Posted by Mathue Shell on May 4th, 2009 in Movies
Surprise? Probably not. Even with an unfinished version of the movie leaked to the internet last month, Wolverine still dominated the weekend’s box office numbers, and clearly wasn’t affected by piracy. People love mutants, people love X-Men, people love Hugh Jackman; it’s not hard to see why people went to see this movie.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine topped the charts this weekend with $87 million! I think we can say the movie is a success. Obviously the movie is still going to make much, much more money before leaving theaters. I think this gives a good sign to 20th Century Fox to hurry up and get X-Men Origins: Magneto into theaters.
Though Wolverine had a great opening weekend, with all the other big movies coming out this Summer, I doubt that’s going to be the highest opening weekend number we see.
