"X2" Goes Global
Next Friday, the world will be united. At the movies, at least.
X2: X-Men United, the sequel to 2000's super-hit superhero flick, will open in 80 countries on the same day, May 2, 20th Century Fox announced Thursday.
Originally, it had been thought the movie would premiere across much of the globe--everywhere from Argentina to Turkey--over a three-day window, from April 30 to May 2. Now, we all get to wait in the same big, long line. From Botswana to the Republic of Seychelles, off the coast of Africa.
And while you're waiting, in Kazakhstan, perhaps, you might mull the fact that Fox is billing its launch as the largest-ever worldwide opening. The old record was held by Star Wars: Episode 2--Attack of the Clones, which opened in 74 countries on May 16, 2002.
Stateside, X2 reportedly will bow in 3,500 theaters, unspooling on 8,500 screens. (Fox, noting that it's still booking locales, said it doesn't have a theater count yet.) The estimate, per Yahoo! Movies, is in line with the massive rollouts seen by the Harry Potter flicks and Spider-Man.
A whopping 11,000 prints will be struck to meet X2 demands worldwide, according to Thursday's New York Daily News.
"Our film stands in its own universe," director Bryan Singer tells the paper. "It's about more than just the comic characters and their uniforms and good and evil. There's something else going on."
The first X-Men excelled at the box office, taking in more than $300 million worldwide, and making superhero flicks big business. (See: Spider-Man, Daredevil, The Hulk.)
X2 pits the good mutants of Professor X (Patrick Stewart)--Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), Storm (Halle Berry), Rogue (Anna Paquin), etc.--against newbie baddie Stryker (Brian Cox) and veteran baddie Magneto (Ian McKellen).
Much of the cast was on hand Thursday for the film's London premiere.
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