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# _The Amazing Spider-Man 2_’s Box Office Won’t Amaze Marvel

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## Richard Corliss


May 4, 2014 5:18 PM UTC

by 

[Richard Corliss](https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/)


## Richard Corliss


May 4, 2014 5:18 PM UTC

The webbed wonder is back, in _The Amazing Spider-Man 2_. The second in a proposed four Marvel Entertainment movies about Peter Parker, the teen blessed or cursed with arachnid DNA, _ASM2_ earned $92 million at the North American box office, according to preliminary estimates from Sony Pictures. It reaped a B-plus from the CinemaScore polling of early attendees (an A-minus from those younger than 25), attracting a mostly male crowd (61%) and a big share of families (33%). As the front-man for the big summer movie season, Spidey is soaring again.

But how high? $92 million sounds like a nice starting number; and it is, even for [a movie that cost at least $250 million to produce](http://www.deadline.com/2014/05/amazing-spider-man-2-box-office-opening-big-debut/) and nearly $200 million more on marketing. But amid its lofty competition — previous Marvel epics that opened this weekend — _ASM2_ is only so-so.

A rebooting, and often a retelling, of the _Spider-Man_ trilogy starring Tobey Maguire and directed by Sam Raimi, which ran from 2002 to 2007, the new series features Brit actor Andrew Garfield as Peter and luscious Emma Stone as his girlfriend Gwen Stacy, under the direction of Marc Webb. The first film in the new series, which opened two years ago on the week of July 4, earned $75 million the first three days (Tuesday to Thursday) and another $62 million that weekend. So comparisons of _ASM_ and _ASM2_ don’t really apply. The true standard for the new picture is its brethren in the Marvel movie family: the superhero movies of early May.

**(SEE:** [**Andrew Garfield gushing over Emma Stone’s rap mastery with Jimmy Fallon**](http://time.com/85751/andrew-garfield-gushes-over-emma-stones-rapping-skills/)**)**

Marvel, the world’s canniest entertainment company, definitively altered the Hollywood calendar a dozen years ago. Before then, the summer movie period began in earnest the weekend before Memorial Day, as it had for a quarter-century, ever since the May 25, 1977, opening of _Star Wars_. But on May 3, 2002, the original _Spider-Man_ made its debut and earned $114.8 million; it was the first picture to gross more than $100 million in its opening three days, and did so at on a weekend with no holiday and when kids were still in school. Suddenly, the first week in May was the ideal time to launch both an action film and the summer blockbuster season.

The following year, Marvel opened the second _X-Men_ movie, _X2: X-Men United_, to a robust $85.6 million weekend. And from 2007, every first May weekend has boasted a Marvel movie: _Spider-Man 3_ ($151.1 million), _Iron Man_ ($98.6 million), _X-Men Origins: Wolverine_ ($85.1 million), _Iron Man 2_ ($128 million), _Thor_ ($65.7 million), _The Avengers_ ($207.4 million) and, last year, _Iron Man Three_ ($174,1 million).


So, in the Marvel early-May cosmology, _ASM2_ falls below the almighty _Avengers_, which still accounts for the biggest opening weekend for any movie, the three _Iron Man_ films and the two _Spider-Man_ episodes released on this date. (_Spider-Man 2_ opened June 20, 2004, and earned $88.2 million.) The movie’s opening gross also didn’t quite match the $95 million taken in four weeks ago by _Captain America: The Winter Soldier_, which established the all-time record for a movie in the normally cruelest month of April.

**(READ: Corliss’s** [**review of** **_Captain America: The Winter Soldier_**](http://time.com/46760/captain-america-the-winter-soldier-movie-review/)**)** 

Ticket prices have risen by nearly a third since 2002, both because of inflation and for surcharges for 3-D and IMAX screenings. So the more exact comparison is in “real dollars.” And in that category, _ASM2_ is near the bottom of Marvel’s previous openings for this weekend: it beat only the two franchise-starters, _Wolverine_ and _Thor_, and sequels are supposed to open stronger than the films that birthed them.


Here are the real-dollar domestic grosses, in millions, for Marvel movies opening the first weekend of May:

_The Avengers_, 5/4/12, $207.4m (original gross) = $211.5m (real dollars)  
_Iron Man Three_, 5/3/13, $174.1m = $183.3m  
_Spider-Man 3_, 5/4/07, $151.1m = $174.8m  
_Spider-Man_, 5/3/02, $114.8m = $157.3m  
_Iron Man 2_, 5/7/10, $128.1m = $129.7m  
_X2: X-Men United_, 5/2/03, $85.6m = $113.0m  
_Iron Man_, 5/2/08, $98.6m = $109.3m  
**_The Amazing Spider-Man 2_**, $92m = $92m  
_X-Men Origins: Wolverine_, 5/1/09, $85.1m = $90.8m  
_Thor_, 5/6/11, $65.7m = $66.7m

The opening-weekend gross, even for a widely promoted action film with a familiar title and a dedicated fan base, can’t accurately predict the final revenue. _Spider-Man_, _Iron Man_ and _The Avengers_ all eventually earned at least three times the amount they took in on the first weekend, while Marvel’s _Hulk_, directed by Ang Lee and released in 2003, earned more money its first three days ($62.1 million) than in the rest of its domestic run ($60.05 million). Deciding they had gone wrong, the Marvel execs ordered up a reboot, _The Incredible Hulk_, five years later — and it earned almost exactly the same as its disgraced predecessor. But both _Hulk_ movies were released in mid-June, by which time action-film fatigue sets in with audiences deluged for six weeks by movies about muscular guys saving the world.


Make no mistake: in the movie business, it’s the worldwide box office that counts much more than the domestic figures. And in the early global stats, _The Amazing Spider-Man 2_ is doing fine. In its third week of release it has earned $277 million abroad, including a record-breaking opening in India, a nation long resistant to Hollywood films. _ASM2_ opened in China today (a work day) and earned a record $10.4 million — a terrific start for this huge and growing market. Last summer the sci-fi saga _Pacific Rim_ did bigger business in China ($111.9 million) than in North America ($101.8 million). Marvel must hope that Peter Parker can pick the People’s Republic’s pockets clean.

**(READ: Corliss’s** [**review of** **_The Amazing Spider-Man 2_**](http://time.com/81436/review-the-amazing-spider-man-2-a-web-of-missed-opportunities/%20)**)**

The company’s other entries took a while to realize their international potential. For the first two films in the original series, the foreign revenue share was just over 50%. With _Spider-Man 3_ it jumped to 62%, and the _Amazing_ reboot amassed 65% of its $752.2-million total take from overseas markets. The biggest blockbusters, like the _Harry Potter_ and _Lord of the Rings_ and _Hobbit_ franchises, typically earn about two-thirds of their worldwide gross from abroad, and so have Marvel’s recent _Thor_, _Wolverine_ and _Captain America_ sequels.


With its gaudy early foreign numbers — currently 75% of the total gross — _ASM2_ looks to do boffo business abroad. Now the movie just has to convince tens of millions of Americans that it is more than just a minor Marvel.

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