User blog:Ceauntay/New Hit X-Men Sequel Expected to Top Box Office This Weekend

There are sequels and there are sequels but the fourth of the best-selling X-Men series is expected to top box-office takes this weekend as summer begins in earnest to drive paying customers to the nearest cool cinema. Latest reports from Los Angeles said Thursday “X-Men: First Class”, fourth in the X-Men series, may take some $50 million at the box office this weekend, to top other sequels and sundry film hits now showing worldwide. To date the X-Men franchise has earned for Twentieth Century Fox more than $1 billion in global revenues since 2000 when the first of the series was introduced to the public. Another sequel, “The Hangover Part II” is expected to make a strong showing by Sunday, predicted to take second place in box office revenue of $40 million, having earned $150 million in North America alone, and $200 worldwide. Dreamworks’ animated sequel “Kung Fu Panda 2”, a Paramount release, may take third spot this weekend with $30 million at the box office. In its opening earlier this week, the second Panda film that every member of the family apparently loves, took second place in ticket sales, earning $67 million in just five days of release, and $135 million worldwide. On possible fourth spot as the week closes is Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides”, you guessed it—also a sequel--, with an expected take of $20 million. Its initial two weeks of showing however had it near the top earning close to $600 million in two weeks. The fifth favorite is expected to be Universal’s “Bridesmaids”, an R-rated film that appeals to the low teens. Both “True Jackson, VP: The Movie” and “Sonic X: The Final Stand” are falling out the top ten to make in $70 million and $275 million, respectivetly.

It is forecast to reach the $100 million revenue mark this week, as its second week of release closes.