Spidey Knocks Out Harry Potter at Box Office

RasputinAXP writes "According to this Yahoo article, Spider-Man picked up an Amazing $114 million dollars at the box office, squishing Harry Potter's $90.3 million like a bug. More coverage is available at Box Office Prophets' new Weekend Wrapup, including analysis."

Not surprising....

[Anonymous Coward]

You hype a movie like this enough and you're bound to make astonishing results, money-wise. Most people that went and saw the movie weren't even interested in it as Spider-man fans, they mainly went because their friends declared it was "ohhh sooo coool!".

I'm sure no one saw these figures coming from a mile away...

Re:Excellent

[skeller]

Negative. Evil Dead is a trilogy. It's fine that way. Leave it. Bruce Campbell has said often that he wouldn't care to do another one

Uh... really? The fact is, there was always an Evil Dead 4 planned, especially considering the original ending (where Ash wakes up in post-apocalyptic England). Furthermore, according to Bruce Campbell's official site [bruce-campbell.com]:

"Let me be clear, however, on one point: I'd be happy to do it - so would Sam, but let's not beat that dead horse any more until it becomes a reality...IF it ever does."

So, both Raimi and Campbell would like to do one, and I know I'd love to see one. And, given the series' tendency to "alter" endings, I think we could get the ED4 Raimi had planned. It would rock.

Re:Where's the Jon Katz review?

[baywulf]

Interestingly enough, one of the early Spider-Man trailers online had some bank robbers escaping on a helicopter only to be strung up on a web between the World Trade Center towers by Spider-Man. After the 9/11 incident, they quickly pulled that one and replaced with other one.

Re:This number is meaningless

[mooneyd]

Here you go [boxofficemojo.com]

1 Gone With the Wind: $1,146,081,811

2 Star Wars: $1,025,027,477

3 The Sound of Music: $850,020,681

4 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: $823,800,033

5 The Ten Commandments: $760,123,752

6 Jaws: $743,173,676

7 Titanic: $725,045,021

Re:Do they ever adjust for inflation?

[xcomputer_man]

They did think of that, there is a page on the site that contains an inflation-adjusted list of All Time Domestic grosses. Not surprisingly, Gone With The Wind tops the list with $1.1 billion dollars, followed closely by the 1977 release of Star Wars.

The full list is here [boxofficemojo.com].

Very, very interesting site.

Re:Excellent? Is $ the way to keep score?

[Cow4263]

As for opening days, first weeks, overalls, etc. it would really be interesting to see how this stacks up against opening of Gone With the Wind, ET or Return of the Jedi with dollars adjusted for inflation. What you never hear is an estimate of how many bodies they got into theater seats, also, track it next weekend, as the word-of-mouth gets around and we see whether it has lasting power.

All-Time Box Offices[Adjusted for Inflation] [boxofficemojo.com] (Gone With the Wind is #1, Titanic is *only* #7)

Some other lists [boxofficemojo.com] (@ boxofficemojo.com [boxofficemojo.com])