It’s been a little over a month since The Wolverine hit theaters, how is it stacking up to X-Men: Origins: Wolverine? A movie which left a bad taste in a lot of people’s mouths and seriously endangered The Wolverine’s chances to do anything but flop.
(all prices in US dollars and courtesy of Box Office Mojo)
X-Men: Origins: Wolverine
- Production Budget: $150m
- Domestic Total Gross: $180m
- Foreign Total Gross: $193m
- Total Gross: $373m
- Opening Weekend: $85m
- Opening Theater Count: 4,099 theaters
- Drop off after opening weekend: 67.2%
- Total Run: 22 weeks
The Wolverine (so far)
- Production Budget: $120m
- Domestic Total Gross: $125m
- Foreign Total Gross: $226m
- Total Gross: $351m
- Opening Weekend: $53m
- Opening Theater Count: 3,924 theaters
- Drop off after opening weekend: 59.9%
- Run So Far: 5 weeks
So, while The Wolverine is not a runaway success as some recent superhero movies, it’s not doing too bad. It opened softer than Origins, likely because of buyer wariness. But it retained a higher percent of ticket sales in the second weekend. For comparison, Avengers had a 50.3% drop off in its second week, Iron Man 3 was 58.4%.
Internationally, Wolverine has already surpassed Origins which means that in only 5 weeks the film is only $22m short of making more money than Origins, and on a budget that was 30m less. I can’t be positive, but I think they can call this a win. Maybe not a Gold Medal win, but hey, Bronze Medal is still a medal.
X-Men: The (fan fic) Series 
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