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05-05-2002, 09:27 PM
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"Spider-Man" Spins Record $114 Million
Sun May 5, 2:58 PM ET
By Bridget Byrne
Spider-Man netted a truly "Marvel"lous $114 million gross.
This estimated haul for Sony's adaptation of the Marvel comic book fantasy far exceeded even the most generous industry expectations and broke numerous records.
The PG-13 rated movie, the first big release of the summer blockbuster season, starring Tobey Maguire as the nerd turned arachnid swinger, broke the all-time opening weekend record, easily surpassing the $90.2 million pulled in last November by the kiddie wizard saga Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
Friday's intake of $39.3 million and Saturday's even bigger $43.7 million are now the top two single day grosses ever. The three day total earned by the favorably reviewed movie, which also stars Kirsten Dunst, James Franco and Willem Dafoe and numerous CGI effects, meant it ran over all obstacles to become the fastest ever flick to surpass $100 million, beating both the Potter tale and Star Wars: Episode I- The Phantom Menace which needed five to reach that mark.
Opening in 3,615 sites Spider-Man wrapped up 74.4 percent of the $153.281 million taken in this weekend by the top 12 movies. Audiences of both sexes, young and old, were glued -- filling seats to rack up a $31,535 per screen average, considerably more than the $24,590 per screen earned by the Potter movie when it debuted at 3,672 sites.
Overall because of Spider-Man the top 12 movies' combined gross was 111.9 percent higher than last weekend, and 53.6 percent better than this time last year when The Mummy Returns opened with what seems like now a mere $68.1 million.
Inevitably that Mummy off-shoot, the bugged out fantasy adventure The Scorpion King, which had been number one for two weeks, felt the pinch. Down to second place, losing 47 percent of its previous weekend's audience, it earned just $9.6 million.
Two other movies braved opening, despite knowledge of the giant web thrown across the country.
Deuces Wild, starring an odd cross section of Hollywood's young crowd as a bunch of aspiring gangsters in '50s Brooklyn, didn't have the grease. In 1,480 theaters the R rated United Artists release only earned $1,824 per screen for a seventh place $2.7 million.
Hollywood Ending, Woody Allen's latest comedy, was only in tenth place but the PG-13 Dreamworks release did better per screen. At 765 sites Allen's grumpy old grouse about the art and business of filmmaking, also starring Téa Leoni , Treat Williams and Mark Rydell, averaged $2,876 to gross $2.2 million.
Final figures will be released Monday. Meantime the estimates tallied by Exhibitor Relations Inc. read this way:
1.Spider-Man, $114 million
2.The Scorpion King, $9.6 million
3.Changing Lanes, $5.6 million
4.Murder by Numbers, $3.7 million
5.The Rookie, $3.3 million
6.Life, or Something Like It, $3.2 million
7.Deuces Wild, $2.7 million
8.Ice Age, $2.5 million
9.Jason X, $2.4 million
10.Hollywood Ending, $2.2 million
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"Spider-Man" Spins Record $114 Million
Sun May 5, 2:58 PM ET
By Bridget Byrne
Spider-Man netted a truly "Marvel"lous $114 million gross.
This estimated haul for Sony's adaptation of the Marvel comic book fantasy far exceeded even the most generous industry expectations and broke numerous records.
The PG-13 rated movie, the first big release of the summer blockbuster season, starring Tobey Maguire as the nerd turned arachnid swinger, broke the all-time opening weekend record, easily surpassing the $90.2 million pulled in last November by the kiddie wizard saga Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
Friday's intake of $39.3 million and Saturday's even bigger $43.7 million are now the top two single day grosses ever. The three day total earned by the favorably reviewed movie, which also stars Kirsten Dunst, James Franco and Willem Dafoe and numerous CGI effects, meant it ran over all obstacles to become the fastest ever flick to surpass $100 million, beating both the Potter tale and Star Wars: Episode I- The Phantom Menace which needed five to reach that mark.
Opening in 3,615 sites Spider-Man wrapped up 74.4 percent of the $153.281 million taken in this weekend by the top 12 movies. Audiences of both sexes, young and old, were glued -- filling seats to rack up a $31,535 per screen average, considerably more than the $24,590 per screen earned by the Potter movie when it debuted at 3,672 sites.
Overall because of Spider-Man the top 12 movies' combined gross was 111.9 percent higher than last weekend, and 53.6 percent better than this time last year when The Mummy Returns opened with what seems like now a mere $68.1 million.
Inevitably that Mummy off-shoot, the bugged out fantasy adventure The Scorpion King, which had been number one for two weeks, felt the pinch. Down to second place, losing 47 percent of its previous weekend's audience, it earned just $9.6 million.
Two other movies braved opening, despite knowledge of the giant web thrown across the country.
Deuces Wild, starring an odd cross section of Hollywood's young crowd as a bunch of aspiring gangsters in '50s Brooklyn, didn't have the grease. In 1,480 theaters the R rated United Artists release only earned $1,824 per screen for a seventh place $2.7 million.
Hollywood Ending, Woody Allen's latest comedy, was only in tenth place but the PG-13 Dreamworks release did better per screen. At 765 sites Allen's grumpy old grouse about the art and business of filmmaking, also starring Téa Leoni , Treat Williams and Mark Rydell, averaged $2,876 to gross $2.2 million.
Final figures will be released Monday. Meantime the estimates tallied by Exhibitor Relations Inc. read this way:
1.Spider-Man, $114 million
2.The Scorpion King, $9.6 million
3.Changing Lanes, $5.6 million
4.Murder by Numbers, $3.7 million
5.The Rookie, $3.3 million
6.Life, or Something Like It, $3.2 million
7.Deuces Wild, $2.7 million
8.Ice Age, $2.5 million
9.Jason X, $2.4 million
10.Hollywood Ending, $2.2 million
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