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X-Men: First Class Set For $50M+ At Weekend Box Office |
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Thursday, 02 June 2011 18:40 |
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The Wrap are reporting on X-men: First Class' expected weekend Box Office takings. And it's looking very healthy indeed..
Fox executives expect the movie, opening at 3,641 locations Friday, many of them showing the film at midnight, to open somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 million.
With Fox rebooting the franchise with relatively unknown actors -- well, at least, relatively unknown compared to previous franchise heavyweight Hugh Jackman -- Fox executive VP of distribution, Chris Aronson compared "First Class" to Paramount's J.J. Abrams-produced reboot of "Star Trek" two years ago.
They completely re-invented that franchise, and they were very successful," Aronson noted.
The site goes on to note that the movie has every chance of over performing and beating pre release projections because there are no other movies opening widely this weekend. Although the rather unfunny Hangover 2 is expected to have another strong weekend, predictiosn favor First Class knocking it from the top spot. Read more: |
