Dark Phoenix has the worst opening of all X-Men movies ever

Suggesting that some twenty-something super-powerful with grudges to endure are not the only disasters that currently affect one of Hollywood's oldest comic book franchises, Variety reports today that films recently released in theaters Dark Phoenix is on track to have the smallest national opening of any of the 12 X-Men X-Men movies. (And yes, they usefully note: This includes underperforming artists like James Mangold Wolverine.)

according to Mojo Box OfficeSimon Kinberg's coda to the entire dang mutant super-franchise yielded only $ 14 million on Thursday and Friday nights – in comparison, X-Men's latest main movie, apocalypse, $ 26 million when it opened on May 27, 2016, and the best-performing franchise, Deadpool 2, shot $ 53 million on its first day in theaters. This disappointing performance comes after a particularly troubled production. Kinberg, who for the first time directed a series he had written and produced for years, extensive times on the film, including, it seems, the exchange of his third act, which prevented him from going out of the cinema for more than a year.

Dark Phoenix will be presented as the grand finale of Fox's X-Men film series dating back to the 2000s X Men, in advance of all that Disney will do with these characters in the years to come. But the public certainly does not treat it as another End of Game; Rather than announcing this as a cultural event or a touchstone, it seems to be the most important thing to come up against shrugs and loud cries: "Hey, have not they done that already?