Monday Movie Roundup 7/29/2013

Let's see how The Wolverine did...

As of this morning, The Wolverine made an estimated $55 million here in the U.S., and another estimated $86.1 million internationally.

That puts it at roughly $141 million over it's first weekend, beating the film's production budget of $120 million.

So things look good for Hugh Jackman...

...but how does this compare to other X-Men related movies?

Well, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, made over $73.1 million internationally and over $85 million in the States ($158.1 million altogether) opening weekend.

X-Men: First Class made just over $55.1 million it's opening weekend here, over $61 million internationally (opening a week before it was released in the States), and a little over $10 grand in South Korea, where it opened a week before that.

In other words, by the end of opening weekend in America, X-M:FC had brought in over $102 million internationally in addition to the $55.1 million here, making a grand total of over $157.1 million...but that's just cheating on FOX's part.

So - The Wolverine. while making back production costs - falls behind both X-MO:W and X-M:FC in terms of opening weekend numbers.

Review-wise though, people are saying much better things about The Wolverine than Origins, so I think that when all is said and done Jackman's current outing as Logan will be more profitable than his last one.

Which is good, because us fans want our movies gosh-darn it!