Thursday, March 28, 2024

Box Office Report: The Wolverine claws its way to a big opening

The Wolverine clawed its way to the top.

With an under-projected $55 million opening, the James Mangold-directed and Hugh Jackman-starring comic-book movie took the No. 1 spot at the box office over the weekend. Fox’s movie opened with substantially less than the awful X-Men Origins: Wolverine‘s $85 million four years ago. The Wolverine is certainly better than Origins and Jackman gives another great performance, but the story just isn’t quite up to snuff.

While The Wolverine‘s domestic haul wasn’t exactly impressive, it did do exceptionally well overseas. The movie, which stars many international actors, pulled in an astounding $141 million, which is the best ever for any X-Men movie.

The Conjuring dropped to second but still grossed a solid $22.1 million. The Warner Bros.’ horror hit has totaled $83 million in two weeks and should surpass $100 million sometime over the next week.

Not far behind in third was Universal’s Despicable Me 2, as the animated hit hauled in another $16 million to bring its total to a whopping $306.4 million to date. It’s currently the second-highest grossing movie of the year behind Iron Man 3‘s $407 million.

Another animated movie, DreamWorks’ Turbo, finished in fourth with $13.3 million and just $55.7 million in less than two weeks.

Sony’s Grown Ups 2 earned $11.5 million to round out the top five. The Adam Sandler-starring sequel has now grossed over $101 million.

The Wolverine has a strong chance to finish on top again next weekend as this week’s new releases include Smurfs 2 on Wednesday and 2 Guns on Friday.

Nate Parsons
Nate Parsons
Nate pretends to be a movie connoisseur but in reality he really knows nothing about movies other than the fact that he loves them. His favorites include The Shawshank Redemption, Braveheart and Schindler's List. Follow him on Twitter @nater_parsons

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