'X-Men' mutants weaken with $56M prequel debut (AP)

LOS ANGELES – Young X-Men don't have the same box-office superpowers as their older selves. "X-Men: First Class" had a solid No. 1 opening with a $56 million weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.

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But the 20th Century Fox prequel chronicling the formative years of the comic-book mutants found smaller audiences than the franchise's first four big-screen adventures, which featured older versions of the X-Men. Debut weekends for the last three "X-Men" flicks ranged from $85.1 million to $102.8 million. The original "X-Men" opened 11 years ago with $54.5 million, but that would amount to about $80 million today adjusting for ticket-price inflation.

'X-Men' mutants weaken with $56M prequel debut (AP)