‘Spider-Man’ Opens Foreign With $50.2M: Bigger Than ‘Avengers’ In Some Markets
EXCLUSIVE… UPDATE: Sources are telling me that Sony Pictures‘ The Amazing Spider-Man swept the Asian box office this weekend as the much-anticipated actioner opened early in a handful of international territories. The reboot of Marvel‘s most popular character will be released July 3rd in the U.S./Canada where rival studios report the tracking has been flat. ”It’s off to a fantastic start overseas,” an insider gushes to me. Here are the updated numbers from Sony Pictures:
In its first weekend of release, The Amazing Spider-Man grossed an estimated $50.2 million in 13 overseas markets in Asia while Europe remains under the influence of the Euro Cup football championships until tonight, with school vacations in full effect starting tomorrow.
KOREA earned $13.4M on 1,213 screens, capturing a 71% market share. The KW15.8B total for Thursday to Sunday is the 3rd biggest of all time for a Hollywood film, behind only the 2nd and 3rd Transformers films. This is 24% bigger than Spider-Man 3 and 10% more than Avengers.
JAPAN opened with $11.4M on 1,092 screens, pulling in an estimated 84% of the country’s Saturday-Sunday weekend box office.
INDIA grossed $6.0M on 1,236 screens, the biggest opening ever for a Hollywood film, 74% bigger than Spider-Man 3, 73% more than Avengers, and more than double the lifetime box office of The Dark Knight.
The PHILIPPINES bowed with $3.2M on 529 screens, capturing the entire market in its opening weekend. This is the 4th biggest Friday-Sunday opening ever (behind Avengers, Transformers 3, and Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1.)
TAIWAN did $2.9M on 268 screens while taking in 73% of the market’s weekend total. It is the 2nd biggest Fri-Sun weekend of the year (behind Avengers.)
HONG KONG earned $2.7M on 158 screens, pulling in 84% of the total market. This is the 4th biggest Friday-Sunday opening of all time.
SINGAPORE grossed $2.5M on 128 screens, the 3rd biggest Friday-Sunday opening of all time.
THAILAND opened to $1.9M on 320 screens, capturing 81% of the market. 10th biggest Friday-Sunday opening of all time.
VIETNAM grossed $425K on 41 screens, the 6th biggest Friday-Sunday opening of all time (and the 5th biggest Hollywood film.) It surpassed the lifetime box office total of Spider-Man 3.
In Europe, GERMANY grossed an estimated $4.2M on 755 screens (50% market share), HOLLAND earned $850K on 113 ,AUSTRIA opened to $480K on 85, and SWITZERLAND did $290K on 130.
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PREVIOUS: In Korea the 3D film debuted to $13M, bigger than Marvel’s The Avengers which scored one of the biggest openings ever there. The sources say that India took in $5+M, more than Avengers, for the biggest opening ever there for an American film. Singapore, Hong Kong, Phillippines all reported “huge” openings, too. It’s a very auspicious start for director Marc Webb and stars Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone in the Spider-Man origins film similar to the original told just 10 years ago. Disney may own Marvel now, but Sony Pictures doesn’t have to share its worldwide box office grosses from The Amazing Spider-Man. Instead, Disney/Marvel receives all the merchandising loot.
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I’ve posted my prediction over the boxoffice boards, but I’ll do it here too: I see this making between $165m-$200m FIRST SIX DAYS ALONE domestically. The floor for this domestically I see it as $325m, but I think it’s very likely that this will be the first reboot to ever cross the $400m barrier domestically.
July will be insane.
I agree with you 100%. I don’t think the “experts” have this one called right. The weekend exploded with two R rated films over performing in a HUGE way. SPIDERMAN opens on Tuesday, Holiday on Weds., people taking off work the rest of the week, VERY HOT weather driving people to the cinemas – and one new movie the whole family can go see – which is actually getting solid reviews. It’s going to fly past $200 mil in the first 6 days.
Not gonna happen. No one in my scope of friends, who are movie goers feel they need to see this movie. Now TDKR is definitely one I want to see in the theaters.
Oh I would hate to see Spiderman end up in The Avengers universe. Ditto X-Men. Some divorces are for the best rather than a fanwank orgy of connect the dots. And he wasn’t missed from The Avengers. Not even a little bit.
Remember, what works in comic/book etc form doesn’t always need to be literally translated to screen.
Anyways, not the least interested in Spidey but I’m sure with July 3/4 to itself it’ll pull in the dough before TDKR starts.
This guy/gal gets it. An abundance of Marvel characters in a “crossover” film may be desired by comic geeks, but movie audiences would see it as overkill. And as film execs know, opinions of the movie audiences matter more than those of the comic fans.
Just because Avengers made 1.5 billion doesn’t mean Marvel’s future movies won’t suck. Favreau, Downey, Branagh, Hemsworth, Johnston, Evans, Whedon, Johansson, Renner, Ruffalo and even Edward Norton gave that franchise its legitimacy. Real dramatists breathing life into 2-D source material.
Rumor is that the next phase of Avengers movies will include a Guardians of the Galaxy film. A team with a talking raccoon. Way to shoot yourselves in the foot, Marvel.
Is Seth MacFarlane directing that one? Then maybe there’s hope.
Yeah, i was looking for Marvel to push the envolope and do a BLACK PANTHER film like they should do. As long as BP is that 6th film in Phase 2 i’m cool with GOTG getiing done, but if they pushed BP out of the way in favor of doing “Guardians”, than i would pissed to no end at Marvel. If you go to generally any comic book movie forums the BLACK PANTHER seems to be a lot of people’s top choice for Marvel’s next unannounced movie, if Marvel is foolih enough to pass on doing a film on BP than apparently they don’t have they’re ears to the street like i had hoped.
Good for them. I say enjoy it while it lasts.
Just remember: John Carter and Battleship both had huge foreign openings.
Here in the states, the Total Recall remake is tracking better than this film. Think about that for a moment. Let it sink in.
Yeah. Scary, huh?
Wow! Tracking must be an accurate science. Let me check, tracking said that Ted would do around high 20′s to Low 30′s. It missed the mark by almost 100%. So enough with the Tracking is bad BS.
Also, Battleship & John Carter didn’t break any records anywhere. They opened in 80-90% of the foreign markets and scoree those numbers. TASM has opened only in a few Asian markets that too the smaller ones (except Japan). There is still Europe, Latin America, and China to open. This movie will make $500M easily from International market.
What, you need more convincing? Okie doke.
So the studio plants are hyping how Spidey is beating The Avengers “in some markets.” That’s all well and good, were it not for the fact Ice Age 4 is DESTROYING Spidey overall this weekend, 74 million to Spidey’s 50.2 mil.
Think about that, Keere. An uninspired animated fourquel with less than half it’s ad budget just handed TAS it’s damn proverbial hat. Of course they are trying to spin this by making hay out of the fact it outperformed The Avengers in some markets, it’s a smoke screen to cover up the fact the suits are going to spend the holiday week drowning in their own sweat.
I don’t think it’s fair to compare this film to Ted. Yes, Ted was underestimated, but it just barely qualifies as a blockbuster. Ted also has a more capricious demo; R-rated comedies are unpredictable, but Spidey is a four-quadrant, broadly-appealing film. Spidey will probably make $100m Tue-Sun, but I don’t think it will hold up particularly well, what with Ice Age hooking families and TDKR being bolstered by the superior marketing campaign (fact).
We talk a lot about Batman fanboys and Avengers fanboys, but what about the fanboys who are, for whatever reason, strangely desperate for this film to become a universal success, especially when it hasn’t even been seen by most people?
You’re right, tracking is not always accurate. Like you said they we’re off with TED missing by 20-25 million, they also predicted 40-45 million for BATTLESHIP and we see how those geniuses did there. Hell they missed pretty damn bad on the AVENGERS, they we’re all predicting 155-175 million, and we all know how that played out as well. Tracking misses quite a bit, they over predict and under predict, and they miss sometimes just like everyone else. What tracking can’t account for is walk up buisness, no one can predict that because you just don’t know how many people will show up and buy tickets physically in person. Everyone does’nt go online and buy tickets early, as hard as it may be for some people to believe, a lot of moviegoers still purchase movie tickets the old fashioned way.
Yeah i hear you, however John Carter & Battleship is not Spidey,this film is a beast of a different nature. And i can assure you that TASM will flop like those films in the states, which you should already know.
Also, as a true Marvel and Spider-Man fan, I don’t want The Amazing Spider-Man to fail so it could go back to Marvel/Disney staple. What I want to happen is an agreement over the use of The Amazing Spider-Man in The Avengers and whitin the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and that’s something that is quite possible, both Disney and Sony could generate a hell lot of profit of that. Besides that, we’ve reviews that keep saying that this is the best Spider-Man film yet and even the mixed reviews praise Andrew Garfield as THE Spider-Man/Peter Parker. I don’t want just a trilogy out of this, give a sixtology already. And Spidey in Avengers 2 with an epic scene where Spidey and Iron Man wisecrack the fuck out of each other.
PS: I don’t want him as an Avengers member, but helping them, just like the comics in the beginning.
Right. Spidey is NOT one of the Avengers! But he should be in the same universe as the Avengers and able to show up when warranted.
Ditto for The X-Men, even The Fantastic Four. Get all the kids in the same playpen!
You guys are dorks.
Saw the movie sat night imax viewshow cinemas In Taipei, theather was half empty. Will do same buiseness as john carter or battleship.
I saw this last Friday (in the Philippines) and the theatres where packed, despite it occupying nearly all screens. I think it won’t be as big as The Avengers, but this will make $200M in the US quite easily.
it might be very popular in India because of Irrfan Khan…, but anyway
it also has a “curse” of Emma Stone, every movie she’s in for the last 5 years becomes a HIT. This actress is on her track to be bigger than Julia Roberts was back in her day. Sony had a very right marketing compaign here: choose extremely likable actors, director praised for his characters interactions and you’ll get the controvercy with strong inclination into positivity (any fool would know from the beginnig that debate about rebooting too early is inevitable, the task was to use it).
Yes, I believe that this movie’s success will be more moderate comparing to the Avengers and might even ride mostly on its huge international wave, but I also believe that the real goal here is TASM 2 which is coming out in May 2014. We are looking at the new Batman trilogy formula here, and should expect the second film to get all the money and praise and even more…
I’m a comic book geek and I keep forgetting that this movie exists. Even with the odd trailer making the rounds, I don’t even see this thing being discussed on high traffic comic book discussion boards like CBR. Comic movie discussions go from Avengers straight to the Dark Knight Rises. Maybe the general public is still interested, but not comic book readers.
Gosh, the Avengers is just a glorified version of Transformers 3
Although a little annoying when the movie is presented as same size blockbuster as Titanic, Avatar or Star Wars
Titanic sold 128 million tickets to reach 600M in 1998
Avengers sold 70 million tickets to reach 600M in 2012
96% on Rotten Tomatoes and 86% on IMDB
It seems the audience is getting dumber
“It seems the audience is getting dumber.”
No, it’s just you.
BTW, The Avengers will end up selling about 160 million tickets WW. That’s what’s called a “blockbuster”. And only BatNerds think it’s equivalent to Transformers. It’s actually the anti-Transformers film, to anyone with any discernment.
“And only BatNerds think it’s equivalent to Transformers.” So A.O. Scott’s a Batnerd, then?
It’s just you who’s getting dumber, because the AVENGERS was epic and a great film. Listen to this clown comparing this to Transformers 3, kids this is what it sounds like when your brain is on drugs.
My excitement for ASM is as high as for a root canal. Which means none at all. It’s gonna do ok domestic but nothing spectacular. Sick of these reboots.