Spidey starts the summer
Though Captain America’s second solo gig really launched the “summer” movie season across the pond, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 kicked off the more official start with a healthy $92 million opening according to studio estimates, ahead of the previous film and sure to make Sony happy as it fell in line with expectations for the Spider-sequel.
And added to its worldwide haul so far, the film is up to more than $369 million in a couple of weeks, which will boost confidence in the studio’s ambitious plans for further spin-offs, sequels, and a TV show in which a dog inherits the powers of the web-crawler and… All right, so perhaps not the last one. But suffice to say: the current version of the Spider-Man universe, no matter how many films Andrew Garfield is signed on for, looks set to stay with us for a while, for good and ill.
Other studios decided to keep their movies out of the way of the Spidey truck, so the rest of the chart is mostly shifting between established players. The Other Woman fell to second place, adding $14.2 million, ahead of faith-based drama Heaven Is For Real, which is showing legs by clinging to third place with $8.7 million and $65 million to date. Captain America: The Winter Soldier, meanwhile, took in $7.7 million this weekend, boosting its running US total to $237 million and seeing its worldwide haul cross the $670 million mark. Rio 2 dropped to fifth place, taking in $7.6 million.
Brick Mansions fell one place to sixth with $3.5 million in the bank – it’ll struggle to make its budget back with $15.4 million from the US so far, but overseas figures will probably help with that. Divergent managed to clamber up two places, rising to seventh and earning $2.1 million in the process. Hammer’s new horror The Quiet Ones continued to underperform, heading to eighth and $2 million, while God’s Not Dead climbed back into the top 10 for $1.76 million. The Grand Budapest Hotel was also a re-entry, moving up from 13th to 10th place, and adding $1.73 million for $51 million in the US and more than $140 million worldwide. While The Royal Tenenbaums remains Wes Anderson’s top earner if you adjust for inflation, the new movie is sitting atop the regular list, hopping over Moonrise Kingdom to take the prime spot.
To see Spidey take on Cameron Diaz and Jesus in the full chart listings, head to Box Office Mojo.
from Empire News
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