Dark Phoenix had by far the worst opening for an X-Men movie

This sad trombone you hear plays both womp-womp and "taps" for Dark Phoenix. Yes, he had the worst opening of all X Men movie. It was also the worst reviewed by critics. It is launched on the Internet. But we can also focus on some positive aspects because they are few.

First, it is estimated that Simon Kinberg's movie will open about $ 35 million this weekend. This is lower than initially forecast and by far the weakest national opening of the X Men pack. The next top is Wolverine to $ 53 million.

Here's a look at X Men Opening weekends of the franchise at the US / Canada National Box Office, ranked worst to worst:

dead Pool – $ 132,434,639 (2/12/16)
Deadpool 2 – $ 125,507,153 (18/05/18)
X-Men: The Final Clash – $ 102,750,665 (5/26/06)
X-Men: Days of Future Past – $ 90,823,660 (23/05/14)
Logan – $ 88,411,916 (3/3/17)
X2: X-Men United – $ 85,558,731 (5/2/03)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine – $ 85,058,003 (01/05/09)
X Men – $ 54,471,475 (14/07/00)
X-Men: Apocalypse – $ 65,769,562 (27/05/16)
X-Men: First clbad – $ 55,101,604 (03/06/11)
Wolverine – $ 53,113,752 3,924 7/26/13
Dark Phoenix – $ 34 to 35 million (6/7/19)

The theater figures are comparable – some more than Dark Phoenix, a little less, by Box Office Mojo. The time of the year is also quite close. X Men the movies were lucky with the Memorial Day openings but dead Pool also proved that February is perfect if you have a good film in your hands. Dark Phoenix opened a few weekends after Memorial Day, ala X-Men: First clbad in 2011. Things did not go so well.

On the coast. Dark Phoenix currently has a rating of 22% among 221 reviews of Rotten Tomatoes. This is currently the lowest score of the X Men even less than 37% for X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

However, here is some good news: Dark PhoenixThe RT audience score of 2,238 users up to now is 65%. It's better than the 58% for X-Men Origins: Wolverinealthough this movie now has 561,230 user ratings. Dark Phoenix currently corresponds to the public's score of 65% for X-Men: Apocalypse.

If you go to IMDb, Dark Phoenix currently has a rating of 6.0 out of 17.988 users. In comparison, X-Men Origins: Wolverine has a rating of 6.6 and X-Men: Apocalypse at 7.0. So the news is not so good there.

The situation is getting worse at CinemaScore, where Dark Phoenix received a B rating from the viewers interviewed during the opening night. It's also the worst, lower than the B + that both X-Men Origins: Wolverine and X-Men: First clbad have received. X-Men: Apocalypse actually got an A-, same thing as the 2000 X Men.

It's time to move on: the international box office should really help here. Dark Phoenix has a stated production budget of $ 200 million, so the film will have to be huge overseas to make a profit. But technically, it could happen. We will have to wait to see how the film will behave on foreign markets, then see the final global score.

It's not like Fox is planning to do another X Men movie after that, and with Disney / Marvel now in charge of the X Men characters, they could have a bright future in the MCU. But that's the end of the X Men frankness as we knew it, and it's sad to see the thing end with such a groan.

But at least it's not New mutants. (Too early?)

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