spider-man 3 shattered previous box office records this past weekend. the film officially kicked off the summer movie season and took in an estimated $148 million dollars domestically. worldwide, the film took in an estimated $227 million in 105 foreign countries (beating out previous record-holder star wars: episode 3). i would also like to take credit for $22 dollars worth of those sales. yes, i saw it twice. i'm a sucker.so congrats spidey cast, way to whore yourselves out. all of those promotional appearances (i.e. spider-man week in nyc, appearances on talk shows, the museum of natural history, and world wide premieres) paid off! although you're still shy of that alleged $300 million that went into making and marketing the film. but something tells me they'll make that money in no time.
in honor of spider-man 3's number one spot at the box office, here's some movie trivia for you:
- the release date for the film was set before spider-man 2 was even released.
- spider-man 3 combines all three raimi brothers. sam raimi as the director, ivan raimi as one of the writers and ted raimi as an actor in the role of hoffman.
- while being in the venom costume, topher grace didn't drink any water during his breaks.
- partial scenes, where spider-man is hanging from the back of an armored car, where filmed in downtown cleveland ohio, due to expensive shooting prices in new york city.
- the over 600 latex "web" balloons in the celebration scene had to be hand-painted with a sharpie marker.
oh, and here are the rest of the top movies this weekend:
1) spider-man 3= $148 million
2) disturbia- $5.72 million
3) fracture- $3.5 million
4) the invisible- $3.12 million
5) next- $2.77 million
(via imdb)
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