The Amazing Spider-Man The Amazing Spider-Man: Box Office Thread - Part 1

[sephiroth61787]

Wow, lower opening weekend than Thor and Captain America.

Captain America and Thor opened on Fridays. Amazing Spider-man opened on a Monday. This is to be expected. I'm glad it made $137 million though. As long as we get a sequel.

 

[Superhero 101]

It should be at 200 million hopefully this weekend

 

[spider-neil]

Wow, lower opening weekend than Thor and Captain America.

Basically the general audience saw this movie as unnecessary and an easy miss. I suspect that now the origin is out of the way the numbers may be better for the sequel. Shouldn't forget that BB and SR both did 400m worldwide with rebooted franchises.

 

[TheVileOne]

Captain America and Thor opened on Fridays. Amazing Spider-man opened on a Monday. This is to be expected. I'm glad it made $137 million though. As long as we get a sequel.

Thor and Captain America aren't freaking Spider-Man.

Spider-Man 2 didn't open on a Friday either. Didn't have 3D. Didn't have 3D IMAX.

 

[AvengeME]

Numbers won't do better for a sequel if they are going with another Goblin story. Maybe this time the girl gets killed, but everything else will look the same from face value. Don't spoil the after credit scene for me or anything else because I haven't seen it. Just assuming Norman or Venom will be the villains.

Now if you go Norman/Doc Ock circa Joker/Two Face in a massive 2:30 hour epic, you could see that plus 300 million gross again. But it has to be a much different take. Don't know how they will radically change the presentation of the story. We aren't going Burton/Schumacher to Nolan here.

 

[Liam_H]

I dont get it!

It said yestarday that it had earned 140M and today it says 137!

Sony overestimated. And its not surprising to see why since that extra $2.5 million put them right at the $140 million mark for 6 days.

 

[TheVileOne]

Once - origin reboot was a huge mistake.

 

[spider-neil]

As long as it makes enough for a sequel, that's all I care about.
I think the movie will close at 700m WW. 190m should of what it made with SM3. Decent, considering this a reboot the GA mostly didn't want.

 

[hitmanyr2k]

Thor and Captain America aren't freaking Spider-Man.

Spider-Man 2 didn't open on a Friday either. Didn't have 3D. Didn't have 3D IMAX.

Spider-man 2 had one of the best villains of the franchise, an insane marketing campaign and a kickass trailer. And it helps that Spider-man was still fresh with movie-goers back in 2004. Common sense says a Spider-man film today isn't going to have the same impact or hype as the one from 8 years ago.

 

[TheVileOne]

hitmanyr2k, this movie had a bigger budget and a bigger marketing campaign than Spider-Man 2.

 

[SpaceWay2009]

So how well did TASM did in terms of opening week?

EDIT: Apparently, $65 million on opening day, and for the next six days: $160 million. And $341.2 million worldwide.

 

[Tony Stark]

I'm going to refrain from calling this a failure, but in the court of public opinion, reactions are pretty mixed on this one.

I think 250M is the cap for this movie. I'm not sure if this is disappointing, but it's close to being below expectation.

I think what's sad is there are parts of this movie that are very good, and I think Garfield is a great replacement for Maguire, but at his age, he'll only be able to make one or two more movies tops.

If it ends up that this movie does not get a sequel then Marvel needs to move quickly to get the rights back.

 

[JKKS085]

Bad news is that it now has very little chance (especially with that horrible sunday) to reach 200 millions by next sunday. I think it'll get 53/55 millions between monday and sunday.

 

[Tony Stark]

Numbers won't do better for a sequel if they are going with another Goblin story. Maybe this time the girl gets killed, but everything else will look the same from face value. Don't spoil the after credit scene for me or anything else because I haven't seen it. Just assuming Norman or Venom will be the villains.

Now if you go Norman/Doc Ock circa Joker/Two Face in a massive 2:30 hour epic, you could see that plus 300 million gross again. But it has to be a much different take. Don't know how they will radically change the presentation of the story. We aren't going Burton/Schumacher to Nolan here.

If they go ultimate GG route, TASM 2 will be a huge bomb.

 

[hitmanyr2k]

hitmanyr2k, this movie had a bigger budget and a bigger marketing campaign than Spider-Man 2.

But TASM didn't have a great cinematic villain in Ock, didn't have the novelty of SM2, and was coming off a trilogy that didn't end on the greatest terms. That stuff can matter more than budget.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I think it will pass 200 m by next monday, another week it gets 235, then 255, then 265, then another 2.5 weeks it will squeak past 275 m.

 

[TheVileOne]

The movie is hardly a failure but it is underperforming.

SpaceWay2009, the actual box office numbers were lower than what you posted. More like $62 million and $137 million for six days. Well beneath what the first Spider-man did in a similar timeframe TEN years ago without 3D and IMAX.

I think it will pass 200 m by next monday, another week it gets 235, then 255, then 265, then another 2.5 weeks it will squeak past 275 m.

The way the numbers are trending down, I don't think that will be the case.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

If they go ultimate GG route, TASM 2 will be a huge bomb.

That's a bit extreme.

TF2 and SM3 were pretty misguided and they didn't bomb. I'd say a serious take on Green Goblin filled with insanity and tragedy could do quite well.

Green Goblin is Spider-man's Joker.

 

[chaseter]

If they do Hulk Goblin...yeah I think ASM 2 will perform less than this movie.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

The movie is hardly a failure but it is underperforming.

SpaceWay2009, the actual box office numbers were lower than what you posted. More like $62 million and $137 million for six days. Well beneath what the first Spider-man did in a similar timeframe TEN years ago without 3D and IMAX.

Yeah Spider-man (2002) broke many record that year just like Batman (89) broke far more records than Batman Begins.

Reboots aren't an easy sell. Everyone understands that.

But it will be worth it when ASM2 reverses the steady Spider-man decline in the domestic market.

 

[TheVileOne]

But TASM didn't have a great cinematic villain in Ock, didn't have the novelty of SM2, and was coming off a trilogy that didn't end on the greatest terms. That stuff can matter more than budget.

Let me get down to the matter for you: Moviegoers didn't want to see a complete origin reboot so soon after the last movie.

 

[TheVileOne]

Batman Begins opened low but it held up much better in later weeks.

Also Amazing Spider-Man did lower than the reported BO estimates for the weekend. Begins did higher. So I'm not sure this is a Batman Begins type situation here.

I don't see how Green Goblin in the first movie lacked tragedy and insanity. All seemed to be there and audiences loved it.

 

[JKKS085]

Yeah Spider-man (2002) broke many record that year just like Batman (89) broke far more records than Batman Begins.

Reboots aren't an easy sell. Everyone understands that.

But it will be worth it when ASM2 reverses the steady Spider-man decline in the domestic market.

Batman Begins had the highest 6-day start in Batman franchise history (at that time of course TDK litteraly blew it). That actually makes a difference.

Considering ticket price inflation and 3D, TASM, should have been on 2002 Spider-Man's tracks (at least for the 6-days).

 

[chaseter]

This movie is not bombing, it's doing ok domestic and good overseas. It's only doing pathetic in relation to the previous movies....but anybody with one brain cell could see that the GA did not want a reboot origin movie.

 

[TheVileOne]

To ME, IMHO these aren't valid comparisons.

Spider-Man 3 still made over $900 million worldwide, the biggest worldwide gross for the franchise. This literally wasn't a matter of a Batman and Robin type bomb here. So we are talking about a multi-billion dollar franchise here. Spider-Man is still one of the most popular, recognized characters and pop culture icons in the world.

Comparable amount of money was spent on this movie to Spider-Man 3 possibly even more due to 3D conversion and 3D IMAX.