X-Men: Days Of Future Past is winning right now.
The movie hit theaters this weekend and quickly shot to the top of the box office charts, pulling in $90.7 million. According to ET Online, this is a major jump for the X-Men franchise. The first film, X-Men, opened in 2000 bringing in $54.4 million. X2 hit theaters three years later, earning $85.5 million. The third installment in the series, X-Men: The Last Stand, raked in a cool $102.7 million, making it the film with the highest grossing opening-to-date.
Despite the decline, X-Men: Days Of Future Past did much better than the other summer films that hit theaters this weekend. Check out ET to see how much Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Godzilla and Blended made.
Speaking of movie news, Seth Rogen recently fired back at a Washington Post critic’s theory that “outsized frat-boy fantasies” such as Neighbors influenced UCSB shooting suspect Elliot Rodger.
“How many students watch outsized frat-boy fantasies like Neighbors and feel, as Rodger did, unjustly shut out of college life that should be full of ‘sex and fun and pleasure’? How many men, raised on a steady diet of Judd Apatow comedies in which the shlubby arrested adolescent always gets the girl, find that those happy endings constantly elude them and conclude, ‘It’s not fair’?”
“Movies may not reflect reality, but they powerfully condition what we desire, expect and feel we deserve from it,” wrote Ann Hornaday.
The actor took to Twitter to fire back at Hornaday’s comments:
.@AnnHornaday I find your article horribly insulting and misinformed.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) May 26, 2014
.@AnnHornaday how dare you imply that me getting girls in movies caused a lunatic to go on a rampage. — Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) May 26, 2014
Seth wasn’t the only one offended by her comments. Director Judd Apatow quickly fired back as well:
“@Sethrogen: .@AnnHornaday I find your article horribly insulting and misinformed.”She uses tragedy to promote herself with idiotic thoughts
— Judd Apatow (@JuddApatow) May 27, 2014
Here is how it all works. Anne says something thoughtless. I say it is wrong then CNN asks everyone to debate and it becomes TV. — Judd Apatow (@JuddApatow) May 27, 2014
I said no. I wonder if Anne can prevent herself from going on and becoming part of how these tragic events become profit centers for media
— Judd Apatow (@JuddApatow) May 27, 2014
Read more over at THR.
This weekend, the world obsessively checked Twitter and Instagram for photos and information about Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s wedding. Everyone who’s anyone was in attendance – everyone, that is, but Lena Dunham.
The hilarious GIRLS actress and director took to Twitter to jokingly express her sorrow about missing the KimYe nuptials.
Was late to Kimye wedding so had to walk around Italian streets for hours. Was cat-called within an inch of my life. Now eating a hoagie.
— Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) May 24, 2014
Gonna try to meet up with them at the party but feel like ‘Ye is pissed I missed ceremony. Walking in late woulda been crazy tho.
— Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) May 24, 2014
She later made it very clear she was only joking for anyone who didn’t get her snarky brand of humor:
Is pretending you’re at Kim & Kanye’s wedding the hackiest joke of 2014 or the most hip-hop-happening area of humor? Remains to be seen!
— Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) May 24, 2014
Either way, the cake is great #kimandkanyewedding
— Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) May 24, 2014
Denzel Washington is back with a brand new film and trust us, you’re going to want to see this one.
Washington is starring in The Equalizer, a remake of a popular old TV show about an ex-commando who fell off the map to enjoy some peace and quiet. Somehow he finds himself drawn to a young girl in need of guidance and protection and winds up facing off with a group of intense Russian gangsters.
Watch as Denzel levels the playing field despite a serious case of OCD in the trailer above.
SOURCE: ET Online, Hollywood Reporter, Us Magazine | PHOTO/VIDEO CREDIT: Sony, WENN