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Speaking of Alice in Wonderland, how do you think that will affect Apocalypse?  I think we should boycot it tbh 
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It'll certainly be competition, but right now X-Men should be fine to take the WW total for the weekend, but it may be a closer call for the US opening weekend.
X-Men needs the word of mouth like DOFP had - it got acclaim from the get-go. Add that to (biggest actress on the planet right now) Jennifer Lawrence-fronted promo with (biggest movie ever Star Wars star) Oscar Isaac + (likely Oscar nominated for Steve Jobs) Michael Fassbender + return of original X-Men characters Scott/Jean/Storm/Nightcrawler/Angel, as well as hopefully coming off the early success of Deadpool and things could go really great. It's missing the old cast/new cast dynamic of DOFP so we'll see just how much that might dent this movie.
Alice got lukewarm reviews - despite making a ton of cash, its viewed as this overly CGI mess-work that even an amazing cast like Depp, Bonham-Carter and Hathaway can't overcome. If this one gets mixed reviews I can see it making far less. It made more through its legs than X-Men, so it needs to keep decent world of mouth.