Tuesday, May 6, 2014

'Amazing Spider-Man 2:' Six arguments about its box office results - Los Angeles Times

"The Amazing Spider-Man 2" notched a solid $92 million when it stormed U.S. theaters over the weekend after a two-week preview abroad. But the numbers don't easily fall on one side of the ledger.

On the one hand, few movies can reach the $90 million opening mark—if the Marc Webb film opened in 2013 it would have wound up in the year-end top five. On the other hand, the Andrew Garfield-Emma Stone vehicle fell short of the biggest superhero sequels of the past few seasons—including "Iron Man 3's" massive $174 million a year ago on the same date.

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"Amazing Spider-Man 2" may have had one of the best U.! S. openings of the young year. But it's significantly down compared with previous "Spider-Man" titles, some of which weren't even in 3-D. In fact, every one of the "Spider-Man" movies has grossed less in the U.S. than the previous edition, starting with the inflation-adjusted $553 million for Raimi's debut blockbuster in 2002 and dropping off to a franchise-low $268 million for 2012's "The Amazing Spider-Man." Unless it gets a massive boost—and it's hard to see that with all the competition coming--this film is on track to fall short of the previous film's box office as well. A discouraging pattern if you're planning as many as two more pictures, as Sony is.

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