While the advance reviews have been terrible, audiences are finding a lot to like about Amazing Spider-Man 2 as that chatter has largely been positive, enough so that it did $92 million this weekend domestically with another $116 million overseas, which since it opened early brings its worldwide take to $369 million already. It’s interesting to see that the film is getting called out for franchise fatigue since it didn’t do as well as the 2002 installment for example, but it did $30 million better than the first Amazing Spider-Man back in 2012 so that’s definitely a positive there in addition to the growing worldwide appeal where the stars did a lot of groundwork while also drawing in some record numbers, particularly in India where the film opened with the best a Hollywood film ever has at $16 million. Of course, it opened a few million less than Captain America: The Winter Soldier, so it’s getting a whole lot of grief for that.
Cap continues to do well in the month since its release as it’s now added another $7 million to its domestic coffers for a total of $237 million there and $679 million worldwide. It’s also helping to slowly raise the boat on the TV series Agents of SHIELD as well, though not as much as I’m sure ABC would like.
And for context, while I enjoyed the Raimi Spidey movies, I am not enamored with them. I long felt Maguire was the wrong choice for it and I disliked some of the changes made to it as well, especially going with MJ for such a big part and having no Gwen acknowledgements. It was also early in the comic book movie boom so I got it. Similarly, I’m not much of a fan of X-Men or X-Men 2 but really loved First Class. Those original films are what helped launch everything but I always felt like a grudging fan of it simply because we were getting decent comic book movies.
| RANK | TITLE | DISTRIBUTOR NAME | WEEKEND REVENUE | CUME REVENUE | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| REVENUE | # OF LOCATIONS* | LOC AVG | ||||
| 1 | Amazing Spider-Man 2, The | Sony | $92,000,000 | 4,324 | 21,276 | $92,000,000 |
| 2 | Other Woman, The | 20th Century Fox | $14,200,000 | 3,238 | 4,385 | $47,345,472 |
| 3 | Heaven Is For Real | Sony | $8,700,000 | 2,930 | 2,969 | $65,602,409 |
| 4 | Captain America: The Winter Soldier | Disney | $7,762,000 | 3,179 | 2,441 | $237,143,000 |
| 5 | Rio 2 | 20th Century Fox | $7,600,000 | 3,314 | 2,293 | $106,470,276 |
| 6 | Brick Mansions | Relativity Media | $3,545,000 | 2,647 | 1,339 | $15,482,316 |
| 7 | Divergent | Lionsgate | $2,175,000 | 1,639 | 1,327 | $142,661,726 |
| 8 | Quiet Ones, The | Lionsgate | $2,000,000 | 2,027 | 986 | $6,761,032 |
| 9 | God’s Not Dead | Freestyle Releasing | $1,768,612 | 1,330 | 1,329 | $55,564,014 |
| 10 | Grand Budapest Hotel, The | Fox Searchlight | $1,735,000 | 884 | 1,962 | $51,506,432 |
| 11 | Bears | Disney | $1,623,000 | 1,790 | 906 | $14,279,000 |
| 12 | Draft Day | Lionsgate | $1,425,000 | 1,354 | 1,052 | $26,468,767 |