Latest X-Men Movie Earns Low in US Theaters

A lot of news sites like this one is making headlines that X-Men: Apocalypse earned $26.4 million on Friday in the US and is expected to have an estimated earnings total of $90 million by Monday.

Est. US earnings - $90 million
Est current Global earnings - $110 million
Est. Production Cost (sans marketing & distribution) - $180 million

Conventional wisdom states that the movie must earn more than double its production cost to break even (to cover marketing, et al), before it actually starts to profit. At the rate this is going, and with comparisons to Deadpool, it's not looking good for the franchise.

The call for FOX to re-negotiate with Marvel the same way Sony did for Spider-Man is getting louder.

Meanwhile, Olivia Munn, who plays Psylocke in the film, is begging to be added to the upcoming X-Force film with Deadpool.

As much as I enjoy Olivia Munn from her days as a host on Attack of The Show, she's saying this because she knows how screwed up she was when she turned down the role as Deadpool's girlfriend and went for the role of Psylocke instead. Now she desperately wants to get hired for a Deadpool role because of how much a big hit that movie is compared to X-Men: Apocalypse.