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X2 Marks 4th Biggest Opening Ever
Sunday, May 4, 2003 12:51 CDT
The Coming Soon! Box Office Report has been updated with this weekend's studio estimates. Stay tuned there for the final figures on Monday afternoon as well.
The mutants ruled the box office this weekend, earning an estimated $85.9 million! 20th Century Fox released X2 in a record 3,741 theaters in North America and the movie averaged an impressive $22,948 per location.
If the estimate holds, X2 will have the fourth biggest opening of all time, trailing Spider-Man ($114.8 million), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone ($90.3 million) and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ($88.4 million).
X2 also earned an estimated $69.3 million internationally for a worldwide total of $155.2 million.
The original X-Men opened with $54.5 million in July of 2000 on its way to $157.3 million at the domestic box office.
Disney's new The Lizzie McGuire Movie, starring Hilary Duff, also gave a strong showing in second place.
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Awesome eh? Wish it beat Spiderman though, I mean Spiderman was a good movie but EXTREMELY overrated plus X2 is 100x the movie Spiderman is.