20th Century Fox’s new X-Men movie Dark Phoenix is already leaving theaters.
After slugging along with disappointing box office numbers for the past three weeks, 20th Century Fox has decided to finally pull the plug on its final X-Men film. According to Exhibitor Relations, Dark Phoenix will lose 1,667 theaters in its third week. Last weekend, X-Men: Dark Phoenix only made $3.6 million at the North American box office. The movie’s total gross currently stands at just over $60 million, which is very lackluster for a blockbuster with an estimated budget of around $200 million (excluding marketing costs).
For a franchise that’s been so successful, this is definitely not the way Fox wanted to wrap things up.
Fire extinguished. X-MEN: DARK PHOENIX will lose 1,667 theaters (-44%) in just its 3rd week of release.
— Exhibitor Relations Co. (@ERCboxoffice) June 20, 2019
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Written and directed by Simon Kinberg, Dark Phoenix stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Evan Peters, and Jessica Chastain. Here’s the synopsis:
This is the story of one of the X-Men’s most beloved characters, Jean Grey, as she evolves into the iconic DARK PHOENIX. During a life-threatening rescue mission in space, Jean is hit by a cosmic force that transforms her into one of the most powerful mutants of all. Wrestling with this increasingly unstable power as well as her own personal demons, Jean spirals out of control, tearing the X-Men family apart and threatening to destroy the very fabric of our planet. The film is the most intense and emotional X-Men movie ever made. It is the culmination of 20 years of X-Men movies, as the family of mutants that we’ve come to know and love must face their most devastating enemy yet — one of their own.
Dark Phoenix is now playing in theaters.
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