The latest outing in the superhero franchise, Bryan Singer's X-Men: Days of Future Past, hit $702.2 million in global ticket sales on Tuesday, pushing the combined total gross of the seven films to $3.003 billion.
Internationally, the franchise total is $1.7 billion, while the domestic cume is $1.3 billion. Days of Future Past, combining the casts of the the first X-Men installments and X-Men: First Class, has quickly become the top-grossing title in the series. It's also on the verge of becoming the top-grossing film of the year to date, eclipsing the $703.2 million earned by The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and the $710.7 grossed by Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
The latest outing in the superhero franchise, Bryan Singer's X-Men: Days of Future Past, hit $702.2 million in global ticket sales on Tuesday, pushing the combined total gross of the seven films to $3.003 billion.
Internationally, the franchise total is $1.7 billion, while the domestic cume is $1.3 billion. Days of Future Past, combining the casts of the the first X-Men installments and X-Men: First Class, has quickly become the top-grossing title in the series. It's also on the verge of becoming the top-grossing film of the year to date, eclipsing the $703.2 million earned by The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and the $710.7 grossed by Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
BOM has it just over $697M, but either way CA2 better glue that weave!
BOM has it just over $697M, but either way CA2 better glue that weave!
Fox's reported overseas numbers include Puerto Rico numbers, which are already included in the domestic gross. However, the Puerto Rico numbers are around 2 million only if I am not wrong. Thus, BOM deducts this Puerto Rico total every weekend from the OS. Currently the OS number there is just an estimate, so it could be more. So this could mean 702.2-2 = 700.2m.
Fox's reported overseas numbers include Puerto Rico numbers, which are already included in the domestic gross. However, the Puerto Rico numbers are around 2 million only if I am not wrong. Thus, BOM deducts this Puerto Rico total every weekend from the OS. Currently the OS number there is just an estimate, so it could be more. So this could mean 702.2-2 = 700.2m.
OS is always just an estimate really, especially since markets like China have exploded. So few are close to the US & Canada for tracking receipts, save for some European countries, Japan and Australia. A ballpark of just under $700M is most likely meaning it should enter the weekend with over $700M... we could definitely pass CA2 if that's the case but TF4 will hurt even with the terrible early reviews.
Domestically X-Men will take over $3M this weekend so that'll leave it over $223M. International totals ensure it'll hope SM2 for second-highest grossing movie WW of the year... no idea if it will have enough to top CA2's near $711M after the weekend though...