{"id":621,"date":"2007-05-06T23:30:45","date_gmt":"2007-05-06T23:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2007\/05\/06\/more-records-broken-by-spider-man-3\/"},"modified":"2007-05-06T23:30:45","modified_gmt":"2007-05-06T23:30:45","slug":"more-records-broken-by-spider-man-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2007\/05\/06\/more-records-broken-by-spider-man-3\/","title":{"rendered":"More records broken by Spider-Man 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/spidey-box-office-champ.jpg\" title=\"Spidey celebrates more records\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/spidey-box-office-champ.jpg\" title=\"Spidey celebrates more records\" alt=\"Spidey celebrates more records\" align=\"right\" height=\"261\" width=\"273\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0413300\/\"><strong>Spider-Man 3<\/strong><\/a> continues its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/movies\/?id=spiderman3.htm\">record breaking run<\/a> at cinemas around the globe with a $375 million box office haul.<\/p>\n<p>In the US it also broke the 3-day record (set last summer by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0383574\/\">Pirates 2<\/a>) by grossing $148 million.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Mohr of Variety <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117964350.html?categoryid=13&amp;cs=1\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Spider-Man 3&#8221; swung into theaters over the weekend with $148 million in ticket sales, according to estimates, shattering records for biggest opening weekend ever at the North American B.O., as well as biggest opening day on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Third in the Spidey series easily surpassed the previous record holder for biggest first day and weekend, Disney&#8217;s &#8220;Pirates of the Caribbean:<\/p>\n<p>Dead Man&#8217;s Chest,&#8221; which raked in $55.8 million in a single day when it bowed last July for a three-day tally of $135.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>Opening-day for &#8220;Spider-Man 3&#8221; on Friday was a whopping $59 million domestically.<\/p>\n<p>Pic was the biggest worldwide weekend ever as well, with $375 million overall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After some of the rather snarky <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/film\/titles\/spiderman3\">reviews<\/a> it got (many of them <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn?node=cityguide\/profile&amp;id=1093363&amp;categories=Movies&amp;nm=1\">bleating<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calendarlive.com\/printedition\/calendar\/cl-et-spider2may02,0,1136280.story\">the<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/downloads.bbc.co.uk\/rmhttp\/downloadtrial\/fivelive\/markkermodesfilmreviews\/markkermodesfilmreviews_20070504-1800_40_st.mp3\">same<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/arts\/critics\/cinema\/2007\/05\/07\/070507crci_cinema_lane\">predictable<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasobserver.com\/2007-05-03\/film\/spider-bites\/\">tune<\/a>), I&#8217;m sure <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000600\/\">Sam Raimi<\/a> and his team are glad that audiences are responding to the film.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117964350.html?categoryid=13&amp;cs=1\">Original story at Variety<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/movies\/?id=spiderman3.htm\">Latest numbers from Box Office Mojo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spider-Man 3 continues its record breaking run at cinemas around the globe with a $375 million box office haul. In the US it also broke the 3-day record (set last summer by Pirates 2) by grossing $148 million. Ian Mohr of Variety reports: &#8220;Spider-Man 3&#8221; swung into theaters over the weekend with $148 million in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}