May 4- 6, Weekend Box Office, Spider-Man 3 makes 150 Million in opening weekend!

[BBQ Platypus]

We'll see how it does in 2 or 3 more weeks, when everyone's friends will tell them not to see it because it's not that good. 

I doubt it.  It didn't hurt Dead Man's Chest - and that was a FAR worse movie than Spider-Man 3, IMO.  It got worse reviews (a Tomatometer of 54% compared with 61% for Spidey).

Of course, Pirates 2 suffered from the exact opposite problem that Spider-Man 3 did - it was only half a movie.

I'll agree with you about the high ticket prices.  However, the prices haven't really changed much since last year (when the record was LAST broken).

[Minnesota]

I'll agree with you about the high ticket prices.  However, the prices haven't really changed much since last year (when the record was LAST broken).

I thought this was a good read:


It's All About Spider-Man 3
by Joal Ryan
Mon, 7 May 2007 02:21:55 PM PDT

Spider-Man 3 didn't lead the weekend box office. It was the weekend box office.

The superhero sequel grossed $151.1 million, per Sony, establishing a new opening-weekend record and earning more in 72 hours than recent hits such as Click, The Departed and Borat made during their entire runs.

As Spider-Man 3 demonstrated, the road to a $151.1 million weekend gross is a pretty easy one. All you do is start off with $59.8 million on a Friday, a new opening-day record, add another $51.3 million on Saturday, another record (for Saturdays), and top it off with $39.9 million on Sunday, yet another record (for Sundays).

See? Simple. And, according to Box Office Mojo's Brandon Gray, unsurprising.

"It's within the range of expectations," Gray said Sunday of Spider-Man 3's debut. "But it is a sensational one."

According to box-office tracker Media by Numbers, some 22.5 million North Americans saw the film over the weekend, based on an average ticket price of $6.70.

Spider-Man 3 moved past the former weekend record holder, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, which set the mark at $135.6 million last July. And it blew past its predecessors, Spider-Man 2 ($88.2 million) and the original Spider-Man ($114.8 million).

So dominant was Spider-Man 3 that, among the weekend's top 12 movies, it accounted for more than 83 percent of all business and helped push the overall box office up 77 percent over the same weekend last year. Add in its overseas ticket sales, and the movie has already grossed $382 million, a new record for a worldwide opening, per  Sony.

Why, if Spider-Man 3 keeps this up, it might even break even.

See, not only is Spider-Man 3 very big business, according to a report in Radar, it is the most expensive movie ever, costing Sony $500 million to make and market. (Sony already has another three Spidey sequels on the drawing board and will have to come up with even more cash to retain the key players.)

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