"X-Men Origins: Wolverine" Box Office Opening $87 Million
Posted on 04. May, 2009 by CSS in Cha-Ching$$, Entertainment, Movies
Hugh Jackman clawed his way to impressive box office opening with the mutant motion picture X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
The blockbuster grossed $87 million during its first three days of release.
The highly-anticipated film, a prequel to the original X-Men trilogy, tells the tale of Hugh’s character Wolverine, a self-healing superhero who has retractable metal claws.
His solo X-Men outing outdid the openings of the first two movies, X-Men and X2.
X-Men earned $54.5 million in its first weekend and X2: X-Men United opened with $85.6 million. The trilogy’s final chapter, X-Men: The Last Stand, had the franchise’s best opening with $102.8 million.
So did everyone check Wolverine out this weekend??
