“The Amazing Spider-Man 2” ignited the summer blockbuster movie season with a dominating $92 million U.S. debut at No. 1 this weekend.
Sony's Marvel superhero sequel starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone was even more amazing abroad, and brought in a whopping $116 million from overseas this weekend. The $208 million weekend globally brings its total at the worldwide box office to $370 million after three weeks.
“This is a terrific opening here,” Sony's head of distribution Rory Bruer told TheWrap, “And when you put it together with the worldwide numbers, it's really stunning.”
“Everyone worked so hard on this project, starting with the cast and director, the production team, the marketing and distribution, we put everything we had into this and it's really rewarding,” said Breur. ”This is such an iconic character that you really don't want to get in its way, and I think we struck the right balance,” he added.
The domestic opening is the year's second-best, behind the $95 million April debut of another Marvel movie, Disney's “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.” It tops the $85.7 million that “Thor: The Dark World” opened to in November, and it blows away the $62 million that the first “Amazing Spider-Man” opened to in July 2012.
This weekend's opening didn't match the $114 million that the first “Spider-Man” debuted with 12 years ago, which was the first time any movie had cracked $100 million in its opening weekend. But the muscular showing by “Amazing Spider-Man 2” erases concerns about franchise fatigue and shows that Peter Parker and his alter ego remain among the heaviest hitters in the Marvel universe.
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