X-Men: Days of Future Past beat Godzilla in its opening Australian weekend
X-Men: Days of Future Past became the biggest box office draw of the year in Australia smashing the record set by Godzilla last week, with the seventh film in the franchise taking $8.36m in tickets across 684 screens.
The film, which stars Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence, Anna Pacquin, Peter Dinklage and a host of other well-known actors, sees Wolverine sent to the past in an effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants.
Since its premiere on Thursday it has made nearly $8.5m in the Australian box office. While Godzilla made $6.767m last weekend the film which stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen and Bryan Cranston was relegated to second place taking $2.44m .
