Written by: Brad Brevet
Looking to become the seventh biggest comic adaptation of all-time.
No matter what you think about X-Men Origins: Wolverine it appears a lot of you already went out to see it as Steve Mason at Big Hollywood reports the origin story of the bad-tempered mutant hit an estimated $34.75 million on Friday and he expects it may end up around $86.8 million as the first blockbuster of the Summer 2009 movie season. Mason points out this gives Wolverine the seventh best opening day for a comic book adaptation with last year’s Iron Man besting it by less than a half-million.
Should Mason’s estimate of $86.8 million hold it will also make it the seventh best opening weekend for a comic book adaptation, but X2’s $85.5 is a close eighth in that case and it’s all going to depend on word-of-mouth, which if you read around the Internet it appears the fanboys didn’t take to it, but just how will general audiences feel? One thing I know is $86.8 is damn close to our Box-Office Oracle’s prediction of $88 million. Atta boy Laremy.
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