Not bad reviews, nor deadly swine flu, nor the fact that they'd already watched the movie for free on their computers could keep people out of theaters and away from Hugh Jackman's shirtless upper body this weekend — X-Men Origins: Wolverine made an incredible $87 million in three days, boding well for a sequel and many more Jackman-based Vulture slideshows (unless everyone who saw it drops dead from swine flu, we guess).

The gross wasn't quite good enough to beat X-Men: The Last Stand's $102.8 million in 2006, nor Iron Man's total of $98.6 million in the same weekend last year, but those films likely benefited from not being freely available on the Internet for a month prior to their release. On the whole, we think the leak actually helped, by quashing negative pre-buzz, though Vulture would still probably advise against other studios uploading unfinished work prints of their future tent poles to the Internet weeks early.

Placing a distant second this weekend was Ghosts of Girlfriends Past ($15.3 million), starring Matthew McConaughey, whose naked chest was roundly rejected by moviegoers in favor of Jackman's, and their health.

Weekend Report: ‘Wolverine’ Roars [Box Office Mojo]