“Spider-Man 3” continued to shatter box-office records over the weekend. After having the largest opening day in markets across the world, the third installment of the Marvel blockbuster franchise shattered the opening-day and opening-weekend box-office records domestically.
The third “Spider-Man” film took in $59 million dollars Friday on its way to a record-setting $148 million box-office take for the entire weekend.
The totals put Spidey ahead of Captain Jack Sparrow, who last year shattered box-office records for the opening weekend of “Pirate of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl.” The web-slinger and Captain Jack will go head-to-head for box-office dominance when the third installment of the “Pirates” franchise opens on May 25.
Globally, the film also shattered records, taking in $353 million world-wide over the weekend.
“Spider-Man 3” easily eclipsed everything else at the box-office over the weekend. The second place film “Disturbia” took in just under six million dollars for the weekend.
With the third “Shrek” film still over a week away, it looks as if “Spidey” could rule the box-office next weekend as well, putting the film on pass $200 million in ticket sales. The film, which cost around $250 million could make that back by the end of next weekend, which should make studio heads at Sony and Columbia Pictures very happy.
The big box-office for “Spider-Man 3” also bodes well for the summer blockbuster season for Hollywood. With the big take of “Spider-Man 3” and a number of other big films on the horizon, Hollywood projects it could pass $10 billion in ticket sales this year.
There is a report in slashfilm that the US box office is actually $151 million, $3m over the initial report. The worldwide figure has been adjusted to $382m
http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/05/07/breaking-spider-man-3-numbers-bigger-than-first-reported/