Box Office: 'Maleficent' In First Place With $70 Million

“Maleficent,” with Angelina Jolie as the Mistress of All Evil in her first starring role in four years, conjured $70 million and dominated the North American box office this weekend.

That displaced the reigning No. 1 film “X-Men: Days of Future Past” — the fifth straight champ to be one-and-done — which finished second with $32.6 million, and blew away the weekend's other wide opener, “A Million Ways to Die in the West.” Seth MacFarlane's raunchy cowboy comedy was third with a disappointing $17 million for Universal.