Estimated Box Office Gross: $900 million We, as a collective audience, sometimes take the X-Men movie franchise for granted. Hollywood has been churning these movies out for well over a decade now, and - for the most part - they've all proven worth the price of admission. You just kind of expect a new X-Men movie to come along every now and again. The hype doesn't enter the same sort of territory that other, bigger and more popular franchises do, but audiences like them. With that in mind, then, there's no good reason why X-Men: Apocalypse - coming off the back of X-Men: Days Of Future Past, which made $748 million at the box office - won't end up as one of the 10 highest-grossing movies of 2016. Days Of Future Past did an excellent job in widening the X-Men movie fanbase, after all. People who had no idea that they liked X-Men figured it out, and that can only be good for Apocalypse. There's another big reasons this might prove to be a big one: Apocalypse stars Oscar Issac as its titular villain, an actor who is set to become a household name in the next few weeks given that he plays one of Star Wars: The Force Awakens' lead characters.
Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.
