Spidey & MJ the 2nd most Lucrative Silver Screen Couples

Spidey & MJ the 2nd most Lucrative Silver Screen Couples

Forbes Magazine has ranked the top 5 highest-grossing cinematic couples, and Raimi's Tobey & Kirsten fall just short of the top

By thwip - Feb 13, 2010 11:02 AM EST
Filed Under: Spider-Man
Source: Forbes.com

This from Forbes.com:

"To compile our list we considered romantic parings that had appeared in at least two films together in the past 20 years. We ranked the pairs based on non-inflation adjusted worldwide box office grosses, as calculated by Box Office Mojo. Animated movies were not included."

Topping off the list with $2.9 billion in worldwide earnings is everyone's favorite sword-weilding "interracial" couple: Viggo Mortensen and Liv Tyler as Aragorn and Arwen in Peter Jackson's epic trilogy "The Lord of the Rings."

Falling just short of the pointy-ears-and-pointier-swords Middle-earth couple is our beloved "tiger," Spider-man, with his "Marvel"-ous redhead, Mary Jane. As if I needed to say this, they were played by Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst for three consecutive web-headed movies.

Trailing behind at slot #3 are Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, who shared two very different, yet both ill-fated, romances on the big screen, first in "Titanic" and then in "Revolutionary Road." The movies brought in $1.8 billion and $75 million, respectively, worldwide.

Slot #4 belongs to the two "Transformers" movies, which together raked in $1.5 billion worldwide. And no, it's not the touching love story between Sam and Bumblebee. Sadly, many moviegoers actually do find the chemistry between Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox endearing.

Bringing up the list's tail is a couple that could very well overtake some of even (hope not) all of the other contenders. Why do I hope not? Well, this couple sucks...literally. The vampiric romance between Robert Pattinson's Edward Cullen and Kristen Stewart's Bella has sucked $1.1 billion out of the world's wallets so far with just two movies, and at least two more are on the way. After all, has a more romantic line than, "You're like my own personal brand of heroin," ever been uttered on camera before?

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jusme6
jusme6 - 2/13/2010, 11:44 AM
Ha! Take that Jack Dawson and Rose from Titanic!
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 2/13/2010, 1:04 PM
Suck that SONY!!!

GRIF @ Hell yeah!

[frick] a REBOOT!!! : D
thwip
thwip - 2/13/2010, 1:05 PM
such spite on this message board!
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 2/13/2010, 2:35 PM
Such spite! : P

Come on,,, an ULTI-SPIDEY teeny bop reboot is gonna be a piece of sh1t and will fail!

If they are gonna reboot, do it as a continuation of the franchise, ignore a lot of 3, new cast = $$$$$$$
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 2/13/2010, 5:39 PM
What about Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise in Top Gun?
chasingtheflash
chasingtheflash - 2/13/2010, 6:30 PM
screw twilight! cut the balls right off vampires! dracula would be ashamed!
AvengingAngel1022
AvengingAngel1022 - 2/13/2010, 8:43 PM
is this for valentines day i hate valentines day
InTylerWeTrust
InTylerWeTrust - 2/13/2010, 8:45 PM
I'd give them the #1 spot, just for Peter having the balls to stick with MJ and save her again and again, even if she's probably the most annoying bitch on the face of the Spider-Earth :)

Bravo Mr. Parker, bravo.
Matowar
Matowar - 2/13/2010, 8:46 PM
I dont mind Jake Gyllenhaal as long as they dont put Maggie Gyllenhaal that pig nosed heffer in it. I was so glad that abomination to the eyes died in The Dark Knight. Just thinking about her makes my willy crawl so far up inside me that you would swear that I had a vag.
InTylerWeTrust
InTylerWeTrust - 2/13/2010, 9:01 PM
"Just thinking about her makes my willy crawl so far up inside me that you would swear that I had a vag."

Can I nominate this for Funniest Statement of the Year?
HeyVanity
HeyVanity - 2/13/2010, 10:11 PM
I must agree with Tyler there, haha.
phenomenon
phenomenon - 2/14/2010, 6:46 AM
@leee & grif...... absolutely!!! this even proves that kirsten dunst was'nt bad!!lol

and unbelievable that the studios consider a reboot!!!

I start to suspect that all these reboots have nothing to do with quality .


Let me guess the following........ the studio bosses are afraid that the concepts are chewed out. well , than what to do...... you try to make money from the same concept in a new jacket. stir some shit around among CB-movie fans( we are all talking about it). you have your free advertisement because of that, and than release it!! you know that the first three did commercially quite good, and now you can squeeze the last bucks and euros out of the pockets and than stop the SM-movies.

and by now we are all so fed up with this spidey, that SM, stands more for sado-masochism than spiderman!!

thwip
thwip - 2/14/2010, 9:43 AM
holy parking meters, batman!

...i "made main" on my first ever article. hurrah!
Matowar
Matowar - 2/14/2010, 10:53 PM
Im not being a jerk Maggie is for having that face! Seriously she couldn't just take some of her money and get that face fixed. I mean come on no one should be able to go out in public with that kind of face.
jusme6
jusme6 - 2/15/2010, 7:16 PM
@MovieLad: Gocha back on this one.
@Matowar: What? Seriously? Dude, that girl is ridiculously cute and adorable. Have you seen "Stranger than Fiction"? Dude, that girl is awesome. No she will never win a Supermodel bikini contest, but that girl is fun, quick, whitty, smart, and she's got real pretty eyes, hair, smile and she's got some bad-ass tatoos. She's very original and I hope her career continues to take off.

You on the other hand seem to have the cruelty of a 12 year old bully. Are you a 12 year old bully? You may feel powerful now, but good luck ever getting a girlfriend.
Matowar
Matowar - 2/15/2010, 9:20 PM
Seriously? Well I guess there has to be people that will want the ugly chicks. I would turn gay before I would ever want anything to do with that nasty creature. Thats right creature because that thing is not a woman. Maybe I am 12 what does that matter?
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