Spider-Man does $114,000,000.00, is that awesome or what?
I'm so happy for Spider-Man, Marvel, Sam Raimi,and the cast. The job they did was superb and their hard work and Raimi's attention to detail is seen in the movie. Their hard work has paid off with an amazing film, one of my favorite of all time! As far as Star Wars, like was mentioned before, I don't think it cant top the opening weekend mark Spider-Man has set because I've read on box office sites that the audience for Spider-Man was split 50-50 between males and females, as well as over and under 25. Star Wars probably won't be able to generate these numbers because of these statistics. Spider-Man should stay #1 for a long time!
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Here are some figures on what other big name movies done on opening weekend. Harry Potter did $90.3 over its opening weekend, so as you can see Spider Man trashed the record. And Harry Potter trashed the $72 million record set in 1997 by the Lost World.
Star Wars Episode 1 opened with a $64.8 million weekend (which puts it at number 7 on the all-time list for best opening weekends), however, the movie came out on a Wednesday, which meant, it had 2 days for people to see it before the counter for opening weekend started. Even if you added in the grosses from its Wed opening to the first Sunday night, it would have about $105 over its first 5 day span. Spider-Man still beat that record in only 3 days.
So its safe to say that the appeal for Spider Man was alot higher than for Phantom Menace. As to whether more people will want to see Attack of the Clones remains to be seen. HOWEVER, Fox has already announced that Episode 2 will only debut in 3300 screens, which means it will be at 300 less theaters, and about 1,000 less screens than Spider-Man did, so with that in mind, I can almost guarantee you that the Attack of the Clones will come no where close to the opening weekend of Spider-Man.
In my opinion, the record set by Spider-Man will not be beat by any movie coming out this year.
