ever produced. Begins was a modest success financially and an epic success critically, that paved the way for TDK.

Now look at Arkham Asylum. Kids continue to grow up with quality Batman that has nothing to do with comics.

 

[Angamb]

4. "X-Men: First Class" (Fox/Dune/Ingenious): $11.5 million on its third weekend, down 52%. Domestic total: $119.9 million. $21.2 million overseas in 67 foreign markets. International total: $163.2 million.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/ent...office-green-lantern-mr-poppers-penguins.html

It's already passed the international total for the first X-Men and is ahead of the third weekends for all of the other X-Men films. Internationally, it could get to $200m.

really???

Im so happy!!!

 

[JimB]

I'll be a very happy guy if this movie hits 150 million in US and the next installment makes 250 ~ 300 million

 

[marvelrobbins]

Green Lantern was a disappointment,It couldn't match First Class's Opening weekend and prices are higher with 3-D.

Problem IS first class has been doing less than estimates.So It probally won't hit 120 Million this weekend.And being In Fourth place now it's unlikely to do much anymore on
Weekday showings.And It will almost certainly fall out of top 5 next weekend.It Is going to end up Domesticly In the Fantastic Four:Rise of the Silver Surfer and Incredible Hulk
range.

 

[SuperT]

Green Lantern was a disappointment,It couldn't match First Class's Opening weekend and prices are higher with 3-D.

Problem IS first class has been doing less than estimates.So It probally won't hit 120 Million this weekend.And being In Fourth place now it's unlikely to do much anymore on
Weekday showings.And It will almost certainly fall out of top 5 next weekend.It Is going to end up Domesticly In the Fantastic Four:Rise of the Silver Surfer and Incredible Hulk
range.

Uh, clearly you missed the part in this thread where it's already at $119.9 million. It'll easily be at or above $120m by Monday morning.

 

[Angamb]

The worldwide boxoffice of First Class will be bigger than X1, both Hulk, and Fantastic Four 2, at the very least.

 

[kedrell]

The worldwide boxoffice of First Class will be bigger than X1, both Hulk, and Fantastic Four 2, at the very least.

OS will be it's saving grace. Domestically it's headed for the 140M range(TIH #'s, adjusted).

 

[marvelrobbins]

Uh, clearly you missed the part in this thread where it's already at $119.9 million. It'll easily be at or above $120m by Monday morning.

No.Remember these last 2 weekends had First Class overestimated.

Weekend 1-56 Million estimated.55 Million final

Weekend 2-25 Million Estimated.23 Million final.

I wouldn't bet the bank on It at 119 Million through Sunday.

With First Class now In Fourth Place It may not do well anymore on Weekday
showings.And next Weekend with Cars 2 First Class will almost certainly drop out of top 5.

 

[JP]

Actually, it made $24 mil last weekend. It was overestimated by just over $800,000.

 

[marvelrobbins]

OS will be it's saving grace. Domestically it's headed for the 140M range(TIH #'s, adjusted).

It may not even hit 140 Million domesticlly.The way things are going It will
be lucky to hit 138 Million.Which would be around 20 Million less than first
X-Men.

I remain to think any discussion of a First Class sequel IS way way too Premature.

 

[marvelrobbins]

Actually, it made $24 mil last weekend. It was overestimated by just over $800,000.

All right I was wrong on that.But the fact remains it has been overestimated.
And the fact remians This week If It can make 1 Million on weekdays that
will be good.And If 11 Million holds for this weekend It will likely do 5-6 Million
next weekend when Cars 2 hits.

If we're lucky next weekend First Class will hold at 5.

 

[Angamb]

Forget about domestic gross for once.

Worldwide boxoffice is what will make Fox to do a sequel, not just the domestic one.

 

[kedrell]

It may not even hit 140 Million domesticlly.The way things are going It will
be lucky to hit 138 Million.Which would be around 20 Million less than first
X-Men.

I remain to think any discussion of a First Class sequel IS way way too Premature.

If, I say IF mind you...the $135-140M after tax budget is accurate then the films is already at the break even stage of it's run. It's nothing but profit from here on out. I think it'd need to earn at least $50M in profit threatrically WW to begin to justify a sequel. But it very well may get another $50M WW for the rest of it's run.

 

[Marvel]

Green Lantern was a disappointment,It couldn't match First Class's Opening weekend and prices are higher with 3-D.

Thank God for that... Green Lantern is as bad as most are saying and doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as First Class let alone have the same box office. I know that happens a lot where a good film doesn't make as much as a bad one but it just seems more wrong in this case.

 

[Electrix]

$283.1 million is a good number. Fox should be happy with $300 million+

 

[Angamb]

$283.1 million is a good number. Fox should be happy with $300 million+

agreed.

 

[Quetzal]

Wow 162 mil Overseas!

Can anyone tell us how the marketing was overseas? Domestically it was pretty mediocre.

Could prob get 200m Foreign, such a wierd stat lol

 

[Electrix]

I'm in the UK and all I saw was TV spots every now and again leading up to its release. James McAvoy also appeared on a Saturday night chat show and Kevin Bacon did a radio interview. There was the regular online/newspaper press etc.

I think X-Men: First Class has benefited from the delayed releases of Super 8 and Green Lantern overseas. Some countries aren't getting them until July/August. I think word of mouth helped. It also opened well it a number of smaller countries.

In South Korea, First Class raked in $5.2 million or more than two and half times Wolverine's start, and big gains were made in Taiwan (quadrupling Wolverine), Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia (distributor 20th Century Fox's highest-grossing opening ever). All told, First Class posted franchise-high opening grosses in 14 countries.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3180&p=.htm

 

[gambit78]

I'm surprised not more folks are talking about the turnout for Green Lantern. They must have spent much more for marketing cuz I saw their promos for weeks on end.

It's not just box office but having to count how much they had to promote.

I saw pretty next to nil promos for FC.