X-Men: Apocalypse Opens With More Than $100 Million Internationally

While Angry Birds may have taken the top spot at the domestic box office this weekend, the international box office was all about X-Men: Apocalypse.

The film raked in more than $103 million in 75 markets, taking the #1 spot at the box office in 71 markets.

Variety reports that the movie earned the biggest Fox opening weekend ever in Philippines ($4.9 million), India ($3.5 million), Indonesia ($3.1 million), Singapore ($3 million), Thailand ($2.7 million) and Colombia ($1.9 million).

Apocalypse enters the marketplace in the U.S. next weekend with sky-high expectations; the last two Fox/Marvel X-Men collaborations have had giant international success, making X-Men: Days of Future Past the highest-grossing X-Men film to date, followed by Deadpool overtaking that record. Deadpool even managed to overtake X-Men: The Last Stand for the biggest X-movie at the domestic box office, a record that had held for nearly a decade.

Both Deadpool and X-Men: Days of Future Past earned more money at the international box office than in North America, so while this huge international opening might not be a guarantee of domestic success (critics aren't being overly kind to the movie), it's certainly a good indicator.

X-Men: Apocalypse is the ninth film in the X-Men franchise, and the fourth to be directed by Bryan Singer. The film features a screenplay by Simon Kinberg, and stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Isaac, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Olivia Munn, Evan Peters, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp, Lucas Till, Josh Helman, Lana Condor and Ben Hardy.

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