Los Angeles: The new Spider-Man climbed to the top of movie box office charts with weekend sales of $65 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales, a smashing debut for the reinvented franchise about a web-slinging superhero.
The Amazing Spider-Man, starring Andrew Garfield in the role played by Tobey Maguire in three earlier installments, started strong with $7.5 million in midnight sales on July 3 and remained so through the U.S. Independence Day holiday and the weekend. The 3D film has so far snared $140 million during its domestic run, distributor Sony Pictures said.
The film has generated $341.2 million overall, including $201.6 million in the 70 foreign markets in which it has opened. Of its worldwide total, more than $24 million has come from showings in IMAX wide-screen theatres, according to Imax. Earlier in the week, Sony had forecast domestic ticket sales of $130 million for the first six days.
The movie reboots the modern film series that began with 2002's Spider-Man and whose three movies netted around $2.5 billion at global box offices for its makers, Marvel Studios and distributor Sony Pictures....
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05:38 PM, Jul 09, 2012
London: The Amazing Spider Man star Andrew Garfield has been appointed as an ambassador for the Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO). Garfield, 28, who plays orphaned Peter Parker in the superhero reboot, visited parent less kids in Ethiopia and Haiti with the organisation earlier this year, reported Contactmusic. Garfield and his real-life girlfriend and co-star Emma Stone turned out to support founder Dr Jane Aronson at a charity party for the...
08:36 PM, Jul 01, 2012
He's been in comics, cartoons, on TV and in movies, but when Spider-Man swings into theaters next week for new film 'The Amazing Spider-Man,' its makers bring out a more brooding and human web-slinger than fans have seen before. Director Marc Webb, known for low-budget film romance '500 Days of Summer,' explores not just the origin of how Peter Parker becomes crime-fighting superhero Spider-Man. He and the writers craft a...
03:47 PM, Jun 30, 2012
New York: On a weekend in January of 2010, Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios pivoted faster than even Spider-Man would dare. A fourth installment of the hugely popular Spider-Man franchise was planned, with director Sam Raimi and star Tobey Maguire returning to their trilogy of films that had earned more than $2.5 billion at the global box office and generally been hailed as a standard-bearer in big-screen comic book adaptations....
04:54 PM, Jun 28, 2012
New York: Marvel Comics revealed on Tuesday that the heir to the Spider-Man costume following the death of Peter Parker will be Miles Morales, a teenager of half-Hispanic and half-black origin who will protect New York from the bad guys starting Wednesday, when "Ultimate Comics Fallout #4" hits the magazine racks. "When the opportunity arose to create a new Spider-Man, we knew it had to be a character that represents...
02:04 PM, Aug 03, 2011
New Delhi: The movie trailer for the latest Spider-Man film - 'The Amazing Spider-Man', leaked from Sony Studios on Tuesday, days before it was supposed to debut at the worlds largest comic book convention. The movie marks the return of the web-shooting super hero after a gap of three years. The earlier movies had Toby Maguire in the role of Spider-Man. The new adaptation is to release in July 2012....
05:14 PM, Jul 20, 2011
Philadelphia: A new look and a new suit are in store for Ultimate Spider-Man, but the fate of Peter Parker - the awkward teenager who catches thieves like flies - is still a mystery. Marvel Comics said Monday that Parker is taking off the Spidey costume for good as part of its "Death of Spider-Man" story in its Ultimate Comics imprint, but it has offered scant clues as to what...
10:55 AM, Apr 19, 2011
