X-Men tops box office for second week beating Maleficent into second spot

Alex Hayes

June 2, 2014 4:26

X-Men: days of Future Past continued its domination of the box office across the weekend pulling in $4.473m on 610 screens, keeping new Angelina Jolie film Maleficent off the top spot for its opening weekend.

The new Disney film starring Jolie as faerie Maleficent, the antagonist in the Sleeping Beauty tale, managed to pull in $4.038m on 530 screens, while Family Guy and Ted creator Seth MacFarlane’s new film A Million Ways to Die in the West was third, taking $2.245m on its opening weekend on 353 screens.

They relegated monster hit Godzilla to third spot with a take of $1.195m, taking its total since opening three weeks ago to $12.655m. X-Men has so far taken $15.052m since it opened last weekend.

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Alex Hayes

Alex Hayes worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2017 in roles including editor and head of Mumbrella Bespoke.

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A mIllion ways to die in the west Angelina Jolie box office comedy Godzilla Maleficent Seth MacFarlane Sleeping Beauty Steve Coogan X-Men: Days of Future Past

3 COMMENTS

Bill 3 Jun 14

Godzilla’s killing it considering it’s on zero screens

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Alex Hayes 3 Jun 14

Hi Bill,

Some sort of anomaly with the numbers, we’re looking at it.

Or maybe it’s just that big a film?

Cheers,

Alex – editor, Mumbrella

Beau Ushay 3 Jun 14

The industry will never release numbers, so hard to compare apples to apples, but you can see the highest selling video games each week courtesy of our industry body (bottom right):

http://www.igea.net/

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