BOX OFFICE: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN Passes $700M Mark Worldwide

Why are so many people paying for this?

This is good, now let's hope Sony learned it lesson from the mistakes made in this one...

Good movie. That's it. I'm glad it's doing so well though because the cast deserve it, and hopefully we will get a MUCH better sequel.

Even though I didn't love the film i'm glad to see it do well.

i loved it it was by far my fave movie of the summer. so let the haters hate.

Box Office Report: 'Amazing Spider-Man' Beats 'Dark Knight Rises' in China

Marc Webb's reboot grosses $5.5 million, compared to $4.5 million for Christopher Nolan's final Batman pic.

In a superhero showdown, The Amazing Spider-Man beat The Dark Knight Rises as both films opened in China Monday.

From Sony, director Marc Webb's Amazing-Spider Man opened to a stellar $5.5 million. The origins pic has now grossed north of $700 million worldwide, successfully relaunching the marquee franchise.

Christopher Nolan's final Batman pic, from Warner Bros. and Legendary Entertainment, grossed $4.5 million for a foreign cume of $528.7 million and worldwide total of $951.7.
IMAX theaters in China enjoyed a majority of the business for Dark Knight Rises, or $3.2 million.

Hollywood studios have little control when it comes to release dates in China, which are decided by the government.

Source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-report-dark-knight-rises-china-365781




The original version of this story incorrectly reported that The Dark Knight Rises beat Amazing Spider-Man.

This Spider-man film disappointed me. When I went to see it I couldn't wait for it to end. It was boring in my opinion. But good on it. I hope the squeal is better.

@MARVELPSYCHO79

I'm hardly alone on thinking this way. Newsarama, Roger Ebert, Christy Lemire and a hell lot of top critic reviewers think the same as I do. And I don't think you understand, me saying that The Amazing Spider-Man topped Batman Begins and Iron Man doesn't mean that they are less brilliant, great movies. Here's how I rank them on my all time CBMs list:

1. The Avengers
2. The Amazing Spider-Man
3. Batman Begins
4. Iron Man
5. Spider-Man 2

@yossarian How did they make Randy Orton look so young in that clip?

@Nosferatu

That's not what she wrote. And she isn't an Associated Press reviewer for nothing. Could you be any more mysoginist with that "woman" remark? Not cool, dude.

I wouldn't put this in league with IM & BB as far as origin movie. No way.

I endorse LoudLon's statement.

Regarding Dr. Ratha and alternate takes from The Amazing Spider-Man:

Once Batman Begins was over, there were a lot of inmates that never got caught, and that subplot was literally dropped from the sequels. With that said, I don't call that a plot hole, but a subplot that went unresolved in the trilogy.

What some of you call as "plot holes" in The Amazing Spider-Man, I call it as mystery. Understand this, Peter was never able to find out the "truth" about him in this film. The two scenes that were cut probably would make it too obvious for the sequel, but hints about why Peter Parker didn't die when that spider bite him are still there for those paying attention. Or haven't you seen the scene where Dr. Connors explains to Peter that no other single specimen had survived the cross-species process? If Webb and Sony would want us to think that it's resolved within this movie, that the origin won't be touched in the sequels, they could easily have cutted that scene as well.

These scenes would probably just hint what was the truth, but Lizard would be able to take down Dr. Ratha before he was able to tell anything. The biggest clue is in the mid-credits of the film, when who I believe it's Max Dillon, asks Dr. Curt Connors if did he tell the boy about his father. See, I love Nolan, but his approach relies heavily in exposition. Not all the directors pick that route, and if you watch TASM, you'll see that more than once nuance it's used to indicate things more than the movie explaining itself to the audience: the way May is watching the news, almost looking like she is figuring out that that boy in a spider-costume is her kid; the Wanted picture hanging in Peter's bedroom while Peter is finally able to listen the message that his Uncle left on his cellphone; the speech about responsibility and so on.

I'd argue that The Amazing Spider-Man has a very nuanced approach of storytelling and character development than Batman Begins and even the previous Spider-Man's trilogy. It doesn't give you all the answers, and even when it does or hints them, it forces you to think about them. It was never supposed to answer everything right in the first film, these sequences that some people claim that would "resolve" the "plot holes" would probably just be yet another hints that there's a reason why Peter was the only one able to survive the "cross-species" process. I believe that eventually we'll end up seeing the deleted scenes, but you need to understand that the mystery would never left the film. It's already there, and I believe it was never to go away in the first film to begin with. And there isn't a more right or wrong way to approach storytelling when it comes to films, it's not either exposition resolving all the subplots or nothing. I love that there is a mystery and an ongoing theme going through these films, and I can't wait to see how it will play out. It's just different than what Batman Begins did, and not every film needs exposition to work with. Both The Amazing Spider-Man and Batman Begins are brilliant films for different reasons IMHO.

The truth about his father, based on what the virals has informed us, it's probably that Dr. Richard Parker never tested with any human subjects, not even himself. But he did used his DNA to hide the decaying formula. He never actually tested the formula like Dr. Curt Connors did, but one of those spiders held the secret right where Oscorp wouldn't look: inside Oscorp. The spider with Richard Parker's DNA was probably never meant to be used by either him or anyone else, it was just a test to see if the decaying formula would work.

Somehow and by fate, since Peter Parker gets to Oscorp through a random twist of fate, that spider acknowledged that Peter had the same DNA and bite him. I believe there's more, much more that Richard Parker was involved researching and the true reason that they had to live, which is the Venom suit, but that's probably for another sequel.

@jollem

Agree with you on TASM & that picture is hilarious!

I like the film. I am a little disappointed that it won't make as much as any of the other Spider-Man films even though it's the best one. Bring on the sequel!