--- title: 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' and Elusive $100 Million Movie Opening description: Director Bryan Singer's X-Men reunion earned "only" $91.4 million from its three-day opening. Are we getting Marvel superhero fatigue? canonical: https://time.com/116822/x-men-days-of-future-past-100-million-movie-opening-marvel/ author: Richard Corliss article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-27T04:49:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:08:21.047Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' and Elusive $100 Million Movie Opening og:description: Director Bryan Singer's X-Men reunion earned "only" $91.4 million from its three-day opening. Are we getting Marvel superhero fatigue? og:url: https://time.com/116822/x-men-days-of-future-past-100-million-movie-opening-marvel/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte1272769945ca724/698690e035ba6fc227c02236/rtr3p3ph.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Cast member Hugh Jackman signs autographs for fans at the South East Asia premiere of X-Men: Days Of Future Past in Singapore og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' and Elusive $100 Million Movie Opening twitter:description: Director Bryan Singer's X-Men reunion earned "only" $91.4 million from its three-day opening. 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Along with his fingernail cutlery, Hugh Jackman sports veins that pop out of his arms like the 3-D detailing on a muscle car. Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy exchange meaningful glowers — while their older selves, played by Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, gaze at them from a half-century into the future with the indulgent perplexity of grandfathers watching a couple of crazy kids they can’t help loving. These attractive folks are part of an all-cool cast that unites the stars of the first _X-Men_ trilogy (2000–06) and the prequel series launched three summers ago with _X-Men: First Class_. That Marvel franchise fusion — plus a fabulous scene where superfast-mo Peter/Quicksilver (Evan Peters) zips around the Pentagon kitchen deflecting bullets, saving lives and pulling pranks to the tune of Jim Croce’s “Time in a Bottle” — should have been enough to cue a lemming rush to the multiplexes and make _X-Men: Days of Future Past_ the first $100 million three-day weekend of 2014. (**MORE:** [_The X-Men: Days of Future Past microsite_](http://time.com/65153/x-men-25-moments-history-photos/)) Instead, director Bryan Singer’s freaks-and-geeks reunion earned “only” $91.4 million from its Thursday evening previews through Sunday. That’s a smaller haul than the $93.2 million amassed last weekend by the _Godzilla_ remake or the $91.6 million for Marvel’s _The Amazing Spider-Man 2_ in early May. Add in the Memorial Day gross, and _Days of Future Past_ will have a four-day estimated total of about $111 million, which puts it a mediocre 34th on the all-time four-day list, behind seven other Marvel movies. Most humbling of all, the new _X-Men_ movie couldn’t crack the $95 million tally for yet another Marvel sibling, _Captain America: The Winter Soldier_. That picture portrays a lesser entry from the comics company’s superhero stable — and _Winter Soldier_ opened in April, an unlikely month for box-office behemoths. (**READ:** [Corliss’s review of _Captain America: The Winter Soldier_](http://time.com/46760/captain-america-the-winter-soldier-movie-review/)) All this firepower, and no $100 million three-day weekend yet. In the past decade of blockbuster action films, that has happened only twice: in 2009, when the first nine-figure movie was _Transformers 2_ in late June, at $109 million; and in 2011, when the finale of the _Harry Potter_ films took in nearly $170 million in mid-July. Hollywood loves to play the numbers game, and $100 million — first achieved by the 2002 _Spider-Man_ — has a nice, round glow and a luscious scent. To moguls with an expensive film to market, it smells like victory. Of[ the 26 movies to score at least a $100 million three-day debut](http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/weekends/), 13 opened before Memorial Day, and 11 of those in May, which Hollywood considers the beginning of the summer season. By this time in 2007, three May releases — the third episodes of the original _Spider-Man_, _Shrek_ and _Pirates of the Caribbean_ franchises — had enjoyed $100 million-plus openings. In 2010, both _Alice in Wonderland_ (in March) and _Iron Man 2_ (early May) had exceeded the magic figure. And in March of 2012, Lawrence’s _The Hunger Games_ blasted out of the gate with $152.5 million, followed six weeks later by Marvel’s _The Avengers_, which set the current three-day record: $207.4 million. (**WATCH:** [Jennifer Lawrence as Raven/Mystique in _Days of Future Past_](http://time.com/35767/x-men-trailer-2-jennifer-lawrence-mystique/)) Among the five _X-Men_ movies, the _Days of Future Past_ opening is right in the middle: well above the $54.5 million earned by the first film — plain old _X-Me_n — in 2000 and the $55.1 million tallied by the 2011 _First Class_ relaunch, but dwarfed by the $102.75 million for the 2006 _X-Men: The Last Stand_. In real dollars, _Future Past_ also lags behind the 2003 _X2: X-Men United_. Its $85.6 million opening would be $113.7 million today. And that’s not figuring in surcharges for 3-D and IMAX projections. With higher ticket prices and familiar superheroes, why can’t this year’s movies open to a measly $100 million? Perhaps the heroes are too familiar: both of this month’s Marvel offerings, _Spider-Man_ and _X-Men_, are recast recyclings of popular series that concluded a mere seven and eight years ago. Some viewers see these as the bus-and-truck versions of stories they loved not so long ago. And so they don’t see the new ones. (**MORE:** Corliss’s [review of _The Amazing Spider-Man 2_](http://time.com/81436/review-the-amazing-spider-man-2-a-web-of-missed-opportunities/?%5Fr=true)) Aside from superhero fatigue, these audiences may also be suffering from Marvel overload. Marvel Entertainment is the canniest movie company around, with near-genius amalgamation of the creatures spawned in their comic books. But three Marvel movies in two months may be one of two too many. Didn’t Captain America just save the world in a fashion similar to that used by the X-Men to prevent a mad scientist (Peter Dinklage) from giving the ultimate weapon of a sentinel army to Richard Nixon? Is the movie world in danger of overpopulation by shape-shifters and twisted geniuses? Whatever the explanation, there hasn’t been a $100-million weekend since _The Hunger Games: Catching Fire_ opened last Thanksgiving. But in the long run, three days in a film’s North American release means less than what the movie earns in its entire run around the globe. With the Chinese market for Hollywood movies skyrocketing, even as domestic grosses stagnate, the new gold standard for blockbuster success is a $1 billion-dollar worldwide take. That exclusive club now has 18 members, including many — _Titanic_, _Avatar_ and the new No. 5 all-time hit _Frozen_ — that never has a $100-million weekend. Worldwide, _Days of Future Pas_t is doing fine: $302 million since last Wednesday. e hope not. And in a month, the fourth _Transformers_ opens. It’s the summer’s best bet for a $100-million weekend — and a billion-dollar worldwide bonanza. ### See the _X-Men_ Actors In Days of Present — And Past  Present day Hugh Jackman & 1996 Hugh Jackman 20th Century Fox; Newspix/Getty Images  Present day Patrick Stewart & 1970 Patrick Stewart 20th Century Fox; Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images  Present day Ellen Page & 2005 Ellen Page 20th Century Fox; J. Vespa—WireImage/Getty Images  Present day Jennifer Lawrence & 2007 Jennifer Lawrence 20th Century Fox; Mirek Towski—WireImage/Getty Images  Present day Peter Dinklage & 2003 Peter Dinklage 20th Century Fox; J. 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