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Movie: X-Men: DOFP | #2 Highest Grossing Film WW of 2014
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also I have to say this.Charles Xavier DEFINITELY did not think of Mystique as a sister. 
Erik and Raven are perf togetha 
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Then explain how the professor was in his body/alive during the invasion of the sentinels?
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The Sentinels was the original timeline so Professor X still would have be vaporized. I think they just decided use the after credit scene in Last Stand to explain how he returned considering the man in the hospital bed was his identical twin.
The only part that has yet to been fixed is how Professor X was walking in Origins and when he visited Jean in the 80's. I guess they're just going to pretend like Origins never happened. And as for Wolverines claws, I think he got them back right after Japan because in the after credit scene he opted for the pat down and was paralyzed by Magneto in the airport.
One of the most ingenious addition to the movie was
having Wolverine taken out of the Potomac by Mystique disguised as Stryker indicating that even in the different future he will gain adamantium and lose his memory of everything after 1973.
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Box Office: 'X-Men: Days Of Future Past' Nabs $302M Worldwide Debut
X-Men: Days of Future Past has earned $91.4 million on its first weekend of release, with a Memorial Day four-day debut of $111m. That total that includes $8.1m worth of Thursday previews. That’s a lower opening than the 2006 debut of X-Men: The Last Stand, which earned $102m Fri-Sun and $124m Fri-Mon over its Memorial Day debut. Heck, adjusted for inflation, it’s a smaller Fri-Sun debut than X2: X-Men United ($85m back in 2003) about on par with X-Men Origins: Wolverine ($85m in 2009) and X-Men ($54m in 2000, which would be about $80m today without any 3D bump). The question becomes exactly how 20th Century Fox viewed this seventh X-Men picture. Was it merely intended to improve upon the box office fortunes of the last three installments, or was the “franchise all-stars to the rescue” super-sequel meant to shoot the 14-year old X-Men franchise to towering new box office heights? If it’s the former, then the picture will certainly be a success. But in terms of relative comparisons to the X-Men franchise as a whole, it’s coming up somewhat short. X-Men may no longer be a god among insects in America. I add that caveat because it also earned $191m overseas this weekend. So as of Monday, the film has already earned $302m worldwide, or more than the $296m total of the first X-Men.
The film’s $91.4 million weekend is the third biggest of the year, behind Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($95m) and Godzilla ($93m), but ahead of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ($91m). The good news is that the film played a little better than X-Men: The Last Stand over the long weekend. X-Men 3 opened with a $45m opening day (the second biggest on record) and then went on to earn $102m Fri-Sun (about $125m today not accounting for 3D) and $124m Fri-Sun (about $151m today), for a 2.7x four-day multiplier and an awful 2.2x Fri-Sun multiplier. This time around, X-Men: Days of Future Past earned $36m on opening day (the third-biggest of the year) for a 2.9x Fri-Mon multiplier and a solid 3x Fri-Sun multiplier. It’s also the fifth-biggest Fri-Mon Memorial Day opener ever, behind Fast & Furious 6 ($117), X-Men: The Last Stand ($124m), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ($126m), and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End ($153m, which included $13m worth of Thursday previews).
X-Men: Days of Future Past, which brings back Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Patrick Stewart, and Ian McKellen for a time-travel story that also involves James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, and (the now red-hot) Jennifer Lawrence, was supposed to scale new heights for the franchise or merely stem the relative bleeding domestically. If Fox was looking for a Fast Five-type breakout success, it will have to happen overseas. Memorial Day weekend openers generally have terrible legs over their domestic theatrical run. X-Men: The Last Stand earned just 1.88x its four-day figure overall, ending its domestic run with $235 million. Most Memorial Day openers aren’t much better, with X-Men: The Last Stand, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Hangover part II, Fast & Furious 6, and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (the top five Memorial Day openers of all time prior to this weekend) doing around 1.85x-2.2x their 4 or 5 day debut figures.
It would seem at this juncture that the absolute best-case scenario is that X-Men: Days of Future Past ends its domestic total with $255m domestic (2.3x). That’s a solid figure, but it’s also below the $285m adjusted-for-inflation domestic totals of X2 and X-Men: The Last Stand. Like the Spider-Man reboot, it could be that the X-Men franchise, which was once one of the towering giants of the comic book superhero sub-genre, is now just another too-expensive fantasy property. The absolute nightmare scenario, and I’m not outright saying this is how it’s going to go, is that X-Men: Days of Future Past performs exactly like X-Men: The Last Stand from here on out and ends its domestic run with $207m. It”s doing about average for the franchise in America, although it’s clearly breaking out overseas.
Fox was arguably expecting that the return of Bryan Singer and the returning of the old cast members would cause X-Men: Days of Future Past to play like a proverbial X-Men 4, with the inflated budget to match. Like The Amazing Spider-Man 2, with great budgets come great expectations. I don’t want to be too negative in case it performs like, for example, Fast Five, which earned $200m here and over $600m worldwide. The overseas marketplace has changed since 2006. It already earned $191m overseas in 100 markets, the vast majority of markets in which it will be playing. Considering that The Wolverine holds the record for overseas totals for a X-Men film at $282m, it would appear that at least a foreign record will be broken for an X-Men film. So does this mean that the domestic total is irrelevant? Maybe, but that remains to be seen. By the way, the film played 56% male, 59% over 25, 53% Caucasian, 20% African America,n 14% Asian, and 13% Hispanic.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmen...l-day-weekend/
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hopefully the movie success wil help 20 century fox to consider making at least a new x-men movie with the original cast members....it's ok doing these "prequel" movies , but at the end of the day i want to see mutants like in the comics not their younger versions...
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Sucked. Same ****. Only about wolverine, Xavier and magneto. Same ****ing plot.
And I was actually excited to see the storm scenes and again was fooled. The only reason I saw the movie was because of my bf.
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hopefully the movie success wil help 20 century fox to consider making at least a new x-men movie with the original cast members....it's ok doing these "prequel" movies , but at the end of the day i want to see mutants like in the comics not their younger versions...
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The main problem is that Patrick & Ian are already too old for doing still action roles, and Fox won't take a risk with them
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We need a new Rogue. One that can fly and has super strength like the comic version.  |
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This movie  JENNIFER
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$302M opening weekend slayage for X-Men 
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$302M opening weekend slayage for X-Men |
the scalping
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$50 million dollars more and it will already have passed First Class's WW gross. 
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Ima need Disney to spent the money and buy the movie rights back.
So part 3 of avengers can give
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$302M opening weekend slayage for X-Men |
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Ima need Disney to spent the money and buy the movie rights back.
So part 3 of avengers can give
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No thanks.
Combining worlds like that is one of the worst thing comic book companies ever did.
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No thanks.
Combining worlds like that is one of the worst thing comic book companies ever did.
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$302M opening weekend slayage for X-Men |
Damn! 
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Ima need Disney to spent the money and buy the movie rights back.
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this will happen in 2200 when they're done milking everything else 
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this will happen in 2200 when they're done milking everything else |
Not unless Disney buys FOX by then!
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The only part that has yet to been fixed is how Professor X was walking in Origins and when he visited Jean in the 80's. I guess they're just going to pretend like Origins never happened. And as for Wolverines claws, I think he got them back right after Japan because in the after credit scene he opted for the pat down and was paralyzed by Magneto in the airport.
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That was in X-Men: The Last Stand, but you're right that it's never added up. I read an interview with someone involved in writing either First Class or The Last Stand after First Class came out, and they were like "meh, maybe he got them back and then lost them again" or something along those lines Let's just pretend The Last Stand never happened.
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Sucked. Same ****. Only about wolverine, Xavier and magneto. Same ****ing plot.
And I was actually excited to see the storm scenes and again was fooled. The only reason I saw the movie was because of my bf.
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