The Amazing Spider-Man 2 had debuted with a measly $91.6 million while the King of Monsters hit two weeks later with a monster (excuse the pun) amount of $93.2 million. While the difference might seem like pocket change to studios, it didn't stop many critics of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 to show the numbers as the Spider-Man property's downfall. However, it appears it is time for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 advocates to rejoice as The Amazing Spider-Man 2 proved to have longer legs than its competition and brought in $187,111,831 by May 26th, the fourth weekend it was out. While it was a holiday weekend in the United States, Godzilla was also able to use this to its advantage and, might I add, much more effectively due to having a higher novelty than the superhero sequel. Godzilla had managed to take in $7.5 million on that day alone, which gave it a huge advantage over the second Monday The Amazing Spider-Man 2 gross of $2.25 million. Godzilla, still, has proven to be more successful, at least domestically, with the $160 million put into the production costs than The Amazing Spider-Man 2, whose budget, optimistically, fell to $200 million and even went as high as $255 million, not including insane marketing costs reaching into the region of $150-180 million. Despite The Amazing Spider-Man 2 having made about $2 million more (which, again, is pocket change to studios) by this point than Godzilla, which has managed $185,966,351 upon June 9th (the same day counted for The Amazing Spider-Man 2), it is clear that Godzilla is the more successful film domestically. Still, The Amazing Spider-Man 2's international grosses, again, come to the rescue as it helps push Spider-Man to victory by approximately $300 million, which covers both the difference in production and marketing. With Godzilla still set to smash his way into the box office of China, a major player in the global box office, Godzilla could start to close that gap leaving only a small margin of victory for the web-slinger. And, considering the expectations for both films, it is hard to say that Godzilla was not more successful than Spider-Man, despite the financial reasoning.
Both movies are set for sequels with The Amazing Spider-Man 3 set to hit theatres on June 10, 2016 and the sequel to Godzilla expected to arrive after a new Star Wars spin-off that Gareth Edwards is directing.