$92 million is obviously nothing to turn our noses up at, but for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 it seems a little low, especially given we’re talking about the first weekend in May, the month that supposedly kicks off the Summer movie season with a bang. After all, the film was tracking toward $102 million, but a string of negative reviews didn’t help and it seems word of mouth won’t help much as the CinemaScore came back a “B+”.
Last year Iron Man 3 brought in $174.1 million, in 2012 The Avengers brought in $207.4 million, in 2010 Iron Man finished with $128.1 million. Of course, Spider-Man 2‘s numbers are bigger than those of X-Men Origins: Wolverine in 2009 and Thor‘s in 2011, but it really does look like summer began this year with Captain America: The Winter Soldier in April.
One thing this film can hang its hat on is the fact it opened $30 million higher than 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man reboot, which is a massive increase and with Sony having big plans for the franchise it will be interesting to see where they go from here. It’s definitely doing big business overseas where it brought in $10.4 million in one day in China and enjoyed the biggest opening weekend ever for a US film in India, bringing in $6.5 million. Overall it was a big, $116 million weekend internationally, ultimately giving the film a $369 worldwide tally so far.
As for Captain America 2, it brought in another $7.7 million this weekend bringing its domestic cume to $237.1 million as its global total now crosses $679.8 million.
In second, The Other Woman dipped only 42.7% to $14.2 million for a ten-day total of $47.3 million and in third Heaven is for Real dipped 39.4% for a third weekend total of $8.7 million and a domestic cume up to $65.6 million.
Opening in limited release this weekend, Fox Searchlight’s Belle managed $104,000 from four theaters for a $26,125 per theater average and Elizabeth Banks hit 51 theater and On Demand simultaneously with Walk of Shame and the theater showing wasn’t impressive, bringing in only $38,000 and average of only $745… and nine cents.
Next weekend the only major newcomer in town is the R-rated comedy Neighbors starring Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne and Zac Efron, though if it opens near you, I enjoyed Jon Favreau‘s Chef, but it’s only getting a limited release so it may be hard for some of you to find.
