“Spider-Man 3” hasn’t even opened yet in the United States and it’s already shattering records.
To combat piracy of the film, Sony has rolled a world-wide release for the expected blockbuster. The film opened Tuesday is 16 overseas markets and brought in $29.15 million on its opening day.
The movie had the best-ever opening in many of the markets tracked, easily beating the previous two “Spider-Man” films that were the record holders.
“‘Spider-Man’ is a worldwide franchise, and the thing we’re most excited about is that in two pretty completely separate parts of the world we’ve gotten off to a great start,” Jeff Blake, Sony vice chairman, said Wednesday. “We certainly hope for the same in North America.”
The two previous films combined for a total of $1.6 billion worldwide, about half of that coming in the United States.
In France, Spider-Man 3 took in $6.8 million on opening day, more than the first-day grosses there for Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2 combined.
It grossed $4.6 million in Germany, $4 million in Italy, $3.7 million in Japan, $3.4 million in South Korea, $1.1 million in the Philippines and $1 million each in Hong Kong and Thailand.
The third installment in director Sam Raimi’s superhero series, Spider-Man 3 reunites Tobey Maguire as the web-slinger, Kirsten Dunst as the love of his life and James Franco as his old pal turned enemy.
Yeaaaaaaaaah.. I’m thinking I am going to pass.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/roeper/365719,05010spider.article
The lines that sink it for me are, “Kirsten Dunst sings in this movie, more than once.” Then a few paragraphs later, “Did I mention the part about Kirsten Dunst singing?”
Wow.
In the movie,Kirsten Dunst also gets fired for her bad singing. Read a little further; you’ve got to give credit for that. Also, on the Today show, she says that while she has had some singing lessons, she knows its not her strength.
As for the rest of the movie, I was pleasantly surprised. Ramini managed to juggle 3 supervilians and 2 girlfriends for Peter both in terms of action and character development. I can see some hardcore fans having issue with the Gwen Stacy/MJ continuity, but aside from that, each characters’ outcome is well supported.
I didn’t hate the movie, but I didn’t love it either.
After seeing the movie, I understand better what they did bringing Sandman in the way they did, but I think it was handled unevenly. If Sandman hadn’t been there, they might have been able to focus more on the conflict between Peter and Harry (which was much more interesting, both before and after the resolution they arrived at), and maybe just use Venom/Eddie as a mirror for what they were going through and the effects it was having, instead of pulling them all together to illustrate the same point.
Also, I think Venom was underused, Gwen Stacy was both underused and a wasted appearance (her character’s usage, not her acting performance), and I was personally disappointed by the story.
The fight scenes were pretty, though, but I don’t think this movie topped the bars set by either the first or the second Spidey movies. I bought the other two on DVD… probably won’t do the same for this one.