Box Office Results: Maleficent Casts $170.6 Million Spell Worldwide

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Walt Disney Pictures’ Maleficent performed better than expected and took over the worldwide box office with an estimated $170.6 million global opening. It marks the biggest ever Angelina Jolie live-action opening domestically, internationally and globally. Domestically, the Robert Stromberg-directed action adventure debuted to $70 million from 3,948 locations, while the overseas take was $100.6 million (almost 40% ahead of Oz The Great and Powerful). Also starring Sharlto Copley, Elle Fanning, Sam Riley, Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple and Lesley Manville, Maleficent received a CinemaScore of A. IMAX accounted for $9 million of the global box office ($6.7 million domestically and $2.3 million internationally). Budgeted at $175 million, the film won’t be opening in China until June 20th and in Japan on July 4th.

With this weekend?s global box office take, Disney has crossed the $2 billion box office mark worldwide with an estimated $2.055 billion ($1.419 million internationally and $636 million domestically) after just five months.

In its second weekend of release, 20th Century Fox’s X-Men: Days of Future Past has surpassed the $459.4 million grossed by X-Men: The Last Stand to become the biggest film in the franchise. The $200 million Bryan Singer-directed film added $32.6 million in second place domestically to push its total to $162.1 million and it brought in another $95.5 million internationally for an overseas total of $338.1 million. The global total now stands at $500.2 million.

Debuting to a disappointing $17.1 million in third place domestically was Seth MacFarlane’s R-rated A Million Ways to Die in the West. Co-starring Charlize Theron, Liam Neeson, Amanda Seyfried, Giovanni Ribisi, Sarah Silverman and Neil Patrick Harris, the $40 million Universal comedy debuted in 3,158 theaters but was unable to get close to the $54.5 million earned by MacFarlane’s Ted two years ago.

Dropping down two spots to fourth, Warner Bros. and Legendary’s Godzilla earned $12.2 million domestically its third weekend to bring its total to $174.7 million. The international box office for the film stands at $166.6 million and worldwide total has reached $341.3 million. Godzilla cost about $160 million to make.

Rounding out the top five domestically was Warner Bros.’ Blended, starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, which added $8.4 million its second weekend for a total of $29.6 million. It was followed by Universal’s Neighbors in sixth place with $7.7 million and a total of $128.6 million after four weeks in theaters.

In seventh place, Sony Pictures’ The Amazing Spider-Man 2 brought in $3.8 million its fifth weekend in domestic theaters for a total of $192.7 million. Internationally, the film added $11.2 million to push its overseas total to $497.3 million. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has grossed $690 million worldwide, which is far behind The Amazing Spider-Man‘s $757.3 million from 2012.

Also, Frozen continues its amazing run in Japan where it will be the #1 film for the 12th consecutive weekend, crossing $200 million, with only a -15% drop from last weekend. It currently stands as the largest Disney film of all-time in Japan (live action and animation, including Pixar) and has now moved up to be the #3 movie of all-time in Japan, passing Harry Potter and the Sorcerer?s Stone. Worldwide, Frozen has earned $1.232 billion.

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