Weekend Boxoffice Chart

[Evil Avatar]

Spider-Man caught just about everyone in his web. The superhero's latest adventure, Spider-Man 3, smashed box-office records with $148 million in its first three days.

Here is the Weekend Boxoffice Chart for the weekend of May 4th to May 6th.

Spider-Man 3 $148.0/$148.0
Disturbia $5.7/$59.8
Fracture $3.4/$26.4
The Invisible $3.1/$12.3
Next $2.7/$11.8
Lucky You $2.5/$2.5
Meet the Robinsons $2.4/$91.7
Blades of Glory $2.3/$111.6
Hot Fuzz $2.0/$16.1
Are We Done Yet? $1.7/$46.1
Vacancy $1.4/$16.4
The Condemned $1.0/$5.9
Apparently, "Does whatever a spider can." includes raking in big bundles of cash! The black suit for the win!

[bean19]

Go see Hot Fuzz instead. You'll be glad you did.

[TrackZero]

Hot Fuzz was fantastic. I recommend it to everyone.

[anakin876]

Woo hoo Hot Fuzz is still #9! Time to go see it again!

Also
Does anyone else find it hilarious that last week a movie was #1 with less than 15 million dollars, and this weekend A) Spiderman hits 148 mill B) number 2 had 5 million? If any of the studios were hoping their numbers would get dragged up by SPidey, it looks like they were sadly mistaken.

[Evil Avatar]

Does anyone else find it hilarious that last week a movie was #1 with less than 15 million dollars, and this weekend A) Spiderman hits 148 mill B) number 2 had 5 million? If any of the studios were hoping their numbers would get dragged up by SPidey, it looks like they were sadly mistaken.

And don't forget that Disney is going to relase Pirates 3 this summer - the blockbusters just keep on coming.

What is going to be really amusing is the total bomb that will drop after these blockbusters come out - if you thought box office numbers were low pre-summer, just wait until after everyone has seen all the big hits.

I can't imagine having a moving coming out in August or September.

[MSUStud911]

Everyone I've talked to about Spider-Man 3 was disappointed. No one said it was bad, but it didn't deliver in line with expectations, at least with the people I talked to. I think that apathetic response to the Spider-Man could translate into a lower box office total for the eventual Spider-Man 4.

[fable2323]

I hate to say it but Shrek 3 could run away with the largest box office total if it performs anything like the last two films. Pirates definately is gonna open big too.

[Jinaar]

Right now I feel like dirt for giving $12 to add to that $140mil for Spiderman 3. I should have went to see Hot Fuzz again. Me sad.

[Paranoia]

Having 2 villains (or 3 if you count Harry) was too much for the movie. Previous Spider-man movies had one villain. The 3rd did not had the luxury of fleshing out the charaters (Sandman, Venom, Gwen). Why do we even need to see Captain Stacy? Totally underused.

And its tiring to see Spider-man once again had to rescue Mary Jane.

[pheriannath]

I absolutely hated Spidey 3, or "Emo-Spider" as my friends and I now refer to it. There were plenty of great scenes, but they were buried in a mountain of filler (Sandman) and shit (Let's see Tobey strut around town some more! Brilliant!).

[bean19]

Everyone I've talked to about Spider-Man 3 was disappointed. No one said it was bad, but it didn't deliver in line with expectations, at least with the people I talked to. I think that apathetic response to the Spider-Man could translate into a lower box office total for the eventual Spider-Man 4.

Everyone I've talked to said it was bad. Spoiler: The biggest and most frequent critique I hear is that everyone fucking hated the focus on Mary Jane. Her relationship problems with Peter felt contrived to create dramatic tension in their relationship - but nobody cared. Oh, and EVERYONE though that Tobey McGuire's Venom/Peter was absolutely retarded. Forget the silly costuming - he really didn't have the motivation for him to act like an asshole and the symbiote always enhanced negative feelings in the comics. . . they didn't take over Peter's thinking completely. I'm annoyed that New Goblin died too. James Franco's performance was the only good one in the movie. . . well, all of the villains were pretty good actually but there were too damn many of them so nobody got much attention and their motivations were never made very clear. Comic fans understood their motivations, but I don't think that normal viewers will. Personally, I haven't read enough comics to know Sandman's story, so I had a lot of blanks on why he supposedly didn't do his crime and why he wanted to get money for his daughter (if that was his intent). This feels like a script that got mangled by amateurs (producers, actors, etc.)

[bean19]

Having 2 villains (or 3 if you count Harry) was too much for the movie. Previous Spider-man movies had one villain. The 3rd did not had the luxury of fleshing out the charaters (Sandman, Venom, Gwen). Why do we even need to see Captain Stacy? Totally underused.

And its tiring to see Spider-man once again had to rescue Mary Jane.

You know why? They wanted to sell more fucking action figures.

[joruussuun]

I thought Parker strutting around town was hilarious and I laughed out loud. The symbiote heightened everything like Dr. Connors said... including his "quirkiness".

I agree it had it's problems though. Paced all wrong and too many secondary plot threads brought down some of the major ones. Plus like some people mentioned in another thread, Venom CG was spotty, plus he didn't act like I imagine Venom would.

[divinechaos]

Spider Man 3 was fucking horrible. Everyone was such a little whiny bitch. I actually thought that the Sandman story was the only interesting happening but that ain't saying much. Can't believe I spent ten dollars on that shit.

[Zanch]

Spiderman 3 was the biggest pile of shit I've seen all year. Don't waste your time or money...unless you think an emo haircut and black eyeliner is a good representation of evil. It seriously makes X3 look like a freakin' cinematic masterpiece.

EDIT:
And who in their right mind thought it would be a good idea to do even ONE scene of Kirsten Dunst lip-syncing onstage? So why were there 2?? Who thought that people would give a shit about these scenes!?

[KingGorilla]

Go see Hot Fuzz instead. You'll be glad you did.
Precisely.

[EGO]

It's a "leave your brain at the door, popcorn cruncher", nothing more. It's a fun romp, but doesn't have the weight of the previous 2. Kinda feels like a long filler movie, like Pirates 2 or Matrix 2.

Yes, too many villains = mess. You would think people would get this by now. Word on the street is that Rami hates Venom and didn't want to put him in, but was forced, to by the studio. Maybe Venom should've been left out, so he could focus on Sandman?

Hobgoblin, Harry or "Goblin Jr." (hilarious) was EXCELLENT. I really didn't need/want to see him in this movie, because it was like; been there, done that, but his performance really was the bright spark in an otherwise "okay" movie.

[Atepsflame]

Saw Spidey 3 and Hot Fuzz back to back this weekend. Much prefered Hot Fuzz. Can't say enough good things about that movie.

[DaedalusFolly]

I never thought the first two movies were all that great in the first place. That being said, waiting for DVD on Spiderman 3... as in, I'll rent/borrow it.

[TheFlyingOrc]

And don't forget that Disney is going to relase Pirates 3 this summer - the blockbusters just keep on coming.

What is going to be really amusing is the total bomb that will drop after these blockbusters come out - if you thought box office numbers were low pre-summer, just wait until after everyone has seen all the big hits.

I can't imagine having a moving coming out in August or September.
3 of the biggest franchises of all time come out JUST IN May: Spiderman, Shrek, and Pirates. Transformers comes out in July. Harry Potter comes out in...June? Die Hard 4 comes out later. Transformers near the end of the summer. AND there's a Pixar movie coming out. Fantastic Four 2. Ocean's Thirteen. The Bourne Ultimatum. The Simpsons Movie.

That's Thirteen large releases for May-August. I don't like all of them, but that is just absolutely insane.

[Jonathan]

Hobgoblin, Harry or "Goblin Jr." (hilarious) was EXCELLENT. I really didn't need/want to see him in this movie, because it was like; been there, done that, but his performance really was the bright spark in an otherwise "okay" movie.

I agree, but I hated his bit of Deus Ex Machina at the end. SPOILER: If he was going to help out in the last fight, he should've been there for Mary Jane, not for Peter. After all that anger he's held onto, the butler stopping by and saying "your father died by his own hand" felt extremely contrived.

[dimsumx]

I've noticed from talking to friends after the movie that consitantly, guys will be disappointed with the movie, but the chicks will dig it. There's something wrong with that....

My thoughts on it (AND MASSIVE SPOILERS AHEAD, DON'T READ ON UNLESS YOU WANT TO KNOW): There was way too much going on, too many villans, and everything seemed rushed except for the entire Peter/MJ relationship, which was overdone and way too long. Everything seemed half-assed to me. The origin of the symbiote was way too convenient...of all the people it first comes along, it just happens to be Spiderman. Gimme a break, the guy already had a 1 in a billion chance of getting bitten by a radioactive spider and gaining superpowers, but a comet that lands right next to the same guy in the middle of nowhere? And Marko just happening to run into a highly dangerous scientific research (which only had a chained fence for security, I might add) at the exact moment they flipped the switch? Too convenient.

The way Venom/symbiote was handled, there could have been so much more..enough for an entire movie by itself. Gwen Stacey as well... could have been more there but not really anything of note. Instead, both of these seemed like it was just another prop to get some tension between Peter/MJ so that they can kiss and make up in the end.

Yeah. I'm a bit disappointed. But the girls I went with really loved it. It's a chick-flick in disguise.

[GrinR]

I loved Spider-Man 3. I went in expecting a less drama-driven Spidey movie and more action, action, ACTION! That's what I got and I'd like to say THANK YOU. I have never been that interested in the MJ plotline with the endless anime-eyes of "is you is or is you ain't" - save the drama fo yo mama and let's get the SMASH going please!!!

My one gripe (and it's not much of a spolier) is that for some reason in this movie Spidey doesn't have his spidey-sense. It's a weird oversight, considering how integral that power is to the superhero. I couldn't count how many times he got suprised or blindsided during a fight - and frankly, that's just bullshit.

[anakin876]

AND there's a Pixar movie coming out.

Pixar you say? what movie would this be? Are there trailers?

[Snipee]

Having 2 villains (or 3 if you count Harry) was too much for the movie. Previous Spider-man movies had one villain. The 3rd did not had the luxury of fleshing out the charaters (Sandman, Venom, Gwen). Why do we even need to see Captain Stacy? Totally underused.

And its tiring to see Spider-man once again had to rescue Mary Jane.

OMG Im so tired of this "Too many villans" bullcrap. The movie was well paced, it was really fun to watch. Plus they finished with a nice bang. Fantastic movie. Spiderman had to contend with the sinister six all the time. He fought multiple bad guys almost as often as he fought single villans. They wanted to implement that and it worked great.

[KarmaGhost]

Dancin' Emo Spidey FTW!

[GrinR]

Oh one other thing I thought while watching SM3... "why the FUCK am I seeing better superhero TEAMWORK in this one scene than I saw in ALL THREE x-men movies?!?!!?"

Actual TEAMWORK, not just fighting NEXT to each other!

[Loganrapp]

OMG Im so tired of this "Too many villans" bullcrap. The movie was well paced, it was really fun to watch. Plus they finished with a nice bang. Fantastic movie. Spiderman had to contend with the sinister six all the time. He fought multiple bad guys almost as often as he fought single villans. They wanted to implement that and it worked great.

Multiple bad guys in a comic != multiple bad guys in a film.

Even Star Trek, for all its complicated space opera politics, would pick one "villain" for its films.

People wonder why the newer Star Wars movies blew. For me, it was the fact that you never could quite figure out who the bad guy was. There was supposed to be one single threat, which is what all the press suggested, but until Anakin became Vader everything was muddled in trade federations and the Senate and other crappity crap.

When you're reading a comic, you're able to sit and process it. That's why multiple villains (and we're not counting your typical red-shirt enemies) work for that. In a film, it ain't so simple. It's got one installment to make its mark and that's it. Comics, just wait for next week/month/bi-week. If you don't get it then, you'll get it on the next one. Or the next. Or the next. That's the beauty of the medium - it's always evolving and you're able to fix what you broke almost immediately.

And I love the Spider-Man comics, but to suggest that because it works in the comic that it's a justification for a muddled and crowded film is... well, it's retarded.

[Roc Ingersol]

Spider-man wasn't 'too full' it was 'too small'. As in: the movie crammed everything into a too-small container: Venom's origin, Sandman's origin, Harry's reversal (gogo butler exposition!), Pete's descent, Gwen/MJ/Pete -- the whole thing was a clipshow from two, better, films.

They should've added thirty minutes, fleshed out Gwen/Venom/Eddie/Flint, and split the thing in two.

(as for Spidey-sense: IIRC, in the books, venom doesn't trigger it. and he seemed to be ahead of Sandman properly. There were just a couple of times that Harry blind-sided Pete that simply never should've happened.)

[GrinR]

Yeah, I excluded Venom. He gets hit with a spitball for crying out loud in the first scene.... don't we recall that happening in the first movie and he slow-mo dodges? It was just something that bugged me the whole time.

[Roc Ingersol]

Ah, the spitballs, yeah I forgot about those. I remember thinking that was pretty weak. Theoretically I suppose he could have let them hit him, or perhaps he was supposed to be 'distracted' by the way-hotter-than-MJ Gwen Stacy.

But that first blind-side by Harry was inexcusable.

[Scaryfaced]

Spiderman in Emo-mode ruined the movie, especially that strutting scene. It was all Downhill from there. If they were smart, Spiderman 3 would have either been entirely devoted to the Sandman or to Venom. Venom obviously would have been the best choice. Instead, what do they do? Ruin the symbiote story line with the possiblity of a Carnage movie by doing the obvious and killin off the only worthwhile villian come out of the spidey universe in the last 20 years. What are they going to do for Spiderman 4? Introduce the Shocker? Laughable at best. Or maybe the Vulture? Pffft.

The CG effects on Venom were impressive if you ask me. He was scary as hell for all 10 minutes he was on screen. I'll even conseed that Topher was a pretty decent Venom, he bulked up quite impressively actually.The smart move would have been to introduce blacksuit spidey right away, have him rip it off about an hour in, then have the final hour + devoted only the the Venom/spiderman story with the hints of Carnage at the very end. Instead they ruined it all to get a nice sappy ending. It makes me wonder if Sam Raimi ever read the spiderman comics during the Venom years. If he did, he'd have known Venom isnt a throw away villian.

[Voodoo]

Yeah, I excluded Venom. He gets hit with a spitball for crying out loud in the first scene.... don't we recall that happening in the first movie and he slow-mo dodges? It was just something that bugged me the whole time.
This bugged me as well. I saw it twice over the weekend and felt that Spidey Sense was somehow dropped. He didn't sense anything at all, not even remotely and was always reactive. Definitely something wrong there as he had keen Spidey Sense in both SM1 and SM2.

[ajvchuk]

So how much will Spiderman 4 make?

[atariv8]

The whole reason romance movies end when the people get together is so you don't see the crap that goes on afterward. Spiderman 3 was just about the romantic aftermath that happens when reality sets in. Do I really want to see that train wreck in a Spiderman film? And I love the badly conceived and placed plot devices that helped push the movie along...yawn. I guess I still have Spiderman 2.

[handsalad]

With the inclusion of more vilians this time around it looks like the writters are taking cues from the Batman movies. Maybe Spiderman 4 will be like Batman and Robin and there will be supervillians to go around and maybe Spider girl could be in that one too. Then maybe a new director will take over and turn the movies around like Batman Begins and I will actually go see Spiderman movies again.

[NSFW]

I thought Bruce Campbell was genius.

[GrinR]

I would like to take this opportunity to once again laugh at all the Vemon fans. Venom is a boring, flat, desperate attempt to harness the "dark comic" fans with a character that's barely worth one comic, much less the dreary spinoffs it spawned.

Topher was in fact great as Brock, something I didn't expect, and was wasted on the one-note Venom plotline. For those who had a problem with how the symbiote got to Parker (stupid random meteor? Deus ex machina, anyone?), I have to ask, is it really any more stupid than him poking a machine in Galactus' crib and having it pop out? It was an excuse to "coolify" Spidey then and it's no different now.

[Phil Sucks]

I heard that due to length issues they had to cut the scene where Spidey loads his iPod with Dashboard Confessional and angstily swings around the city.

What are they going to do for Spiderman 4? Introduce the Shocker? Laughable at best. Or maybe the Vulture? Pffft.

I think the doctor who analyzed the symbiote only had one arm so I'm guessing 4 will be the Lizard.

[SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER]
Venom died in the classic "The End....?" way. He'll probably be back or the little bit of symbiote left will form Carnage. Although to further fuck my eyes they'll probably have Carnage be a chick in a pink costume who'll spout witty lines like 'this city needs a lady's touch'.
[SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER]

[TurboKinny]

3 of the biggest franchises of all time come out JUST IN May: Spiderman, Shrek, and Pirates. Transformers comes out in July. Harry Potter comes out in...June? Die Hard 4 comes out later. Transformers near the end of the summer. AND there's a Pixar movie coming out. Fantastic Four 2. Ocean's Thirteen. The Bourne Ultimatum. The Simpsons Movie.

That's Thirteen large releases for May-August. I don't like all of them, but that is just absolutely insane.Thirteen? I count 11:
Spiderman
Shrek
Pirates
Transformers
Harry Potter
Die Hard 4
Pixar crap
Fantastic Four 2
Ocean's Thirteen
Bourne Ultimatum
Simpsons

Back to the SM3 bashing, though. I liked the first, was bored with the second, and have no interest in the third. I'd see it multiple times, though, if they'd kill of Kirsten Dunst (freaky troll monster.)

[Voodoo]

I'd see it multiple times, though, if they'd kill of Kirsten Dunst (freaky troll monster.)Seconded! Seconded!

[Blue]

I saw Spider-man. Twice. Didn't much care for Venom as I wasn't a huge fan of the CGI nor the voice for him, but all in all I thought Spider-man was fantastic. Heck, I got to see Spider-man and Goblin Jr. fight a six or so story Sand-man. Totally worth every penny. *shrug*

[DaXIthR]

Pixar crap

It's called Ratatouille, and directed by Brad Bird. There's a 9-minute trailer out at Disney.com.

[Virtuoso]

My one gripe (and it's not much of a spolier) is that for some reason in this movie Spidey doesn't have his spidey-sense. It's a weird oversight, considering how integral that power is to the superhero. I couldn't count how many times he got suprised or blindsided during a fight - and frankly, that's just bullshit.


I never thought about that, but it is true and strangely so.

Bastard Raimi, he needs to go back to making evil dead movies. Now THOSE were enjoyable.

[Blue]

It's called Ratatouille, and directed by Brad Bird. There's a 9-minute trailer out at Disney.com.

And it looks absolutely brilliant.

[TurboKinny]

It's called Ratatouille, and directed by Brad Bird. There's a 9-minute trailer out at Disney.com.oh that! That's not crap at all! :rolleyes:

truly, though, I wouldn't mind being dragged to it by my girlfriends, unlike most of the shit they see.

[NightRain]

I heard that due to length issues they had to cut the scene where Spidey loads his iPod with Dashboard Confessional and angstily swings around the city.


I think the doctor who analyzed the symbiote only had one arm so I'm guessing 4 will be the Lizard.

[SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER]
Venom died in the classic "The End....?" way. He'll probably be back or the little bit of symbiote left will form Carnage. Although to further fuck my eyes they'll probably have Carnage be a chick in a pink costume who'll spout witty lines like 'this city needs a lady's touch'.
[SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER]

Hmm... Dr. Conners has been in all 3 movies, people have been expecting the Lizard because of that since the first movie.

[Darkholmme]

I too picked Hot Fuzz over Spidey.

"By the power of Greyskull!"

[Predation]

http://www.applegeeks.com/lite/strips/aglite21.jpg

Ahh applegeeks archives, how did you know?

[anakin876]

I too picked Hot Fuzz over Spidey.

"By the power of Greyskull!"

I saw that for the second time today - still good.

[KingGorilla]

I too picked Hot Fuzz over Spidey.

"By the power of Greyskull!"
Quite possibly the FINEST line in a movie ever.

[Snipee]

Multiple bad guys in a comic != multiple bad guys in a film.

Even Star Trek, for all its complicated space opera politics, would pick one "villain" for its films.

People wonder why the newer Star Wars movies blew. For me, it was the fact that you never could quite figure out who the bad guy was. There was supposed to be one single threat, which is what all the press suggested, but until Anakin became Vader everything was muddled in trade federations and the Senate and other crappity crap.

When you're reading a comic, you're able to sit and process it. That's why multiple villains (and we're not counting your typical red-shirt enemies) work for that. In a film, it ain't so simple. It's got one installment to make its mark and that's it. Comics, just wait for next week/month/bi-week. If you don't get it then, you'll get it on the next one. Or the next. Or the next. That's the beauty of the medium - it's always evolving and you're able to fix what you broke almost immediately.

And I love the Spider-Man comics, but to suggest that because it works in the comic that it's a justification for a muddled and crowded film is... well, it's retarded.

Maybe your just slow...I processed it just fine.

[roboninja]

I would like to take this opportunity to once again laugh at all the Vemon fans. Venom is a boring, flat, desperate attempt to harness the "dark comic" fans with a character that's barely worth one comic, much less the dreary spinoffs it spawned.

Topher was in fact great as Brock, something I didn't expect, and was wasted on the one-note Venom plotline. For those who had a problem with how the symbiote got to Parker (stupid random meteor? Deus ex machina, anyone?), I have to ask, is it really any more stupid than him poking a machine in Galactus' crib and having it pop out? It was an excuse to "coolify" Spidey then and it's no different now.
Agreed. We need the Rhino in the next movie. Spidey can use some black pepper to drown him in mud, foiling his plans to take over the world by building a golden statue of himself.
EDIT: Reading my post, I realized it might come off as sarcastic towards your Venom stance. I agree with what you said on Venom, and like the "classic" spidey villains more.