PhotoLOS ANGELES — Aging “fanboys” and applause from critics propelled “Logan,” an R-rated “X-Men” spinoff, to a fat $85.3 million in domestic ticket sales over the weekend. Fox got the message last year, when its daring R-rated “Deadpool” broke box office records and its rather rote “X-Men: Apocalypse” underperformed. Fox booked “Logan” into 4,071 theaters, a large number for an R-rated film. “Logan,” which cost roughly $100 million to make, not including marketing costs, collected an additional $152.5 million overseas. Despite its best-picture win at the Oscars, “Moonlight” (A24) only collected about $2.5 million from more than 1,500 theaters, its widest release yet, for a new total of $25.4 million.

Source: New York Times March 05, 2017 17:48 UTC