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'X2' Speeds to $155 Million Worldwide Opening
http://movies.yahoo.com/news/va/2003...208114600.html
The massively hyped comic book adventure movie "X2: X-Men United" stormed cinemas worldwide over the weekend, earning $155.2 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates issued on Sunday.
The three-day tally included $85.85 million from North America, a figure that propelled the film to No. 4 on the list of openers, behind reigning champion "Spider-Man" and the two "Harry Potter" movies.
The international total was $69.3 million. The film was budgeted at about $110 million.
"X2: X-Men United," a sequel based on the popular Marvel comic books about a pack of ostracized mutant savants, was released by Twentieth Century Fox, a unit of News Corp.'s Fox Entertainment Group Inc . The studio partnered on the film with Marvel Studios, a unit of Marvel Enterprises Inc .
The film's ensemble includes actors Hugh Jackman ("Wolverine"), Halle Berry ("Storm") and Sir Ian McKellen ("Magneto"). The first film in the series, 2000's "X-Men," opened with $54.5 million in North America and went on to earn $157.3 million domestically and more than $290 million worldwide.
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