{"id":37438,"date":"2012-07-09T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=37438"},"modified":"2017-09-25T10:15:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T17:15:39","slug":"boxoffice-jul-9-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/boxoffice-jul-9-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Box Office: ‘Amazing’ Success"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every other site that reports weekend box office numbers is selling the opening of ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ short. Most of today’s box office headlines read something like, “Spider-Man Reboot Opens Very Well, But Not as Strongly as Predecessors.”<\/em> No duh. I don’t think anyone expected this reboot of a ten-year-old trilogy to make as much as the Raimi flicks. Despite being a reboot with new faces, a new story and new tone, ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ has done amazingly well over the last six days.
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If you’re going to compare ‘The Amazing Spider-Man<\/strong>‘ to anything, compare it to other franchise reboots. Over the last six days, ‘Spider-Man’ has brought in $140 million. That’s $75 million from weekdays Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and $65 million from Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Box Office Mojo<\/em> compares<\/a> ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ to ‘Batman Begins<\/a>‘ and ‘X-Men: First Class<\/a>‘. Neither of those movies’ six-day totals came anywhere close to the $140 million that ‘Spider-Man’ just made. ‘Batman Begins’ brought in $79.5 million in its first six days, while ‘First Class’ brought in $69.9 million. Both of those films were very successful, so imagine where ‘Spider-Man’ will land. The only downside is that Spidey has only another 12 days before ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ swoops in and steals its thunder.<\/p>\n

Seth MacFarlane’s ‘Ted<\/strong>‘ also performed well in its second weekend, winning the #2 spot and dropping only 40% in attendance with $32.5 million. In its third weekend, Pixar’s ‘Brave<\/strong>‘ also fared well, sliding into third place with $20.1 million, which brings it to a collective $174.5 million domestic total. Box Office Mojo<\/em> points out that even if ‘Brave’ loses its steam when ‘Ice Age 4’ opens this coming weekend, it’s still on track to cross the $200 million milestone.<\/p>\n

The two big surprises this weekend are the flip-flop openings of Oliver Stone’s ‘Savages<\/strong>‘ and the 3D concert documentary ‘Katy Perry: Part of Me<\/strong>‘. Thursday opener ‘Part of Me’ was predicted to have a $13.5 million, fourth-place weekend; however, it only pulled in $7.1 million, enough to land its debut in the #8 spot. Its predicted four-day total is now off by $9 million. The bright side for Paramount is that ‘Part of Me’ was made on a small $12 million budget that shouldn’t be hard to recoup when all is said and done.<\/p>\n

‘Savages’ was expected to open outside the Top 5 with $11.1 million, but actually finished in the fourth-place slot where ‘Part of Me’ was expected. Its $16.1 million marks the third-highest opening for an Oliver Stone movie behind the $19 million debut for ‘Wall Street 2<\/a>‘ and the $18.7 million for ‘World Trade Center<\/a>‘.<\/p>\n

Rounding out the Top 5 was last week’s #2 title, ‘Magic Mike<\/strong>‘. Even with its 60% decline, Steven Soderbergh’s male stripper drama managed to earn $15.6 million. Its 10-day total is now at $72.7 million.<\/p>\n

As of now, there are no weekend estimates listed for the the Duplass brothers’ independent opener ‘The Do-Deca-Pentathlon<\/strong>‘. We’ll have to wait until the actuals are announced this afternoon to see how it performed.<\/p>\n

Top 10:<\/h5>\n

1. ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ (Sony) – $65,000,000<\/p>\n

2. ‘Ted’ (Universal) – $32,593,000<\/p>\n

3. ‘Brave’ (Buena Vista) – $20,162,000<\/p>\n

4. ‘Savages’ (Universal) – $16,162,000<\/p>\n

5. ‘Magic Mike’ (Warner Bros.) – $15,610,000<\/p>\n

6. ‘Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection’ (Lionsgate) – $10,200,000<\/p>\n

7. ‘Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted’ (Paramount\/DreamWorks) – $7,700,000<\/p>\n

8. ‘Katy Perry: Part of Me’ (Paramount) – $7,150,000<\/p>\n

9. ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ (Focus) – $4,642,000<\/p>\n

10. ‘To Rome With Love’ (Sony Pictures Classics) – $3,502,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every other site that reports weekend box office numbers is selling the opening of ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ short. Most of today’s box office headlines read something like, “Spider-Man Reboot Opens Very Well, But Not as Strongly as Predecessors.” No duh. I don’t think anyone expected this reboot of a ten-year-old trilogy to make as much…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":37440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,743],"tags":[178,2647,5355,5062,5332,566,4828],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37438"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38026,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37438\/revisions\/38026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}