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Originally posted by Rusty
I saw those estimates alright... it's fairly awful. Saturday and Sunday could prove to bump it up but they were projecting an average drop of 55-60%, which would have been poor enough. This is kinda terrible. If a drop of over 70% is the weekend average, the movie will struggle to get over $200M domestically whereas it was projected to come close to $300M.
Internationally it should hold on better with Japan totals but we'll see... It's a shame, the movie is great, especially next to Maleficent.
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it is suffering a typical X-Men drop for weekend #2, down 65%.
Ending weekend #2 at over $160 million will put it $12 million ahead of Godzilla's pace, $14 million ahead of ASM2's pace, and about even with Captain America's pace. Assuming it continues to make big money overseas, it should become the highest-grossing X-Men movie ever by early next week.
And this has become par for the course with summer films, especially of established franchises. They're incredibly front loaded and have a massive drop from weekend-to-weekend. It doesn't say a thing about the actual quality of the film itself, however, since DoFP is obviously getting rave reviews from critics and audiences.