Zitat: Although X-Men: The Last Stand took a substantial 28% drop in its second day, earning $32.5 million, the estimate for the Friday through Sunday portion of the four-day holiday weekend is $107 million, the largest ever for Memorial Day weekend and the fourth-biggest in box office history. The 20th Century Fox sequel opened in 3,690 theaters and grossed a massive $28,997 per theater.
On the all-time list, X-Men: The Last Stand ranks behind only Spider-Man ($114 million), "Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith" ($108.4 million) and "Shrek 2" ($108 million) for opening weekend gross. None of the other films opened on a holiday weekend.
For Memorial Day openers, "The Last Stand" crushed the previous three-day high of $72 million, set by "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" in 1997. "The Lost World" earned an additional $18 million during the Monday holiday.
X-Men opened to $54 million in 2000 and X2: X-Men United launched with $86 million.http://www.superherohype.com/news/x-mennews.php?id=4303
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Ratner hat schonmal Interesse für Teil 4 bekundet:
Zitat: "I would love to do it," Ratner said. "I love working with these actors, they're fantastic. I loved the experience of making this movie. It's everything you want in a movie -- it's drama, it's action, it's emotion, it's intelligent, it's got everything."
Die Zahlen überschlagen sich ja regelmäßig... solange sie so engagierte Schreiber haben. Fraglich ist nur die Mitwirkung aller Schauspieler, obwohl sich ja gerade Jackman und neuerdings auch wieder Halle Berry ja immer wieder positiv über die Filme äußern!
Ratner über das Ende nach dem Ende, die Bonusszene mit Xaviers Erwachen:
Zitat: "Yeah, the studio didn't even know I did it," Ratner chortled. "I didn't even put it on the schedule. I shot in between set-ups, just went over there and shot it, and then I showed it to the studio and they went 'Oh My God, we love that!' because it keeps Xavier. Look, in the last one, Jean Grey died and then I saw her on the first day of shooting X3, so nobody dies in these movies? What the hell are they talking about?"Stewart und McKellen über die verschiedenen End-Versionen:
Zitat: "I was aware of three endings for this movie, all under different circumstances," confirmed Patrick Stewart when asked about it. "There was the ending in the script, which we all saw. There was a scene, which I shot in the hospital bed, in the first days of filming. It never appeared on paper, there was no call for it, it was never documented, this scene. It never got shot. In other words, we sneaked it in after lunch one day and there were not many people on the set. It was a cut-down crew, and it was all done very hurriedly because they stuck a beard on me over lunch and we shot it. Then Ian called me a few weeks ago and said, 'You won't believe this but they're coming to London and they're going to shoot the final scene of the movie,' which is of course is of interest to me. He said, 'I'm playing chess' and of course I wanted to know, 'Who with?' and he said, 'They won't tell me' but of course there's no one there at all. Könnte es sein, dass Magneto doch seine Kräfte nicht mehr hat, und die Bewegung der Schachfigur vielleicht von Xavier herrührt? Weit hergeholt, ich weiß...
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Avi Arad berichtet, dass man sich trotz des großen Erfolges von X3 (196 Millionen weltweit in 4 Tagen) erst mal auf die Spin-Offs WOLVERINE und MAGNETO kümmert, bevor man überhaupt erwägt, sich Gedanken über einen möglichen vierten Film zu machen!
Zitat: "The first reaction, which we should discard, is here comes 'X-Men 4,'" said Marvel Studios topper Avi Arad. "We're working on 'Wolverine,' which is definitely a continuation, and we have a very interesting script about a young Magneto."Wolverine als Quasi-Fortsetzung... vielleicht trifft er dort ja auch wieder auf Nightcrawler! Alles ist möglich! Und finde ich gut, dass man jetzt nicht übertriebene Pläne schmiedet, sondern erstmal die alten beherzigt!
Zitat: The studio is also exploring a movie with Three Kings director David O. Russell based on the character of Emma Frost, a sexy mutant telepath who can transform her skin into diamonds. She is an X-Men comics regular but was not featured in the movies.
Zitat: "We've also talked about doing something on the kids in (Professor X's) school, focusing on their lives, and less of a global adventure for the team," says Hutch Parker, production president of 20th Century Fox.
BRING IT ON!!!
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klingt nach generation X lieber nicht...
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Sieht so aus als ob aus Emma nichts wird, neu im Rennen ist X-Factor Investigations Forget Emma Frost; what about an X-Factor movie?