Well, X-Men: Days of Future Past is the fourth film of 2014 to come in over $90 million, though just barely as it’s estimated the mutant mash-up scored $90.7 million ($261 million total worldwide as of today). The result is $600,000 below tracking, but the “A” CinemaScore bodes well for its sophomore session… Well, sort of…
Godzilla obviously felt the pain of X-Men‘s opening, dropping a whopping 66% for a $31.4 million weekend after a great opening last weekend. In the case of X-Men, it will have at least one weekend without direct, genre competition, but a week later comes Tom Cruise‘s Edge of Tomorrow, which is already earning good buzz.
The week’s other new wide release, Blended, the third teaming of Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, opened with only $14.2 million, which is less than Sandler’s 2000 release Little Nicky and just barely beats 2012’s That’s My Boy. Yeah, it’s actually his worst opening for a PG-13 movie since Happy Gilmore in 1996 and that was before he was much of a known quantity. Blended did score an “A-” from its opening day audience, but it appears if you weren’t among them you really don’t care.
Finally, Jon Favreau‘s Chef expanded into 498 theaters and took in $2.2 million for a $4,538 per theater average. Also Alejandro Jodorowsky‘s first film in 23 years, The Dance of Reality opened in two theaters, bringing in $24,970 for a per screen average of $12,485.
Next weekend sees the release of A Million Ways to Die in the West, which looks absolutely terrible, and Maleficent, which I can’t tell if it’s going to be a massive, Alice in Wonderland kind of hit, or a flop.
