On those 2,000+ screens, Dark Phoenix grossed about $3.5 million — not on Friday, but over the whole weekend.
The general malaise around the summer box office is nowhere more evident than on Dark Phoenix, the latest and likely final film in the long-running, hugely-popular X-Men franchise.
Or maybe they thought Jackman gave the X-Men the appropriate ending the franchise deserved with Logan and Dark Phoenix was needlessly dragging things out.
Clearly, audiences were unconvinced they needed to see a second version of “The Dark Phoenix Saga,” and without Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine, they maybe weren’t too interested in seeing any of the X-Men in general this time around.