As we suspected yesterday, Sony is reporting that Spider-Man 3 took in $59 million in its opening day alone. This breaks the record for the biggest opening day of all time. Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest previously held the record with $55.8 million.
Spider-Man 3 is also on track to overtake Dead Man’s biggest opening weekend of all time record of $135.6 million. The third Spidey film will now end the weekend somewhere in the ballbark of $138 to $145 million, which is just enough to beat the record.
Spider-Man 2 made $40 million on it’s opening day, and the original Spider-Man took in $43.6 million. We will have more accurate estimates on Sunday.
May 6th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Wow, Boxofficemojo.com has the opening weekend gross (estimated) at $148 million dollars. Double, no, triple wow. Looks like everyone and their mother (ok, not my mother) went to see SM3 this weekend. I’m really curious, though, how it’ll do during the week and over next weekend with no major competition (Shrek 3 opens up the following weekend).