Re: Re: Re: "X2" made $32 million on Friday alone !!
 

Damn, pretty good guess-timate on my part. :)

AAAaaah, so that's the web site where you look up the boxoffice budgets, eh, cool. :)

What's the all time record for a movie opening?

$115m by Spider-man last May. (For a 3 day weekend, it also has the higest single day and highest opening day which is $39.4m for opening day and $44.5m for highest single day.

X2 is now on track to make $85.9m over the three day weekend, if those numbers hold up - it will be the #2 highest opening day (The current #2 is the first Harry Potter movie.) and be in the top 5 for opening weekends.

Thus far - X2 - which cost $110m to make - has grossed $155m across the globe - in its 3 days since opening. (with sunday being estimated of course.) Opening it on a huge international market was a really smart way to get cost back quickly before the Matrix sequel opens.

You really want to get your mind blown -- according to Reuters X2 made $155 million worldwide this weekend alone -- that's just about what the first movie made in the U.S. in its entire run! Holy cash cow!

'X2' Speeds to $155 Million Worldwide Opening
Sun May 4, 2003 01:46 PM ET
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The massively hyped comic book adventure movie "X2: X-Men United" stormed cinemas worldwide over the weekend, earning $155.2 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates issued on Sunday.

The three-day tally included $85.85 million from North America, a figure that propelled the film to No. 4 on the list of openers, behind reigning champion "Spider-Man" and the two "Harry Potter" movies.

The international total was $69.3 million. The film was budgeted at about $110 million.

"X2: X-Men United," a sequel based on the popular Marvel comic books about a pack of ostracized mutant savants, was released by Twentieth Century Fox, a unit of News Corp.'s Fox Entertainment Group Inc . The studio partnered on the film with Marvel Studios, a unit of Marvel Enterprises Inc .

The film's ensemble includes actors Hugh Jackman ("Wolverine"), Halle Berry ("Storm") and Sir Ian McKellen ("Magneto"). The first film in the series, 2000's "X-Men," opened with $54.5 million in North America and went on to earn $157.3 million domestically and more than $290 million worldwide.

Simply fantastic. Too bad it didn't beat Spiderman, though. That would've been incredible.

I don't know, "Daddy Daycare" is coming out next week. :lol:

Very impressive, even if it drops by half next weekend it's still in good shape. Remember Harry Potter 2 with competition, dropped a little over 50% in its second weekend and it still managed to gross around 260 million.

Though Potter didn't have to contend with <i>The Matrix Reloaded</i> a couple of weeks after opening. I see a final gross in the low $200's.

I see a lot of teenagers buying tickets to X2 and seeing Matrix Reloaded.

I'm thinking the same thing. Everyone I talk too & here also a lot of people keep saying Matrix is going to kill X2 when it comes out.

I really don't think so. It's the same kind of audience for both movies. I think a LOT of people in mass will be seeing Matrix the first 2 weekends but with all the sold out shows that are inevitable, they will end up seeing X2. And many of them will be seeing X2 again.

A definite possibility, but with the first Matrix being indirectly responsible for the enforcement of the R rating rule, I am sure there will be a lot of carding at the screenings.

That could bee true. I hope that they don't bye tickets two Daddy Daycare in too weaks and sea Matrix, though. I couldn't bare it if DDC beet Matrix.

I was hoping that X2 would break $100 million, but I guess you can't complain with about $86 million.

I went to the Union Square UA theater in NYC. I bought my tickets at about 5 PM on Saturday and they were sold out until 11 PM. But thank goodness for the movie cash from X-Men 1.5 which I got for less than $8 from Columbia House.

I must say that Kelly Hu is definitely one of the hottest actresses out there but dunno about those blue contacts.


Oh yeah, I think that The Matrix Reloaded will probably beat X-Men despite the R rating cuz they have the benefit of releasing the movie on a Thursday so they'll have an extra day of ticket sales. Here's hopin' that my movie cash comes in the mail fairly soon.

This post says it all, and guess what movie gets the money credit ? Not The Matrix

Most theaters i know check tickets for big movie releases, especially ones rated R. Heck, they were checking tickets for X-Men 2.

Although I can see this happening, a lot of theaters I've been to have really been cracking down on this. They now check tickets at teh door into the theatre and sometimes they'll check inside the theatre.