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A Busy Friday for Spidey
May 6, 2007 @ 01:17 AM
- by Brian Cronin
- in General
- 7 Comments
Box Office Guru reported that Spider-Man 3 took in $59 million on its opening night (counting a sprinkling of Thursday sales, too). Don’t get me wrong, I understand that the whole blockbuster film culture is out of whack, where films basically HAVE to make a crapload of money their opening weekend or else they are considered “failures,” and that there is a heavy cultural push to be part of the “event” and see the film on its opening weekend, so a lot of these numbers are pretty silly, but still….$59 million in one day?
That’s a whole lot of moolah.
7 Comments
Rohan Williams
May 6, 2007 at 1:57 am
Well, it is an awesome movie. Seeing it for the 4th time tomorrow!
Sean Whitmore
May 6, 2007 at 3:31 am
Jeeeeee-sus.
If I was the head of Columbia, I would be following Sam Raimi around and cradling his nuts in a warm spoon.
Tom Fitzpatrick
May 6, 2007 at 4:49 am
Rohan:
The only problem with seeing a movie in the theatres for more than once, is that you won’t have any money in which to buy your comics.
But, go and enjoy.
Rohan Williams
May 6, 2007 at 6:52 am
Ha! That’s true, Tom, but the first and second screenings were free media screenings. And really, the highest praise you can give a movie you see twice for free is to pay to see it again.
Apodaca
May 6, 2007 at 7:01 pm
I saw it last night and enjoyed myself very much.
I was sad that there was no Lizard, though.
J To The AAP
May 7, 2007 at 3:58 am
Juggling three foes and still have a coherent story just wasn’t impressive enough?
J To The AAP
May 7, 2007 at 3:59 am
That was being said tongue-in-cheek, by the way.