We just got word from our Sony source that the final Spider-Man 3 opening weekend numbers are BIGGER than first reported.
$151 million Domestic
$231 million International
$382 million Worldwide
#1 Spidey Has Red Hot Wkd: $60M U.S. & $85M Intl But No Record. Globally $622M!
SUNDAY AM: This weekend, Sony's Webbed Wonder was red hot at the box office if not in the record books, earning $60 million in North America its second weekend out from 4,252 theaters, still the widest U.S. release ever in film history. No, that gross didn't set a precedent.
But approximately 10 days after its debut, Spider-Man 3 ticket sales are far out-pacing the 2002 performance of the original Spider-Man and its 2004 sequel -- SM1 was at $223M after week 2 and SM2 was at $225M. Like other contemporary mega franchises, the threequel's second week drop of 60% -- to be expected after last weekend's nearly round-the-clock screenings -- is in line with the kind of decline experienced by Pirates of the Carribean 2 in its 2nd weekend at the box office. "Gravity does take a hold to some degree in the second week as the movie settles back into a more predictable box office pattern of solid returns," a Sony spokesman says. For comparison purposes, P2 took in $64 million its second weekend out, or down -52% from its phenomenal opening. SM3 earned $17 million Friday (-72%) and $25.1 mil Saturday (-51%) and a projected $18 mil Sunday.
Spidey's new domestic cume is a lightning-fast $242 million. Internationally, the pic did $85.5 mil for a giant new cume of $380 mil. That means worldwide Spider-Man 3 has made $622 mil. So it's certain the threequel will race by previous Spider-Mans with the biggest being the original at $821 mil globally. Meanwhile, there's great news for DreamWorkds Animation's upcoming blockbuster Shrek The Third which opens next weekend: obvious pent-up demand at the box office for a 'toon. That's because Disney's Meet The Robinsons jumped into 9th place even after 7 weeks out.
As for this Friday through Sunday, the Spidey alternative was Fox Atomic's London zombie pic 28 Weeks Later which at No. 2 did slightly less than the low teens experts predicted: it had a $9.5 million opening weekend. And the critics panned #3 Morgan Creek / Universal's Georgia Rule, but even the combined star wattage of Lindsay Lohan, Felicity Huffman and Jane Fonda couldn't help it debut better than only $5.9 mil from 3,106 playdates. Meanwhile, Tobey Maguire and the gang sucked the air out of the rest of this weekend's B.O.: Top 10 is here.
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bomba am totalled..
$151 million Domestic
$231 million International
$382 million Worldwide
#1 Spidey Has Red Hot Wkd: $60M U.S. & $85M Intl But No Record. Globally $622M!
SUNDAY AM: This weekend, Sony's Webbed Wonder was red hot at the box office if not in the record books, earning $60 million in North America its second weekend out from 4,252 theaters, still the widest U.S. release ever in film history. No, that gross didn't set a precedent.
But approximately 10 days after its debut, Spider-Man 3 ticket sales are far out-pacing the 2002 performance of the original Spider-Man and its 2004 sequel -- SM1 was at $223M after week 2 and SM2 was at $225M. Like other contemporary mega franchises, the threequel's second week drop of 60% -- to be expected after last weekend's nearly round-the-clock screenings -- is in line with the kind of decline experienced by Pirates of the Carribean 2 in its 2nd weekend at the box office. "Gravity does take a hold to some degree in the second week as the movie settles back into a more predictable box office pattern of solid returns," a Sony spokesman says. For comparison purposes, P2 took in $64 million its second weekend out, or down -52% from its phenomenal opening. SM3 earned $17 million Friday (-72%) and $25.1 mil Saturday (-51%) and a projected $18 mil Sunday.
Spidey's new domestic cume is a lightning-fast $242 million. Internationally, the pic did $85.5 mil for a giant new cume of $380 mil. That means worldwide Spider-Man 3 has made $622 mil. So it's certain the threequel will race by previous Spider-Mans with the biggest being the original at $821 mil globally. Meanwhile, there's great news for DreamWorkds Animation's upcoming blockbuster Shrek The Third which opens next weekend: obvious pent-up demand at the box office for a 'toon. That's because Disney's Meet The Robinsons jumped into 9th place even after 7 weeks out.
As for this Friday through Sunday, the Spidey alternative was Fox Atomic's London zombie pic 28 Weeks Later which at No. 2 did slightly less than the low teens experts predicted: it had a $9.5 million opening weekend. And the critics panned #3 Morgan Creek / Universal's Georgia Rule, but even the combined star wattage of Lindsay Lohan, Felicity Huffman and Jane Fonda couldn't help it debut better than only $5.9 mil from 3,106 playdates. Meanwhile, Tobey Maguire and the gang sucked the air out of the rest of this weekend's B.O.: Top 10 is here.
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