Maleficent casts a spell at the box office

Disney's Maleficent survived an onslaught of bad reviews and lured its main demographic target, women & families, to buy tickets for this 'Sleeping Beauty' live-action retale at the estimated tune of $70 million, which is much better than what Snow White & The Huntsmen did in its opening, but way, waaaaay less than the opening of Tim Burton's &Johnny Depp's Alice in Wonderland. It is tad lower than the domestic opening of last year's Oz The Great & Powerful even though it did much better than that film overseas with a $100million opening. This is by far Angelina Jolie's best opening ever.

Falling 64% on its second week with $32 million is X-Men: Days of Future Past which biggest threat is not the Sentinels, but weaker weekly domestic grosses. The Fox film is not holding as well as its great reviews were expecting. So far has grossed domestically $162.1 million and it might finish its run between $200 & $230 million, below the final numbers of X-Men: The Last Stand. But don't feel so bad about the mutants: worldwide this is already the franchise's most successful film having grossed so far, and counting, over $500 million and it can finish with close to $600 million.

A Million Ways to Die in The West just did that: it died upon arrival with a dismal $17 million and will finish its run with way less than what TED did in its opening.

In the fourth spot Godzilla continues its descending numbers with $12.2 million. So far the monster movie has grossed $174 million domestically and $374 million worldwide. Final numbers tomorrow.

 

Thanks panchy. More big movies will be released in june: Edge of Tomorrow and Transformers are examples. It's a big fight for the audiances.

 

Dude you spelled awediances wrong.

 

You meant audiosenses?

 

Update:

Maleficent actual numbers were slightly lower, $69.4 million; X-Men: Days of Future Past a tiny bit higher or $32.5 million; A Million Ways to Die in The West also a bit lower $16.7 million