Hugh Jackman’s third Wolverine adventure delivers the best opening for an X-Men movie as Lego Batman blocks the rise of Viceroy’s House
The winner: Logan
With a debut of £9.44m including previews of £2.50m, Logan has delivered the biggest UK opening for an X-Men movie. The third Wolverine film opened comfortably ahead of 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine (£6.66m, including £1.87m in previews) and 2013’s The Wolverine (£4.69m including £939,000 in previews).
Not counting the three Wolverine films, there have been six X-Men movies: the original trilogy (2000, 2003, 2006); the two films featuring a new cast (2011, 2016); and Days of Future Past (2014), which combined both sets of actors. Among that sextet, Days of Future Past was by far the most successful, with £27.1m in total. X-Men 2 (£20.7m) is the only other film in the whole franchise to crack £20m here. The Wolverine is the lowest commercial achiever, with a UK total of £13.8m.
Days of Future Past began in May 2014 with £9.14m, including previews of £1.59m. That means that, looking strictly at weekend takings, Logan falls short of the franchise champion’s debut. Still, Marvel and Fox can be happy that Logan is performing almost at the level of the only X-Men film to combine all of the mutant franchise’s most popular cast members.
Logan has delivered the second biggest debut of 2017, behind Sing (£10.49m). However, if previews are stripped out of the tallies, Logan earns top honours, with a £6.95m weekend, compared with £6.29m for Sing.
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