X-Men: The Last Stand | |
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Directed by | Brett Ratner |
Written by | Simon Kinberg Zak Penn |
Produced by | Lauren Shuler Donner Ralph Winter Avi Arad |
Starring | Hugh Jackman Halle Berry Ian McKellen Famke Janssen Anna Paquin Kelsey Grammer James Marsden Rebecca Romijn Shawn Ashmore Aaron Stanford Vinnie Jones Patrick Stewart |
Cinematography | Dante Spinotti |
Edited by | Mark Helfrich Mark Goldblatt Julia Wong |
Music by | John Powell |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release dates | May 26, 2006 |
Running time | 104 min. |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $210,000,000[1] |
Box office | $459,256,008 |
X-Men: The Last Stand (also marketed as X3: The Last Stand, or X-Men 3) is a 2006 movie. It is the third movie based on the Marvel Comics' X-Men superhero comic books. The story takes place after X-Men (2000) and X2 (2003). Brett Ratner directed the movie. He took over when Bryan Singer decided to direct Superman Returns. The movie is about a "mutant cure" and the resurrection of Jean Grey, who seemed to have died in X2. The movie is partially based on two X-Men comic book stories: writer Chris Claremont's and artist John Byrne's "Dark Phoenix Saga" in The Uncanny X-Men (1980) and writer Joss Whedon's and artist John Cassaday's six-issue "Gifted" story in Astonishing X-Men (2004).
The movie was released May 26, 2006 in the United States and Canada. It was released one or two days earlier in more than 20 other countries. The movie did well at theaters. It earned $45.1 million on its first day. This is the fourth-highest opening day gross. Its opening weekend gross of $103 million is the eighth highest ever.[1]