Honestly, our spidey sense saw this coming a mile away: Sony just released the final first-weekend figures for Spider-Man 3, and they’re even bigger than the initial estimates. The movie actually opened with $151.1 million. Yep. That’s $15.5 mil better than the previous best opener, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, and three million smackers more than the studio had originally calculated for Spidey 3. As one high-ranking EW staffer who shall remain nameless just e-mailed me: "As if $148 mil wasn’t impressive enough. Holy s—." Holy s—, indeed, PopWatchers. Holy s—.
May 7
2007
10:16 PM ET
'Spider Man 3': Even more ridiculously huge than we thought this morning
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Safe to bet it will see at least a 50% drop off this coming weekend. At least I can sleep soundly knowing the film won’t make one penny off me.
I bet there will be a decent population of fanboys that will go back for repeat viewings. Besides, even a 60% drop will still be 60 million!
Congrats to Sony! Seriously, because DAMN.
I bet there will be a decent population of fanboys that will go back for repeat viewings. Besides, even a 60% drop will still be 60 million!
This one’s not as good as the first two. There are a couple of very weak plot points. But, the action is good enough. For a PART III, it didn’t suck.
I didn’t like Spider-Man 3; I was thouroughly disappointed. But I’m not saddended by its success. I’m very happy for it. If not for anything, just to insure there WILL be a fourth one, because if they end on that bloated chunk of celluloid, I’d be even more disappointed.
I agree, I was bored throughout much of it. It seemed like there was too much going on and wasn’t polished. Good for Spidey though.
It will be interesting to see how it does in the next few weeks, given that the word of mouth isn’t good.
Too bad it wasn’t very good.
We’re all desperate for a good “Summer Move”. I’ll bet if it had been released mid June, and movies like “Shrek the Third”, “Pirates 3″ “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phenoix” and some of the other summer movies were out, its box office would not have been a fraction of what it was. What was it competing against? I can’t think of another big movie premiering in the past two weekends.
It’s a shame the movie was a complete disaster. I seriously regret sitting through it, I don’t expect that the audiences will line up a lot over the next few weeks. At least no when more family friendly films like Shrek The Third and POTC:AWE are coming. Plus now we have three more Spiderman films to wait for…which can’t be expected to be very good if they can’t keep their cast. Hollywood never learns…
I loved it, my sons loved it, and anybody who didn’t is just trying to sound intelligent. There is a big difference between sounding and being, my friends. Let’s see where you stand on the “other” coming disappointments that aren’t as high profile. The truth hurts, but pace yourself…
I was underwhelmed by this Spider Man, but felt it was one of the better “part III’s” to come out in a while. The scenes with Bruce Campbell were knee slappers, and we know the Lizard is coming in one of the next few flicks. Peter’s suddent ability to flirt with his two other best known comic love interests was cool, as was Thomas Hayden Church’s portrayal of the sandman. I would love to have seen more of the sandman.
I’m with those who believe there will be a part 4. Personally, I’d love to see Sandman return and an intro to either the Lizard or the Black cat.
Ben- just because someone did not like a movie does not mean they are trying to sound intelligent. They just didn’t like the movie! A pretty ridiculous comment.
ben is an idiot!!! i loved the movie too but ben’s comment borders on retarded. i’m glad the movie did well but that box office record will be broken by potc: awe & even perhaps by hpootp.