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Summer doesn’t officially kick off until Memorial Day weekend, and just as folks are heading to the cookouts and parties, just as many are headed to the theaters. The extended weekend is always one of the biggest for new films and this weekend was no different. ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ has scored a massive first week knockout during its opening week. According to reports:
Professor X (old and young) and his friends helped usher in a mighty $111 million domestically for “X-Men’s” first four days in theaters. It now ranks fifth among the top Memorial Day weekend openings of all time, behind last year’s “Fast & Furious 6” ($117 million) and 2006′s “X-Men: The Last Stand” ($122.9 million). The $200 million pic also opened day and date in most major markets internationally to a cool $171.1 million. Technically the seventh installment in the long-running franchise, this super debut bodes well for “X-Men: Apocalypse,” set to open on the same spot on the calendar in 2016.
This news comes just hours after reports that ’12 Years A Slave’ star Lupita Nyong’o is being majorly considered for the role of Storm, now occupied by Halle Berry for the next installment in the X-Men series- ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’:
Simon Kinberg then confirmed that the 2016 film will not feature time-travel despite that being the main plot device in X-Men: Days of future Past. “The Apocalypse story has a lot of different ways of telling stories,” he said. “That was one of the things that I liked about Days of Future Past: Doing a time travel movie where it’s not just sending someone back in time, but actually intercutting between the past and the future that we really haven’t seen in a movie before. Usually you have somebody go back and stay in the past the whole movie. Apocalypse has some, without getting into detail, as you know from the books, has some innovative, different ways of storytelling also.” After commenting on recent Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o being a fan-favorite for the younger iteration of Halle Berry’s Storm—“I’ve certainly been reading about it; she’s a great actress.”
