box-office records with $148 million in its first three days, set last summer by "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest." With $59.3 million on opening day Friday, Sony's "Spider-Man 3" broke the single-day box-office record, also held by "Dead Since it began rolling out overseas on Tuesday, "Spider-Man 3" has taken in $227 million in foreign markets, bringing the film's worldwide total to $375 million.
In just days, the movie has In just two days, it also nearly matched the $114.8 million opening weekend of 2002's "Spider-Man," which had held the debut "Spider-Man 3" reunites director Sam Raimi, who also made the previous two installments, and stars Tobey Maguire and Kirsten "Sam Raimi is a genius," said Amy Pascal, Sony Pictures co-chairman. "I could have never envisioned this.
What I was hoping was we would just break the 'Spider-Man 1' record. This is beyond my wildest dream." The overall box office soared from "Spider-Man 3," with the top-12 movies taking in $176.
6 million, up 77 percent from the same weekend a year ago, when "Mission: Impossible III" opened with million domestic gross at huge-screen IMAX theaters, topping the Playing in a record 4,252 locations domestically, "Spider-Man Domestically, "Spider-Man 3" could enter its second weekend Friday with $200 million already in the bank. The film has the market largely to itself for the next week and a half, with no onslaught of other potential blockbusters following, studio biggest summer of all time, this is the scenario," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Media By Numbers. marketing for all the other summer films.
" The gap between "Spider-Man 3" and the No. 2 movie -- larger than any other movie's debut. "Disturbia," which had been No.
1 for three-straight weekends, raised its total to $59.9 The weekend's only other new wide release, the romantic drama "Lucky You" from Warner Bros., bombed with $2.
5 million to come in at No. 6. Directed by Curtis Hanson ("L.
A. Confidential"), "Lucky You" stars Drew Barrymore as a budding Las Vegas singer, Eric Bana as Fox Searchlight's "Waitress," starring Keri Russell as a knocks in her messy personal life, debuted with $91,470 in four theaters. "Waitress" was written and directed by co-star Adrienne Shelly, who was slain in her Manhattan apartment last fall.
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