Even when he takes a huge fall, Spider-Man comes out on top.
Sony's "Spider-Man 3" took in $60 million in its second weekend, a hefty 60 percent drop from its record debut a week earlier but good enough to easily outdistance the competition and remain the No. 1 movie, according to studio estimates Sunday.
"After a record-breaking opening weekend, to me this is an appropriate second-weekend drop," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Media By Numbers. "Any studio would be happy to have a movie opening with $60 million, let alone a second weekend with $60 million."
With $242.
1 million domestically in just 10 days, "Spider-Man 3" continued to beat the box-office pace of its predecessors. After 10 days, 2002's "Spider-Man" had grossed $223 million, while 2004's "Spider-Man 2" had taken in $225 million.
"Spider-Man 3" quickly became the year's top-grossing film, hurtling past "300," the Warner Bros.
battle epic that has taken in $208 million.
Second-weekend drops for successful studio films typically are well below 50 percent. But "Spider-Man 3" shattered records with $151.
1 million in its first weekend, making a big decline virtually inevitable since so many people already had seen the film.
"When you're in that stratosphere, we had to assume we would be in the range of a 60 percent drop," said Rory Bruer, head of distribution for Sony.
The weekend's other new movies had fair to poor openings.
Debuting in second place with $10 million was Fox Atomic's horror sequel "28 Weeks Later," a follow up to "28 Days Later" that continues the story of a virus in Britain that turns people into raging, cannibalistic zombies.
Universal's "Georgia Rule," starring Lindsay Lohan, Jane Fonda and Felicity Huffman, opened at No. 3 with $5.
9 million. Lohan plays a rebellious teen who's put under the charge of her no-nonsense grandma (Fonda).
Overseas, "Spider-Man 3" pulled in an additional $85.
5 million for the weekend.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S.
and Canadian theaters, according to Media By Numbers LLC. Final figures will be released today.
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