X-Men Days of Future Past Hauls in $111 Million Opening Weekend

Critics and fans alike have hailed X-Men Days of Future Past thus far, and the box office numbers exceeded expectations in the first weekend with a $111 million debut.

Bryan Singer's latest superhero film accumulated the total over the extended Memorial Day Weekend. Godzilla was second with $39.4 million ($156.8 million total domestic gross). The Adam Sandler comedy Blended earned $18.2 million in its debut, while Neighbors placed fourth with $17.2 million ($116.9 million total domestic gross). The Amazing Spider-Man 2 dropped to fifth for the weekend with $10 million ($187.1 million total domestic gross).

Box Office Mojo adds Days of Future Past hauled in $91.4 million domestically for the three-day weekend. The $111 million domestic gross plus the $191 million internationally yields an impressive $302 million total with less than a week in theaters.

The $91.4 million figure did not surpass Captain America: The Winter Soldier from earlier this year and was just short of The Amazing Spider-Man 2's debut.

[WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS FROM X-MEN DAYS OF FUTURE PAST BELOW]

In other news, the ending of X-Men: Days of Future Past resurrected some of the mutants from the original X-Men trilogy that died during the events of those films. Cyclops, Jean Grey and others are shown walking around Professor Xavier's mutant academy. According to a recent interview with writer Simon Kinberg, the sequel, X-Men: Apocalypse, will feature younger incarnations of those characters.

"It will focus primarily on the First Class cast," Kinberg told The Daily Beast, "but it will certainly have some of the original cast involved, too." Asked if Bryan Singer will return to direct, Kinberg said "that is the plan."

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