'Wolverine' Hits $34.75 Million On Friday, Hoping for $85+ Million for the Weekend
Looking to become the seventh biggest comic adaptation of all-time
No matter what you think about X-Men Origins: Wolverine it appears a lot of you already went out to see it as Steve Mason at Big Hollywood reports the origin story of the bad-tempered mutant hit an estimated $34.75 million on Friday and he expects it may end up around $86.8 million as the first blockbuster of the Summer 2009 movie season. Mason points out this gives Wolverine the seventh best opening day for a comic book adaptation with last year's Iron Man besting it by less than a half-million.
Should Mason's estimate of $86.8 million hold it will also make it the seventh best opening weekend for a comic book adaptation, but X2's $85.5 is a close eighth in that case and it's all going to depend on word-of-mouth, which if you read around the Internet it appears the fanboys didn't take to it, but just how will general audiences feel? One thing I know is $86.8 is damn close to our Box-Office Oracle's prediction of $88 million. Atta boy Laremy.
New Line's Ghosts of Girlfriends Past was the weekend's other wide release and earned an estimated $6 million on Friday which Mason expects to grow to $16.5 million for the weekend.
The only other new release expected to do any kind of real business was the Lionsgate/Roadside Attractions 3-D animated release Battle for Terra, which apparently seems to be suffering from the fact it was hardly promoted, only earning $300,000 on Friday and Mason expects that will only translate to a mere $1 million for the weekend, ultimately causing it to miss the weekend top ten.
I have included the rest of Mason's early Friday estimates below, stay tuned for Laremy's complete wrap-up on Sunday.
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Fox) – $34.75 million
- Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (Warner Bros) – $6 million
- Obsessed (Sony) – $4.2 million
- 17 Again (Warner Bros) – $2.22 million
- The Soloist (Dreamworks/Paramount) – $1.7 million
- Earth (Disney) – $1.45 million
- Monsters vs. Aliens (Dreamworks/Paramount) – $1.41 million
- Fighting (Rogue) – $1.4 million
- State of Play (Universal) – $1.28 million
- Hannah Montana: The Movie (Disney) – $1.1 million
Showing 2 Comments
~ PLEASE NOTE ~
If, in any way, your comment is an attack on the author of this post or a previous commenter, your comment will be deleted without question.
Add a New CommentNOTE: The Facebook login option has been disabled. We apologize for any inconvenience. |
Click to Read Our Commenting Rules & Guidelines
Too bad, I really didn't think even the $6.75 matinee was worth the price but Hugh Jackman was pretty studly. I was thinking swine flu/bad reviews would level this one off to sub $80M but oh well, I just hope it doesn't get in the way of J.J. Abrams.
Nice pic Mr. Brevet.
Saw it, didn't love it. Jackman, Schrieber and Huston all do well with limited depth but it butchers two of my favorite characters (deadpool and gambit) to a degree that it makes one wonder if the writers ever read a comic.
Honestly, it's doing alot better than I expected. It had good promo support but I thought maybe the leak and the so-so hype would hurt it. Apparently I was mistaken.