The Amazing Spider-Man Scores $50.2 Million in Asia

[WuGambino]

Sony's franchise reboot The Amazing Spider-Man doesn't open in North America until Tuesday, July 3, but over the weekend it opened internationally in 13 Asian markets and managed to gross $50.2 million in just three days.

Korea scored $13.4 million on 1,213 screens, the third-highest opening for a Hollywood movie behind the last two "Transformers" movies; it opened 24% higher than Spider-Man 3 and 10% higher than The Avengers.

Japan claimed $11.4 million on 1,092 screens, 84% of that country's weekend box office.

The $6 million the movie made in India is the biggest opening for a Hollywood film, 74% higher than Spider-Man 3, 73% higher than The Avengers.

The other Asian countries including the Phillippines, Taiwan, Hong Kong and more also showed huge openings on par with other major blockbusters.

That's a great start for the reboot that has been questioned by many fans of the comics and the Sam Raimi trilogy and it just goes to show that in many countries, it doesn't matter who is in the mask as long as it's called "Spider-Man." Even so, one can expect that the plans to produce a sequel for the summer of 2014 will continue without hesitation based on this international opening.

Sony's also celebrating this weekend because their other big summer movie based on a comic book, Men in Black 3, has reached $599.4 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing movie in that sci-fi comedy franchise.

 

[ExodusNirvana]

I don't know why fans of the comics would question this movie.

 

[PopOnCloud9]

I don't know why fans of the comics would question this movie.

Spiderman 3 left a bad taste in people's mouth, it's still fresh in our minds. So in a summer when you have the Avengers kicking off the summer movies and Dark Knight Rises finishing it off it's easy to overlook the new Spidey flick dropping in between those.

 

[The Real]

Damn, it destroyed Avengers and Dark Knight. Spider-man and Batman are easily the 2 most recognizable and loved superheroes worldwide, so this makes some sense that way, but even then, I wouldn't have expected it to easily overshadow Dark Knight.

 

[patscorpio]

im reading mixed reviews on this....myself im going after work to watch this at a private screening ..thank you gofobo.com

 

[R=G]

It was gonna draw huge no matter what but people think the new kid is gonna affect things. Who knows. Spider Man's story is always gonna be met with sympathy and fan interest.

 

[King Sun]

marvel stay winning

 

[CoolazzFemale]

Might go to the midnight showing tonight.

 

[Fillerguy]

Have you guys seen it yet? I talked to a couple of people who have and they pretty much agree with me but those people and I tend to think the same way.

 

[pete clemenza]

Whether good or bad we all knew this film was gonna do numbers... nothing to see here, move along, move along

 

[Deezay]

Have you guys seen it yet? I talked to a couple of people who have and they pretty much agree with me but those people and I tend to think the same way.

What was their analysis again?

 

[up in here]

Have you guys seen it yet? I talked to a couple of people who have and they pretty much agree with me but those people and I tend to think the same way.

yeah i know what you mean, me and my cousin were talking about it and we both agreed about how we felt about it too. and we watched it seperately but we both came away feeling the same way.

 

[Fillerguy]

What was their analysis again?

Spoiler

We said Garfield's portrayal of Peter was off. Peter was less a nerd and more of a smart loner weirdo that mops over his desk like an emo. Peter is kind of a brazen little shyt before his upgrade. He gets bullied by a dude frailer and shorter than him. If you could call that lame a bully Peter gives the audience no reason to cheer for him let alone why someone would want to date him. Uncle Ben and Aunt May are miscasted with Uncle Ben being way to preachy. He could have just said the famous line but nooooooo......

This Peter isnt a happy Peter. I wouldnt say Peter of the comics is much happier either but he hides it with humor. Dont believe the hype, Spiderman isnt giving much more witty remarks during fights than in the other flicks. Those scenes are the car theft/police chase and the Lizard encounter. Peter doesnt talk much unlike his comic counterpart. He says one sentence in 30minutes at one point.

There are scenes where a better score would have but tears in your eyes shyts weak. Particularly the bridge scene (trailer) and towards the ending where New York construction workers/police help Spiderman. Or Dennis Leary's death


CGI on Lizard's face is hit or miss but overall the CGI is ill. They show off Peter's agility and mobility with the CGI in this film much better than the previous ones (chalk it up to state of the art CGI). Web usage was on point, the ghey flashing web shooters are easy to ignore. The fight at school with the Lizard This Spiderman's web game is serious

I didnt even care for Emma I'd give it a B-. Im tempted to give it a C+ but maybe its me. Compared to the Raimi movies, the Spideman action was better but its Peter was weak.

 

[ExodusNirvana]

Spoiler

We said Garfield's portrayal of Peter was off. Peter was less a nerd and more of a smart loner weirdo that mops over his desk like an emo. Peter is kind of a brazen little shyt before his upgrade. He gets bullied by a dude frailer and shorter than him. If you could call that lame a bully Peter gives the audience no reason to cheer for him let alone why someone would want to date him. Uncle Ben and Aunt May are miscasted with Uncle Ben being way to preachy. He could have just said the famous line but nooooooo......

This Peter isnt a happy Peter. I wouldnt say Peter of the comics is much happier either but he hides it with humor. Dont believe the hype, Spiderman isnt giving much more witty remarks during fights than in the other flicks. Those scenes are the car theft/police chase and the Lizard encounter. Peter doesnt talk much unlike his comic counterpart. He says one sentence in 30minutes at one point.

There are scenes where a better score would have but tears in your eyes shyts weak. Particularly the bridge scene (trailer) and towards the ending where New York construction workers/police help Spiderman. Or Dennis Leary's death


CGI on Lizard's face is hit or miss but overall the CGI is ill. They show off Peter's agility and mobility with the CGI in this film much better than the previous ones (chalk it up to state of the art CGI). Web usage was on point, the ghey flashing web shooters are easy to ignore. The fight at school with the Lizard This Spiderman's web game is serious

I didnt even care for Emma I'd give it a B-. Im tempted to give it a C+ but maybe its me. Compared to the Raimi movies, the Spideman action was better but its Peter was weak.

How do you continuously fukk up Spider-Man....HOW?????

 

[Jesus]

Damn, it destroyed Avengers and Dark Knight. Spider-man and Batman are easily the 2 most recognizable and loved superheroes worldwide, so this makes some sense that way, but even then, I wouldn't have expected it to easily overshadow Dark Knight.