“Spider-Man 3” Wastes No Time Breaking Records
Posted May 5, 2007 12:00 pm.
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” Spider-Man 3” was expected to smash many Hollywood records when it was released Friday, and it wasted no time getting to it by recording a $59 million opening day haul, besting the previous all-time high of $55.8 million for ” Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.”
Sony Pictures reported Saturday that the movie took in an additional $45 million overseas on Friday for a worldwide total of $104 million, an unquestioned record for a single-day global gross. The studio declined to comment on the record-breaking success until estimates for the full weekend are available Sunday morning, but by then the “Spider-Man” franchise could reclaim the record for best three-day opening ever.
“That’s why they call him the amazing Spider-Man,” said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Media By Numbers. “Just five years ago, these are numbers we thought we’d never see.”
The first in a long line of summer blockbusters, the film cost $258 million to make and already had a record, opening in 4,252 theatres domestically, less than 100 better than the 4,163 set by ” Shrek 2.” “Spider-Man 3” stars Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker, Kirsten Dunst as Peter’s girlfriend Mary Jane and James Franco as his old friend Harry, now a sworn enemy. Thomas Haden Church and Topher Grace also join the web as two new villains.
