To celebrate Sony Pictures' 100th anniversary, every live-action Spider-Man movie is being re-released in theaters. Over the past few weeks, Sam Raimi's trilogy has returned to the big screen to much fanfare, but how did The Amazing Spider-Man fare yesterday evening?
Andrew Garfield is immensely popular among fans, but clearly not as much as Tobey Maguire.
The Amazing Spider-Man opened in 466 theaters and earned $510,000. That's quite a drop from Spider-Man ($683,000), Spider-Man 2 ($809,000), and Spider-Man 3 ($760,000). It might also make Sony think twice about ever making The Amazing Spider-Man 3, particularly if there's likely to be greater interest in Spider-Man 4!
This is still a strong result as it made a $1,100 average per theater.
Despite The Amazing Spider-Man not performing as well as its predecessors, Garfield remains incredibly popular. The reboot simply isn't considered a classic, and these numbers should take nothing away from what the actor brought to the table as Peter Parker. We'd expect The Amazing Spider-Man 2 to do even worse next Monday given how unpopular the sequel is.
Way back in 2012, we got to sit down with director Marc Webb to discuss the movie (side note: it was this writer's first on-camera interview and isn't great...Webb, however, was an incredibly nice guy and clearly passionate about Spidey).
"Listen, I like technical stuff. I like tinkering. I like working with people who have a technical nature and that was a really fun and exciting part of it," the filmmaker said of the experience of making The Amazing Spider-Man. "But really, at the end of the day, the access point for me was the characters. And I think Peter Parker, as we all know, I think one of the reasons that we all like Spider-Man [is] he's relatable."
"He's just this kid like any other kid and I wanted to build the movie on a foundation of simple human relationships and the small little intimate details that happen between people. And in the first part of the movie there's a lot of that. Particularly in the first half of the movie. That's really quite similar to the emotional texture of (500) Days of Summer."
"Obviously there's a lot more action and a little bit more craziness," Webb added. "We didn't have a Lizard in my last movie but that was what my access point was and what made it intuitive to do."
Did you catch The Amazing Spider-Man in theaters yesterday?