BOX OFFICE: THE WOLVERINE Opens With $55 Million For A Worldwide Cume Of $141 Million

♪♫ I'm hunting in the woods again. With claws of adamantium. These mutton chops can cut through any thingggggg!!!

I'll slice the wings right off a bee, and cut that limb right off that tree. I'm not a circus freak! I'm Wolverine!!!!!!!! ♪♫

so much for these franchises I guess fox will continue with young Magneto and company after this reboot coming from Days of Futures past. Then they will also have X force, New Fantastic Four, Apocalypse used in a thanos like way same way with Mr. Sinister, and maybe more wolverine films although they should go magneto and cable way with movies from hear on out. Take it a new direction the villain should be their guy from here on out.

I love waking up to the smell of under performing X films. Blame Fox for completely mismanaging the X-Men franchise as a whole.

Mariko saves Wolvie. Pepper saves Tony. Catwoman kills Bane. Nov 13 = Jane Foster is worthy to lift the hammer and saves Thor. You heard it here first.

X-Men 2 and X-Men: First Class are still two of the best comic book films. Quit crying about Fox. Some changes are needed to make a film work. A comic is a comic. A film is a film. They're different and some changes are necessary.

Good news :D

@BruceLeroy:

Ikr? Gives you the same boost as a good, strongly brewed pot of joe. :-)

Fox-lovers? never heard that term before.

They're rebooting the series with Days of Future Past.

I think people are simply tired of wolverine hugging the spotlight.

I enjoyed the movie, but unfortunately it didn't blow me away and I just don't think there was enough there to get audiences really excited about it. We've seen Hugh Jackman running around in his beater or shirtless in four films already. It's gotten stale.

Not sure if a full-on reboot is needed at this stage or not, but it is clear that FOX needs to use DoFP to take the franchise in a different direction. New threats, focus on other characters besides Wolverine (even the general public is burned out on him at this point), more nods to the comics (like costumes, for example), etc.

The easiest thing for them to do is probably to have DoFP establish an alternate timeline (or rather make the X1-3 films and the two Wolverine films an alternate timeline). This allows them to continue making First Class sequels in the past (introducing young versions of Cyclops, Jean, Storm, etc., in the 80s), as well as do a "soft" relauch where they recast everyone and do a big 'Uncanny X-men' film that kind of hits the ground running (i.e, not a retread of the origin story).

They could keep Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, but if they recast everyone else they'd probably go younger so it might be kind of off if he's in his mid to late 40s and the rest of the cast in their 30s. Plus his deal is up after DoFP and they have to renegotiate with him. After The Wolverine posting such lackluster box office results I'm not sure it's in FOX's best interest to shell out the big bucks to lock him in as Wolverine for 3 or 4 more films personally. We'll see I suppose...

No surprise here.

I'm sure DOFP will make a ton of money. Especially with that after credit scene

It's no surprise. Its like me and my friends are talking about going to see The Wolverine today but no one has the drive to actually get up and go see it. It's like there's nothing about the movie that just out right excites us. It's like ever since X3 I love for X-men movies just went down the toilet. We enjoyed the first class movie but like i said they just don't excite us. It's get to the point to where it just feels like Fox is just Milking the Franchise.