“Arriving in theaters, summer 2014!” The summer months have always been the time Hollywood releases its big budget, big action movies in hopes of bringing in the big money. Summer 2014 is no exception. With titles like Captain America, Spider-Man, and Transformers hitting theaters this summer there is serious potential to pull down some big box office numbers. Movie making is a high risk industry with the potential of high reward. Hundreds of millions of dollars are invested in hopes of a return of hundreds of million and even billions. Only time will tell if a movie will perform to expectations or flop.

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

X-Men: Days of Future Past

             X-Men: Days of Future Past is the 7th installment of the X-Men movie franchise. Including spin-off movies X-Men Origins: Wolverine and The Wolverine. Starting in 2000 with X-Men, directed by Bryan Singer, this movie was met with positive reviews and did very well at the box-office. X-Men 2: X-Men united was also directed by Bryan Singer, and did well with audiences and the box-office. Singer left the franchise after X-Men 2 and Brett Ratner took over as director for X-Men: The Last Stand. 
          X-Men: The Last Stand was met with mostly negative reviews and did not go over as well with audiences and critics as did the first two X-Men movies. The Last Stand was followed up with a Wolverine spin-off movie, X-Men Origins: Wolverine. This movie also failed to hit home with audiences. With two box office hits and two that did not do so well, the future X-Men movie franchise was hanging in the balance. In 2011 director Gavin Hood came on board and helmed X-Men: First Class which was an origin story of Professor X, Magneto, and the first mutants to call themselves X-Men. First Class was a hit with audiences and breathed new, and much needed life, back into the franchise. First Class was followed up with another Wolverine spin-off moves called The Wolverine. This movie followed Logan, a.k.a. Wolverine, in events occurring just after X-Men: The Last Stand. The Wolverine was a hit and the X-Men movies seemed to be back on track.
            On May 23, 2014 we will see Bryan Singer return as director for the latest installment in the X-Men universe; X-Men: Days of Future Past. DoFP is somewhat of a bridging movie, combining the cast of First Class (the young versions of the characters) with the cast of the original trilogy. With a massive budget of $225 million, no doubt to pay the salaries of the ensemble of A-list actors and actresses, DoFP has its work cut out for it at the box office. With the popularity of both casts coming together under one roof, DoFP could prove to be an epic film. Fans of the franchise will be flocking to theaters May 23rd to see if the film delivers. 



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