{"id":20885,"date":"2014-05-27T08:08:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T08:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=20885"},"modified":"2014-05-26T17:09:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T17:09:07","slug":"x-men-crush-godzilla-at-us-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=20885","title":{"rendered":"X-Men crush Godzilla at US box office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\">X-Men: Days of Future Past has defeated Godzilla at the US box office, taking an estimated $91m (\u00a354m).<\/p>\n<p>With totals expected to top more than $110m (\u00a365m) over the Memorial Day weekend, the film has left last week&#8217;s number one movie in its wake.<\/p>\n<p>Brit director Gareth Edwards&#8217; monster movie earned $31.4m (\u00a318.6m) bringing its total US tally to $149m (\u00a388.4m) since its release.<\/p>\n<p>Blended, starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, took the third spot.<\/p>\n<p>The rom-com, which sees Sandler and Barrymore reunite on the big screen for a third time, took a disappointing $14.2m (\u00a38.4m).<\/p>\n<p>Seth Rogen and Zac Efron comedy Neighbors took $14m (\u00a38.3m), taking it over the $100m (\u00a359.3m) in the US while The Amazing Spider-Man 2 rounded out the top five with $8m (\u00a34.7m)in its fourth weekend on release.<\/p>\n<p>Fears that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-27282014\">a series of sexual assault claims<\/a>\u00a0filed against X-Men director Bryan Singer would harm the film&#8217;s box office proved to be unfounded as its takings gave it the fifth biggest Memorial Day weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The filmmaker, who denies the charges, even dropped out of doing any press interviews for the film.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for box-office tracker Rentrak, said: &#8220;Rarely do outside situations impact the box office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The true fans, all they care about is the movie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The film, a time-travelling sequel to the 2011 reboot of the X-Men franchise sees Wolverine, played by Hugh Jackman, being sent from a dystopian future back to 1973 to save the future of mutantkind.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X-Men: Days of Future Past has defeated Godzilla at the US box office, taking an estimated $91m (\u00a354m). With totals expected to top more than $110m (\u00a365m) over the Memorial Day weekend, the film has left last week&#8217;s number one movie in its wake. Brit director Gareth Edwards&#8217; monster movie earned $31.4m (\u00a318.6m) bringing its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[34,6],"class_list":["post-20885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ghana-standards-authority","tag-togbe-afede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}