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Four years since the world last saw Jolie in a lead live-action role, the star returned to winning ways in Maleficent with a career-best launch courtesy of Disneys fantasy romp.Disneys Sleeping Beauty spin-off about redemption was powerful enough to dethrone X-Men: Days Of Future Past in its second session and also rules the international arena through a $100.6m launch in 47 territories.The film did not earn universal recognition from the critics, but the audience has spoken and it delivered new records for a Jolie film in North America, internationally and worldwide. IMAX screens contributed around $6.7m of the domestic result.Foxs latest X-Men saga slipped to number two and has reached $162.1m after two weekends and remains on course to overtake 2009s X-Men Origins: Wolverine $179.9m within days.The final tallies of X2: X-Men United $214.9m, 2003 and X-Men: The L
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