When the ticket stubs were counted in 107 markets, Spider-Man 3 made $382 million this past week. This covers the cost of production, variously estimated to be between $250 million and $350 million. Marketing costs have been estimated to be as much as another $150 million. SM3 set records as the biggest opening weekend in…
It’s even more ridiculous, folks. Nikki Finke updates the running tally with the global numbers: Spider-Man 3 has produced the biggest worldwide opening ever with $375 million, upsetting the previous record of $254 mil by Star Wars Episode 3. The overseas estimates from 107 countries total $225 mil; pic was the biggest film debut ever in…
Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood reports: “I’m told Spider-Man 3 beat Pirates Of The Caribbean 2 for the biggest U.S. opening day ever in film history. The threequel Friday shattered the $55.8 million mark set by P2 last year and took in $59 million. Based on the first day’s performance, the studio believes the film…
Variety reports today that Spider-Man 3 set opening day records in 10 of the 16 markets in which it opened yesterday. In Italy, for example, it earned $4 million, beating the previous record of $2.5 million, held by The DaVinci Code. Sony invested $3.3 million in marketing there. In France, SM3 earned $6.8 million, ahead…
Spider-Man 3 has already earned nearly $30,000,000 and it hasn’t even opened in the United States. The blockbuster-in-making has taken in a bundle in such places as France, Italy, South Korea and Hong Kong, according to the Associated Press. You may have heard it’s opening in the States on Friday. Then again, you may already…
Fandango, the phone and online advance movie ticket source, sent out a press release saying that as of 9 this morning, Pacific time, 94% of all weekly ticket sales online were for Spider-Man 3. Most of the Thursday midnight shows around the country have sold out, and lots of theaters added 3 AM shows. As…
Variety reports today that Spider-Man 3 set records in each of the eight Asian territories in which it debuted on Tuesday. In Japan, it earned ¥415 million ($3.47 million). In Korea, it took in 3.2 billion won ($3.44 million), and in Hong Kong the flick had the largest opening day ever, with $HK 7.5 million…
Grindhouse executive producer Harvey Weinstein has been on a spree explaining why the movie tanked last weekend. Without revealing the fact that the reviews and word-of-mouth generally noted people’s tastes running towards one of the two movies on the double bill and against the other – with little consensus on which is better – Weinstein…
For the second week in a row Will Ferrell is the top box-office draw as Blades of Glory remained the highest-grossing picture of the holiday weekend, according to the Associated Press. The film took in $23 million, followed by Disney’s animated Meet the Robinsons with $17 million. Ice Cube’s Are We Done Yet was third,…
Blades of Glory was the number one film for the April Fool’s weekend, with an estimated take of $33 million. Disney’s Meet The Robinsons came in second, with $25.1 million. 300 came in next, with $11.2 million, followed by TMNT with $9.2 million. If Hollywood realizes that both films owe their existance to Frank Miller…
Comic books continue to lead Hollywood box office business as TMNT, based upon the comics books of the same letters beat out 300 $25,400,000 to a mere $20,500,000 in estimated weekend North American box office receipts. It was the first weekend for the Turtles’ latest movie venture, and the third for the Frank Miller property….
Frank Miller’s 300 has turned into quite a little motion picture empire, grossing not only a portion of its audience but a whopping $152,000,000 worldwide in its first 10 days of release. Of course, by "worldwide" we mean that portion of the world that’s showing the movie thus far. Most of the planet has yet…
