‘Maleficent’ Shatters Competition With $70 Million Box Office Debut

All hail box office queen Angelina Jolie.

The actress’ much hyped movie ‘Maleficent’ has cast quite the spell on the masses and has blasted past early estimates to open with a US gross of $70 million.

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The refreshed take on Disney’s ‘Sleeping Beauty’ story exceeded expectations to win its opening weekend by a wide margin; it easily blazed past ‘X Men: Days Of Future’, which dropped to #2, as well as Seth McFarlane’s ‘A Million Ways To Die In The West’.

An impressive feat, the numbers serve as the biggest opening of Jolie’s career, and re-affirm her status as a major draw – four years on from her last effort 2010’s ‘The Tourist’.

‘Maleficent’ tells the classic narrative from the magical villain’s perspective — one the masses are clearly keen to lap up.

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