BOX OFFICE: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 Swings In With Disappointing $91.7M Total

BOX OFFICE: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 Swings In With Disappointing $91.7M Total

A three day total of $91.7 million is by no means a bad start for any movie, but one featuring Marvel's most recognisable superhero? The Amazing Spider-Man 2 isn't exceeding expectations, and while it will make those numbers up overseas, it won't top the first instalment's cume by much!

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By JoshWilding - May 05, 2014 01:05 PM EST
Filed Under: Spider-Man


The box office success of the Spider-Man movies have been on the decline in North America for quite some time now, so it perhaps shouldn't come as too much of a surprise that this latest instalment hasn't had an opening anywhere near as big as expected. Sony were projecting a total worldwide haul of $1 billion, and based on the way they marketed it and the positive reception to The Amazing Spider-Man, that number shouldn't have been out of the question.

However, it is, and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 will be lucky to top its predecessor (and if it does, $50 million more at most is what it's looking at). While it will never be a flop, a huge budget and $200+ million on marketing make this a disappointment in the eyes of Sony in the long run. What impact this and the tepid critical response will have on The Amazing Spider-Man 3 remains to be see. The fact that it couldn't beat another recent Marvel sequel - Captain America: The Winter Soldier - is embarrassing, especially as that features a far less recognisable character and the first movie in that franchise earned around half of The Amazing Spider-Man's worldwide cume.

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sKeemAn
sKeemAn - 5/5/2014, 1:13 PM
First
RextheKing
RextheKing - 5/5/2014, 1:23 PM
So from a non Sony and non marvelite was the film good, great, okay, bad, or terrible?
sKeemAn
sKeemAn - 5/5/2014, 1:24 PM
Reboot fatigue is right on the money.
YeezusWept
YeezusWept - 5/5/2014, 1:24 PM
SageMode
SageMode - 5/5/2014, 1:25 PM
Looks like that Word of Mouth is taking effect......
sKeemAn
sKeemAn - 5/5/2014, 1:25 PM
@yoss

Thats the excercise me and the misses perform everynight. She's a heavyweight, making my legs look superb. lol
Moohika
Moohika - 5/5/2014, 1:28 PM
@RextheKing
I liked it, it wasn't great but no where near as bad as some people make it out to be. I didn't really like the first one but surprisingly, I really enjoyed this one.
McNyagano
McNyagano - 5/5/2014, 1:28 PM
Dissapointing but...
CaptainObvious
CaptainObvious - 5/5/2014, 1:28 PM
This is what happens when you reboot a franchise that was never broken to begin with.
Lozzy
Lozzy - 5/5/2014, 1:29 PM
Audiences are getting tired of Spider-man I guess.
Abary
Abary - 5/5/2014, 1:29 PM
Doesn't deserve much more. Great visually, but otherwise an utter trainwreck.
Trickwil
Trickwil - 5/5/2014, 1:29 PM
Captain America was first for a long time for 2 reasons, timing and people saw it and told friends and people saw it twice. That's not likely to happen with TASM 2...it's probably going to be the opposite.
McGee
McGee - 5/5/2014, 1:30 PM
DefcoN
DefcoN - 5/5/2014, 1:31 PM
I'm watching it this Friday, but man, honestly after all the bashing and praise it got from both sides, I don't know what to expect.
MightOfMagneto
MightOfMagneto - 5/5/2014, 1:31 PM
This movie su......

Nah.. I enjoyed watching it... This is an Avengers-type of movie...

generic but fun!
McGee
McGee - 5/5/2014, 1:32 PM
SuperCat
SuperCat - 5/5/2014, 1:32 PM
Doo-Doo on film.
UltimateHunt
UltimateHunt - 5/5/2014, 1:33 PM
Weirdest film ever. I do recommend to watch it but if Spidey is ur fav SuperHero. The movie will be good but you know its not that great. All sony's fault and there and there Marc Webb's plot holes.
Weirdest film ever- I could talk how good it is, how mediocre it is? And how piss I am at mothe[frick]ing sony
MightOfMagneto
MightOfMagneto - 5/5/2014, 1:33 PM
WorldWide BoxOffice money sits at

$368,608,337

:D

McNyagano
McNyagano - 5/5/2014, 1:33 PM
Lmao @cwarrior
Chrome
Chrome - 5/5/2014, 1:34 PM
Why does the article have to mention TWS? This is crap reporting.. shows your bias.

Lets see.. the article says that Spidey 2 will make a profit, it won't be a flop.. then later it calls the movie a failure..WTF.. if it doesn't flop then techincally its not a failure!

It if doesn't flop it will get a sequel where they can make improvements.

CaptainAmerica31
CaptainAmerica31 - 5/5/2014, 1:34 PM
It's not batman and robin bad and it's not spiderman 3 bad. It's iron man 2 bad. This should wake up the guys at Sony. I think they need scrap off Sinister six and venom. Only do 3 TASM movies and then wait 10-15 years to reboot. I'm assuming the production time was extended and the rights are actually going to stay in Sonys hand for a really long time after the deal they worked out with Disney. So don't hope for a revert any time soon.
MrSoloDolo
MrSoloDolo - 5/5/2014, 1:34 PM
ASM2 was amazing! Everybody should give it a try and block out all the bitchin
UltimateHunt
UltimateHunt - 5/5/2014, 1:34 PM
Wait!??
Sony expected a billion, if it doesnt, does that mean we will get spiderman vs batman (all for the billion?)
McGee
McGee - 5/5/2014, 1:35 PM
I just hope the next one isn't an origin story.

Also....get the right Peter Parker this time.
RextheKing
RextheKing - 5/5/2014, 1:35 PM
@ Doopie and Moohika thanks!
TotesMagotes12
TotesMagotes12 - 5/5/2014, 1:35 PM
Left out the part where it's breaking records overseas...
GUNSMITH
GUNSMITH - 5/5/2014, 1:35 PM
THIS ONE LOOKED BETTER FX COSTUMING ECT..I WOULDA LIKED TO SEE THE MORE TRADITIONAL LOOKING GOBLIN

...THEY KEEP GOING TECHY..



YOU'D THINK WITH ALL THE DAMN HYBRID EXPERIMENTATION THEY'D COMBINE CRAP AND ACTUALLY GET TO USE THE SCRAPPED GOBLIN FROM THE RAIMI SPIDERMAN MOVIE...
giannis
giannis - 5/5/2014, 1:35 PM
@RextheKing It was terrible.
Chewtoy
Chewtoy - 5/5/2014, 1:35 PM
The problem with comparing it to other Spidey films is that other ones didn't all open on Fridays. Spider-man 2 opened on a Wednesday and had already banked $64m before the weekend began. The first Amazing Spider-man opened on a Tueday (with monday previews) and banked $75m before the weekend began. So yes, $91m is more than either of those films made on their opening weekends, but they had already burned off a lot of "must-see" tickets before the weekend rolled around.

I have to wonder what this does for those "Spider-man movie every year" plans, as well as things like the "Sinister Six" film. These are too expensive to keep investing that kind of money into a property that only breaks even with the character in the title, let alone on something as risky as 6 villains headlining a flick. They'd be better off to let anticipation for a film grow, than to keep churning them out and kill off the golden goose.
UltimateHunt
UltimateHunt - 5/5/2014, 1:36 PM
@Captainamerica
Its mos bad/good/eh/great film.
Im saying. Weirdest film
BruceLeroy
BruceLeroy - 5/5/2014, 1:36 PM
I liked the film *shrug*
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