Box office update: 'The Wolverine' claws its way to a
$21 million Friday
This weekend was always going to belong to The Wolverine. As the only
film opening in wide release, James Mangold’s dark take on the clawed mutant
opened strong and walked away with about $21 million on Friday, which includes
the $4 million it made in theaters that began showing the movie at 10 p.m. on
Thursday night. Also, 3,063 out of its 3,924 locations are showing the X-Men pic in 3-D. The $120 million
Hugh Jackman-starrer should easily make at least $60 million by the end of the
weekend, slightly lower than some estimates — including ours — which placed it
in the $70 million range. The opening is not quite as strong as 2009′s X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which had
a $34.4 million Friday, and did not benefit from 3-D surcharges. Out of all the
X-Men films, The Wolverine is tracking on the
low end of the franchise, sitting between 2000′s X-Men
which opened at $20.8 million on a Friday in mid-July, and X-Men: First Class which had a
$21.4 million Friday.
In second place, James Wan’s possession horror movie The
Conjuring experienced a normal 56.6% drop off and made $7.4
million on Friday in 3,022 locations. The modest $20 million flick has made
$69.1 million domestically, and this is only its second weekend in theaters.
Universal’s Despicable
Me 2 took third place on Friday with $4.8 million. In its
four weeks in theaters, the $76 million sequel has made an estimated $295.2
million domestically. By comparison, Monsters University has been in
theaters for six weeks and has made about $253.4 million to date domestically.
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