WhileLoganonly had a brief one-time run atop the box office a few weeks ago,Hugh Jackman’s final Wolverine movie is still going strong, passing another box office milestone over the weekend. While it dropped to third place with $17.8 million, that domestic take and its international tally were enough to push it over the $500 million worldwide box office plateau. The movie currently stands at $183.4 million domestic and $339.3 million from international markets, for a worldwide tally of $523.6 million, from a $97 million budget.
Box Office Mojoalso has an interesting breakdown of theWolverine franchise, comparingLogantoHugh Jackman’s other two stand-alone Wolverine movies, 2009’sX-Men Origins: Wolverineand 2013’sThe Wolverine, neither of which achieved the kind of critical and commercial success thatLoganhas already achieved. After just three weeks in theaters,Loganhas already surpassed the domestic, foreign and worldwide totals for bothX-Men Origins: WolverineandThe Wolverine. This is likely becauseLogandidn’t suffer a massive second-weekend drop like its predecessors, withX-Men Origins: Wolverinesuffering a massive 69.1% drop back in 2009, whileThe Wolverinedropped 59.9%.Logandropped 56.9% in its second weekend, where it lost to the over-performingKong: Skull Island.
As far as theX-Men franchiseas a whole is concerned,Loganis currently the fifth highest-grossing film domestically (out of 10 films) and fourth worldwide. It will likely passX2: X-Men United($214.9 million),X-Men: The Last Stand($234.3 million) andX-Men: Days of Future Past($233.9 million) domestically to grab second place on the franchise’s domestic charts, behind last year’s box office juggernautDeadpool. Since the film has already opened in practically every international territory already, except for Japan, arriving on June 1, there likely won’t be any big box office jumps forLogan, and it seems unlikely that it could catchDeadpoolon either the franchise’s domestic ($363 million) or worldwide ($783 million) charts.
Still, this is an important box office milestone, and one that proves the success of 20th Century Fox’sR-rated superheromovieDeadpoolwas certainly not a fluke or anomaly. It remains to be seen how the studio plans to capitalize on this sudden surge of popularity for R-rated material, but they are currently developing spin-offs such asGambitandX-Force, both of which could easily be crafted for an R-rated release. The studio also hasThe New Mutantsin the works, plus another unspecifiedX-Menmovie that is believed to be set in the 1990s, following the characters from the prequel trilogyX-Men: First Class,X-Men: Days of Future Pastand last year’sX-Men: Apocalypse.
There has also been talk that the studio may try to build a movie around young starDafne Keen, who won rave reviews for her performance asX-23, in her feature film debut. SinceLoganis set in the year 2029, farther into the future than any otherX-Menmovie before it, it would likely have to be another stand-alone film that wouldn’t connect to the studio’s 90s-set movie, or likely any of the studio’s other projects, since the upcoming sequelDeadpool 2along with the spin-offsX-ForceandGambit, are believed to be set in present day. Hopefully we’ll have more about the future of theX-Menfranchise soon, as the studio continues to reap the box office rewards with the success ofLogan.
