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Posted by Darryl Spicer (Member # 711) on 05-04-2002, 01:46 PM:
Spider-Man grossed a whopping $41.4 million on Friday, according to estimates. That's by far the biggest day ever in Hollywood history, shattering Harry Potter's $32.3 million opening day record and Potter's $33.5 million single day record. Spidey is now on course to top Potter's $90.3 million to have the biggest opening weekend ever, likely becoming the first movie to top $100 million in a single weekend.
Stay tuned for more updates...
Spidey's daily, weekend, international box office stats and more are being tracked at: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/marvel/spiderman.htm
Posted by Paul G. Thompson (Member # 655) on 05-05-2002, 12:29 AM:
I think this movie will fly. The kids like it. 
Posted by Adam Fraser (Member # 1074) on 05-05-2002, 12:35 AM:
I agree with Paul, have only heard good comments from people who are exiting the auditorium.------------------
Adam Fraser
www.pinestheatre.com
Posted by Adam Wilbert (Member # 1184) on 05-05-2002, 12:42 AM:
Agree - I'm looking forward to the sequil already. The one without the green goblin.
Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 05-05-2002, 01:20 AM:
I just wanted to make it three Adams in a row. We have been particularly busy, with many shows (of five Spidey auditoriums) selling out.
Posted by Sean McKinnon (Member # 612) on 05-05-2002, 02:38 AM:
We recieved 5 prints of spiderman and have been running 3 of them interlocked for every show since friday night. thats 8 Screens!!! I wonder how "that space movie" id going to do compared to this. Gentlemen I believe that Cinema may be back!!!
Posted by John Scott (Member # 520) on 05-05-2002, 10:51 AM:
Saturday's Box office numbers for Spider-Man:$46.512M
2 Day total: $87.91M
Posted by Greg Mueller (Member # 17) on 05-05-2002, 11:01 AM:
Yay Spidey------------------
Greg Mueller
Amateur Astronomer, Machinist, Filmnut
http://www.muellersatomics.com/
Posted by Rick Long (Member # 213) on 05-05-2002, 12:49 PM:
Wondering how many tons of popcorn and litres of Coke that adds up to.This is a great chance to show people who have not been to a movie in awhile that Film Done Right really is your best entertainment value.
Posted by Jason Black (Member # 684) on 05-05-2002, 04:51 PM:
3 prints, none interlocked.
15 shows a day, 13 sold out Sat.
Yeah, Spiderman caught MANY, MANY people in his web this wknd.
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The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese!
Posted by Charles Everett (Member # 889) on 05-05-2002, 05:32 PM:
Weekend estimate per Box Office Mojo: $114 million."It's a newwwwwww worlllllld recorrrrrrd!"
Ironically, the AMC Hamilton in New Jersey had trouble selling out Spiderman yesterday even though the shows were packed. (4 giant-size auditoriums plus 1 large auditorium).
I don't see Star Wars Episode 2 breaking this record. Lucasfilm wants too much from theaters -- and Loews won't run Episode 2 in Manhattan.
Posted by David Stambaugh (Member # 1102) on 05-05-2002, 06:32 PM:
So I suppose that even if the boffo box-office holds up for the next 2 weeks, that space movie will still knock Spidey off the best screens when it opens. Bah.
Posted by Jacob Huber (Member # 1138) on 05-06-2002, 03:09 AM:
I don't see Ep II doing close to this much damage because of the booking terms. All 3 of our Spideys are in our largest auditoriums (all 3 of which hold 260+), and will stay there for probably a month. Ep II, however, is going in to our lesser theatres (2 of which hold 120 each, the other 2 hold 220 each). This, of course, is due to the 3 month hold agreement, where we can't move a print to any other theatre for said 3 months. Lucas is just kicking himself in the ass with these stupid terms, and hopefully he will learn in time for Ep III, but we all know he won't.
Posted by Ron Lacheur (Member # 1126) on 05-06-2002, 04:15 AM:
Lucas won't drop the stupid exhibitation agreements. I heard ( on this site I believe ) that no one will be able to run Episode III unless they had DLP. Is it true that he's not letting anyone run Episode II interlocked?
The problem is the Star Wars series' makes a boatload of cash for everybody involved so they have to abide by his shitty rules.
Money Talks.
Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 05-06-2002, 04:21 AM:
The difference here is that Spiderman needed the big first-weekend gross in order to ensure its long-term success. If the film had sucked (which presumably it doesn't), people would have completely forgotten about it by May 16. Star Wars doesn't have this problem and a very large set of people will see it regardless of its quality (with repeat business being the only issue).
Posted by Aaron Sisemore (Member # 145) on 05-06-2002, 12:08 PM:
>>Lucas won't drop the stupid exhibitation agreements. I heard ( on this site I believe ) that no one will be able to run Episode III unless they had DLP.<<He said the exact same thing during Episode I's run about Episode II. Riiight.
>>Is it true that he's not letting anyone run Episode II interlocked?<<
He 'didn't allow' Episode I to be interlocked, but ppl did it anyway.
-Aaron
Posted by Mitchell Cope (Member # 32) on 05-06-2002, 12:15 PM:
quote:
Ironically, the AMC Hamilton in New Jersey had trouble selling out Spiderman yesterday even though the shows were packed. (4 giant-size auditoriums plus 1 large auditorium).
At the AMC is Olathe, Kansas Friday night, I didn't see the sell-out crowds you would expect for a record-setting movie. No prominent waiting lines in the lobby, etc. I would hate to cast disparaging remarks on this remarkable effort (i.e., $114M), but does everyone think these numbers are real? Could Sony be pulling a fast-one or are these numbers verifiable?
Posted by Aldo Baez (Member # 790) on 05-06-2002, 12:20 PM:
I definately believe it, we only had 8 shows per day and we sold out every single one. And the phone was ringing off the hook asking if we were sold out because it was sold out everywhere else. The local Long Beach edwards had *28* showtimes and someone told me by two they were sold out until the midnight showings.
Posted by Dave Williams (Member # 299) on 05-06-2002, 01:39 PM:
The numbers are real and verifiable. The reason you are not seeing sellouts is because SONY did not put a cap on the number of prints they would make. If you wanted one, or ten, you could have em. They wanted to make sure that they took in as much money as possible in thier thirteen days of fame. So by not limiting the number of prints and not raping theaters on the terms, there was little possibility of sellouts.Here in salt lake utah, a town of 800,000, it was playing on more than thirty screens, with an average auditorium of about 250. I imagine that is the way it is all over the place.
Question is, how many screens did it open on? I heard is was more than 8,000. Anyone have any idea?
Dave
Posted by Barry Floyd (Member # 385) on 05-06-2002, 01:57 PM:
Every local Drive-In within a 75 mile radius of Nashville had it playing this weekend. Me and my family drove up to Franklin, Kentucky to catch it at the drive-in there only to see the gates locked and a HUGE sign that read "SOLD OUT"!! They had people parked in places I didn't even know were actual parking spots. There had to be 500-600 cars on the lot.We left there and drove to Lafayette, TN (pronounced "LUH- FAY - YET" in Tennessee) to the Macon County drive-in. We got there 20 minutes after the movie had started and got the last open parking space next to the dumpster. We were the last folks let in, as everyone who tried to enter after us was turned away.
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Barry Floyd
Floyd Entertainment Group
Nashville, Tennessee
(Drive-In Theatre - Start-Up)
Posted by David Stambaugh (Member # 1102) on 05-06-2002, 03:33 PM:
Yahoo news says about the Spiderman screen count:"It grossed $31,535 per theater, a record for a film released in more than 3,000 outlets (3,615 in this case)"
Posted by Charles Everett (Member # 889) on 05-06-2002, 06:17 PM:
First weekend gross, certified and official: $114,844,116.First weekend per-theater average: $31,769.
"It's a newwwww worrrrrld recorrrrrd!"
Try and top THAT, Lucasfilm!
There's plenty of Spider-Man stuff on Box Office Mojo.
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 05-06-2002, 07:27 PM:
Charles, you didn't calculate down to the exact cent!
Posted by Mark Lensenmayer (Member # 134) on 05-07-2002, 02:34 PM:
Individual theatre grosses are the highest I've ever seen. The E-Walk in NYC had a $314,534 gross, according to Box Office News. Can't tell if they are running 4 or 5 prints.
Posted by Paul Linfesty (Member # 214) on 05-07-2002, 03:00 PM:
just to put things in perpesctive. The opening week's gross for the 1953 movie THE ROBE was somewhere around $350,000 at just ONE theatre in NYC, The Roxy, at 1953 prices.
Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 05-08-2002, 10:38 AM:
Yeah! AND that was in scope at least! 
Sam Raimi...make the next two in scope, OK?
Please...?
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"It's not the years honey, it's the mileage". - Indiana Jones.
Posted by Jacob Huber (Member # 1138) on 05-08-2002, 03:17 PM:
Even though this was an action-type movie, I somewhat enjoyed the fact that it was in flat. It gave it a comic booky feel.
Posted by David Stambaugh (Member # 1102) on 05-08-2002, 03:32 PM:
I'm usually a scope-booster, but I thought Spiderman looked "right" in flat.
Posted by Charles Everett (Member # 889) on 05-08-2002, 07:39 PM:
More amazing stories . . . Spider-Man took in $11 million on Monday. Yes, $11 million! Must be among the all-time leaders for a non-summer or non-holiday Monday.Mark L: Last weekend the Loews E-Walk took in $314,534 from 5 prints while the UA Union Square took in $233,208 from 6 prints.
Posted by Charles Everett (Member # 889) on 05-12-2002, 01:28 PM:
2nd weekend estimate per Box Office Mojo: $72 million. If it holds up in the actual count it'll be the highest-grossing 2nd weekend ever.Spider-Man is now the fastest ever to $200 million -- beating out Star Wars: Episode 1. 
With these kinds of numbers and all the bad vibes on Episode 2 I don't see many people buying advance tickets for Episode 2.
Posted by Adam Fraser (Member # 1074) on 05-12-2002, 02:19 PM:
I heard from talking to a employee at a local theatre about an hour away from us that EP2 advanced tickets aren't really selling well. But that could just be in their market. Hope Spiderman keeps it up though.------------------
Adam Fraser
www.pinestheatre.com
Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 05-12-2002, 03:43 PM:
$72 million for the second weekend. That's pretty good numbers. However, ticket price inflation really has to be factored in with these new releases. Claims like "fastest to reach $200 million" and "$100 million on opening weekend" don't really mean a whole lot.The movie industry should do what the music industry does. Count individual unit sales and publicize that. A $100 million dollar gross means nothing for a movie anymore. There are films that literally flop financially and gross over $100 million. For many major film releases, a distributor may spend between $30 million and $70 million just marketing the thing.
How many tickets did "Star Wars" sell in 1977? Jaws? The Sound of Music? Gone With the Wind? Ticket price inflation has really made it impossible to say definitively which films are truly top box office champions.
I would imagine "Titanic" and its $600 million gross in the U.S. would factor it in well with some all time lists. But how many tickets does that gross actually equal with an older hit like "Gone With the Wind"?
Posted by Jacob Huber (Member # 1138) on 05-12-2002, 09:32 PM:
I remember reading a top 10 list of all time highest grossing movies adjusted for inflation. Gone with the Wind is at number 1. ET is number 4 on the adjusted and non adjusted lists.
Posted by Jacob Huber (Member # 1138) on 05-12-2002, 09:51 PM:
Here's the list.
Non Adjusted / Adjusted
1. Titanic $601M / Gone With the Wind $885M
2. Star Wars Ep. IV $461M / Star Wars Ep. IV $798M
3. ET $435M / ET $644M
4. Star Wars Ep. I $431M / The Sound of Music $638M
5. Jurrasic Park $357M / Titanic $601M
6. Forrest Gump $330M / The Ten Commandments $587M
7. Harry Potter $317M / Jaws $574M
8. The Lion King $313M / Dr. Zhivago $542M
9. Star Wars Ep. VI $309M / The Jungle Book $485M
10. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings $309 / Snow White and the 7 Dwarves $471M*All dollar amounts in U.S. Dollars for U.S. box office only and rounded to the nearest $1M
Posted by Paul Linfesty (Member # 214) on 05-12-2002, 10:22 PM:
Ive always been a little dubious of these films adjusted for inflation. Take Gone With the Wind, for example. I've seen many times on these lists that they based it on what average ticket sales were in 1939 and compared them to today's prices. Problem is, GWTW was not shown at average ticket prices but at GREATLY inflated ones. And half of the rentals of the film occured starting with the 1967 re-release which ALSO started life as a (70mm) Roadshow. Average ticket prices were also a lot lower due to a much greater range of types of theatres (first, second, third runs than there are today.
Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 05-13-2002, 12:13 AM:
I just got back from a road trip around Lake Michigan and I have to say that Spider-Man must be playing in 85% of the small-town cinemas in North America. I mean this thing is everywhere. No wonder the numbers are so huge.
Posted by Charles Everett (Member # 889) on 05-13-2002, 04:17 PM:
Indeed it is, Adam!2nd weekend total, certified and official: $71,417,527 -- only a 38 percent drop from 1st weekend.
2nd weekend per-theater average: $19,756.
The press is pouring on the Star Wars hype because they are shocked by Spider-Man's huge numbers.