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Stern Pinball
Press Release
SPIDER-MAN
3 BREAKS MOVIE RECORD
May 7, 2007 - SPIDER-MAN caught just about
everyone in his web. The superhero's latest adventure, "SPIDER-MAN 3,"
smashed box-office records with $148 million in its first three days,
according to studio estimates Sunday. That put it ahead of the previous
record debut of $135.6 million set last summer by "Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man's Chest."
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With $59.3 million on opening day Friday, Sony's "SPIDER-MAN 3" broke
the single-day box-office record, also held by "Dead Man's Chest" with
$55.8 million in its first day.
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 grossed $117 million more
than its whopping $258 million production budget.
In just two days, it also nearly matched the $114.8 million opening weekend
of 2002's "SPIDER-MAN," which had held the debut record until "Dead Man's
Chest" opened.
"SPIDER-MAN 3" reunites director Sam Raimi, who also made the previous
two installments, and stars Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst.
"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 $47.7 million.
"SPIDER-MAN 3" outdid that movie by $100 million and grossed more in each
of its first two days than "Mission: Impossible III" did over the full
weekend.
Also among the records smashed by "SPIDER-MAN 3" was a $4.8 million domestic
gross at huge-screen IMAX theaters, topping the previous best of $3.6
million set by "300" in March.
Playing in a record 4,252 locations domestically, "SPIDER-MAN 3" averaged
a whopping $34,807 a theater.
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 major competition arriving until
DreamWorks Animation's "Shrek the Third" arrives May 18.
With "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" and an onslaught of other
potential blockbusters following, studio executives predict this could
be a record summer for modern Hollywood.
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2007. Click
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nearest Stern Distributor. You can also contact Jolly Backer
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