LOS ANGELES — A team of mutants overpowered one massive mutant monster at the box office during the weekend.
Fox-Marvel’s “X-Men: Days of Future Past” debuted with $91 million, beating last weekend’s No. 1 hit, the Warner Bros. sci-fi adventure “Godzilla,” which earned $31.4 million in its second weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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The film brings together a massive star-studded cast including Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Peter Dinklage and Ellen Page.
“Days of Future Past” is estimated to earn nearly $110 million over the four-day extended holiday weekend, which would make it the fifth highest Memorial Day opener, just after last year’s $117 million-grossing “Fast & Furious 6.”
“Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” holds as the highest Memorial holiday debut ever with $140 million in 2007.
It appears the defamatory press “Days of Future Past” director Bryan Singer has received due a sexual assault lawsuit didn’t deter fans from flocking to the theater.
A federal judge in Hawaii will consider whether to throw out the lawsuit against Singer after his attorneys last week presented information that neither the filmmaker nor his accuser were in the state at the time of the alleged assault. Michael Egan III, a former child model, claims Singer abused him in Hawaii in 1999 when Egan was 17.
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