With this year’s X-Men: Days of Future Past setting a series high haul of $702.2 million (and counting) by close of play on Tuesday, Fox’s mutant superhero franchise has now amassed $3.003 billion at the global box office, with $1.3 billion in domestic ticket sales and $1.7 billion internationally. The Bryan Singer-directed Days of Future Past is also on the verge of overtaking rival superhero flicks The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ($703.2 million) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($710.7 million), which would make it the highest grossing movie of the year so far.
X-Men: Days of Future Past sees X-Men veterans Hugh Jackman (Wolverine), Jennifer Lawrence (Mystique), James McAvoy (Professor X), Michael Fassbender (Magneto), Nicholas Hoult (Beast), Patrick Stewart (Professor X), Ian McKellen (Magneto), Lucas Till (Havok), Halle Berry (Storm), Anna Paquin (Rogue), Ellen Page (Kitty Pryde), Shawn Ashmore (Iceman) and Daniel Cudmore (Colossus) joined in the cast by franchise newcomers Evan Peters (American Horror Story) as Quicksilver, Booboo Stewart (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse) as Warpath, Omar Sy (The Intouchables) as Bishop, Fan Bingbing (Iron Man 3) as Blink, Adan Canto (The Following) as Sunspot, Evan Jonigkeit (The Following) as Toad, Josh Helman (Mad Max: Fury Road) as William Stryker and Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) as Bolivar Trask. Read our reviews here and here.
