Maleficent Lords Over Weekend Box Office
Disney cast a spell over theaters with Maleficent, the dark retelling of the classic Sleeping Beauty fairy tale. The film, which stars Angelina Jolie as the legendary villainess, is expected to earn 70 million in its opening weekend, according to Box Office Mojo. Though TIME critic Richard Corliss wrote that nearly everything about the movie was "a dismaying botch"  with the exception of Jolie  the film's flaws clearly didn't stop moviegoers from showing up en masse. PHOTOS Angelina Jolie's Career in Pictures, Last week's box-office victor, X-Men Days of Future Past, saw a steep drop from its 91 million opening weekend but is expected to earn 31 million more by the weekend's end. Seth MacFarlane's A Million Ways to Die in the West made a disappointing debut at third place with only an expected 16 million this weekend, almost a third of Ted's 20.6 million opening back in 2012. Box Office Mojo