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EXCLUSIVE… UPDATE: Sources are telling me that Sony Pictures‘ The Amazing Spider-Man swept the Asian box office this weekend as the much-anticipated actioner opened early in a handful of international territories. The reboot of Marvel‘s most popular character will be released July 3rd in the U.S./Canada where rival studios report the tracking has been flat. ”It’s off to a fantastic start overseas,” an insider gushes to me. Here are the updated numbers from Sony Pictures:
In its first weekend of release, The Amazing Spider-Man grossed an estimated $50.2 million in 13 overseas markets in Asia while Europe remains under the influence of the Euro Cup football championships until tonight, with school vacations in full effect starting tomorrow.
KOREA earned $13.4M on 1,213 screens, capturing a 71% market share. The KW15.8B total for Thursday to Sunday is the 3rd biggest of all time for a Hollywood film, behind only the 2nd and 3rd Transformers films. This is 24% bigger than Spider-Man 3 and 10% more than Avengers.
JAPAN opened with $11.4M on 1,092 screens, pulling in an estimated 84% of the country’s Saturday-Sunday weekend box office.
INDIA grossed $6.0M on 1,236 screens, the biggest opening ever for a Hollywood film, 74% bigger than Spider-Man 3, 73% more than Avengers, and more than double the lifetime box office of The Dark Knight.
The PHILIPPINES bowed with $3.2M on 529 screens, capturing the entire market in its opening weekend. This is the 4th biggest Friday-Sunday opening ever (behind Avengers, Transformers 3, and Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1.)
TAIWAN did $2.9M on 268 screens while taking in 73% of the market’s weekend total. It is the 2nd biggest Fri-Sun weekend of the year (behind Avengers.)
HONG KONG earned $2.7M on 158 screens, pulling in 84% of the total market. This is the 4th biggest Friday-Sunday opening of all time.
SINGAPORE grossed $2.5M on 128 screens, the 3rd biggest Friday-Sunday opening of all time.
THAILAND opened to $1.9M on 320 screens, capturing 81% of the market. 10th biggest Friday-Sunday opening of all time.
VIETNAM grossed $425K on 41 screens, the 6th biggest Friday-Sunday opening of all time (and the 5th biggest Hollywood film.) It surpassed the lifetime box office total of Spider-Man 3.
In Europe, GERMANY grossed an estimated $4.2M on 755 screens (50% market share), HOLLAND earned $850K on 113 ,AUSTRIA opened to $480K on 85, and SWITZERLAND did $290K on 130.
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this movie is stunning…. in india, crowds are going crazzzzzzzyyyyyyy
Yeah that’s true. No tickets available! Booked solid.
thanks for reminding me…need to water the plants.
I don’t know a single person who is excited to see this movie. I wonder how it does in the US.
Maybe you need to know more people. It’s the exact opposite for me.
It’s ok, I don’t know a single person who wants to know you.
I bet they opened in Asia in the way they did so the story leading up to the open in the States would be bg box office. But it’s gonna do Battleship business I bet here. Btw, saw Ted tonight and it’s hilarious.
People in Asia will line up around the block to watch two hours of a guy getting hit in the crotch with a football as long as it’s a big Hollywood picture. I say Battleship business as well, Spidey’s been there, done that.
Come on now man, this doing Battleship buisness here in the states, don’t be silly, we are still talking about Spidey here, i know you’re smarter than that. Now how big of a hit this will be in America i’m not sure, what i do know is it will do far greater numbers than Battleship’s 65 million domestic, you’re high if you thinking that, you and that Mike Teevee dude, both of you are nuts for even thinking of something so rediculous.
Hmm, good analogy. Opening strong overseas first doesn’t mean anything for domestic BO, but it’s possible that Battleship’s foreign BO was helped by not having the domestic audience ragging on it online too soon.
The Avengers didn’t follow that pattern simply because it was a movie domestic audiences wanted to see.
yeah, same here..
no way this does as good as the avengers….
You’re right about, no film will top The Avengers at the box office this year, i think any rational thinking person by now realizes that. I think the REAL interesting question is what film will be the no.2 grosser overseas this summer, will it be TASM, Madagascar 3, TDKR, Brave or Ice Age 4, because those 5 films are all in the running for the no.2 spot overseas in my opinion.
Hi, my name is Micah.
Now you know at least one person.
I believe the Sam Rami Spider-man films did well in Asia, so not surprised this one does as well. Also, the cinemas in India & other parts of the developing world have changed dramatically since the Rami films were released, so this version doesn’t seem like the cheap money grab that it is.
I’m with the poster above and do not know anyone (including my 12 & 14 year old nephews) who is the least bit interested in seeing this film. Reviews have been bad, but I’m sure Sony will convince quite a few morons to spend $15+ to see this over the next week before it gets crushed by TDKR.
I almost believed you till I read the last line. You are yet another stupid TDK fanboy. I have seen a lot of those lately trying to put down The Avengers. 79% on Rotten Tomatoes doesn’t mean Bad. It means good not great. BTW, Avengers didn’t need a re-release to push it over the Billion Dollar mark.
I saw The Amazing Spider Man and it is an awesome movie. The story was good. The acting was great. The special effects especially 3D effects are really well done. I suggest you get off your hate wagon and hitch a ride to watch this great superhero movie.
He’s a “stupid Batman fanboy” because he believes TDKR will make more than a Spider-Man reboot released five years after one of the most widely-derided films in recent memory? I’ll give Sony credit for stepping up with their marketing campaign, as it appears Marc Webb has really tried to direct a quality film, but I don’t believe this is going to be a monster. Maybe I’m wrong; most of my theaters are putting it on four screens, so the confidence is there, but I think this will be more MIB3 than The Avengers.
Either way, TDKR will definitely preponderate this film, at least on opening weekend. The only way it won’t squash it in the long run is if TDKR is another Spider-Man 3.
Truthteller? Really? Have you ever even been to India? Many of the cinemas in metropolitan cities like Mumbai were the quality of Arclight cinemas here 4 or 5 decades ago … Plush wide seating, ample leg space, reserved seating, advance booking, wide screens, stadium style, and you can even order hot food which they’ll bring to your seat when it’s ready, which Arclight still doesn’t do after 10 years of existence. Rename yourself opinionteller.
Same here, I guess we know the same people. Too many comic book movies, can’t bother with them all…
thats not saying much, unless u know 5 million people
I agree with the post above. I too don’t know anyone who’s actually excited about this
I saw an advanced screening of The Amazing Spider-man here in Toronto, Canada. This movie is spectacular! After the first five minutes of the movie I turned to my buddy and said “This is already better than all three Sam Raimi Spidey flicks. And he isn’t even Spider-man yet.”
I think it’s going to do really well here in North America.
Studio Plant Adam is obvious plant. So, Adam, five minutes into the new Spider Man movie and you turned to your buddy and said “Wow, buddy, this Spider Man movie is most certainly ALREADY better than ALL of the previous Spider Man movies!” Yah, right.
Nobody I know is interested at all in seeing this movie. It looks like a small movie, not like a summer blockbuster.
Sure, parents will take their kids to see it on opening weekend, but I doubt it will have much repeat business, and then yes, it will be utterly obliterated by The Dark Knight. Not a fanboy assertion, but an obvious fact.
^^ This guy’s a plant. I’ve seen the movie. (SLIGHT SPOILERS AHEAD) First five minutes have no action, just a flashback to boyhood Peter Parker then a little bit of him being unpopular in high school.
Movie’s OK, nothing special. Takes over an hour for anything to happen, and action scenes are too brief and too rushed. Don’t think Marc Webb is good at directing action, so he spends all his time on quiet character scenes. Which are nice, but this is Spiderman, guys, not The Notebook!
Garfield & Stone are good actors with good chemistry, whole cast is fine in fact. Nothing really terrible about the movie, just a big “eh”. Romantic angle might attract more females than your ordinary superhero flick.
Na its The Amazing Spider-man, The Spectacular Spider-man is the reboot after this one.
I am. I’ll pretty much see a Spider-Man movie in any incarnation, as he’s a formative hero for me. Also, love Emma Stone, imo, the Sony franchise really hit the jackpot when they cast her.
And these days, it’s the world market that counts, not just the measly old USA. AMAZING will be a hit, warranting a couple sequels. Wonder if they’ll have the balls to kill off Gwen at the end of part 2?
The box office collection of amazing spider is bigger than you expected here in india. It will Open $10M.+ Here They Collected 8.5 Crore ($4.5M.) first day collection
8.5 crore is not 4.5 M$. It only about 1.5-1.6 M$.
As Taylor Kitsch knows far too well, a movie’s foreign performance is no safe indicator as to how it will do in the US.
not…tracking…..that….great…..here in the states
-RnsW
“tracking” for those of you who don’t know is basically a survey that says how a movie will do.. And its extremely accurate.. And Robert is correct.. This movie is in the shitter right now.. Its all about Batman and the Avengers..
But didn’t you hear? The rehash is beating Avengers numbers in two foreign markets. We don’t have to come up with new stories anymore. Rehash works.
Rehash works overseas, but domestically, the jury is way out. I’ve seen this pattern happen over and over, not just for Battleship: a movie can go great overseas and still tank domestically.
One reason could be that Americans simply know more about these movies than overseas. Americans know Battleship is a stupid board game. Americans know that we’ve already seen Spider-Man, thank you very much (and may also know that this new movie exists solely so that its corporate owners can hang onto the movie rights). That engenders a certain amount of contempt among Americans that is not a factor overseas.
As I said above, I’ll see pretty much any incarnation of Spidey, as he was a formative hero growing up. But speaking of rehashes, it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if Bsrbara Broccoli and company decide to rehash ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE as the followup to SKYFALL. As a fanboy, I’ve got mixed feelings about that.
Yeah i hear you, i expect Spidey to do big numbers overseas, not AVENGERS numbers but still big.
This movie will be deluxe.
Everybody knows that.
Most people are wondering if they will see it twice or three times.
He was the missing piece of The Avengers.
It’s time to get web slinging. And with 17 days before Dark Knight it will amass over 200 million.
Earn that plant money. Justify that studio paycheck, Bear.
If Spidey only does 200 mil before Dark knight, that is a DISASTER my friend.. Between production and marketing Sony is in for over 350 million.. Ad they are nervous as hell
As a longtime Avengers fan (comic books), I can state conclusively that The Avengers always did just fine without Spidey around, in the comics and now in the movies.
Also, the rights situation precludes a crossover.
Doesn’t it also have the widest opening for any US film in India as well? I would think that goes hand in hand
You can open wide, but there have to be some asses on seats.
Not to mention a well liked famous albeit talented indian actor is inside!
Yes, that’s true. It would be hard for it not to break some kind of record there.
My most anticipated movie of the Summer. I don’t have just the ticket for the midnight opening, I have freaking flight tickets so I can see this in all glorious IMAX 3D. I always knew that this would be huge. Getting reviews and word of mouth as the best Spider-Man film yet is only helping what it was obvious: Spider-Man is one of the greatest franchises of all time, one of the greatest superheroes of all time and my favorite character in fiction period, bare none.
For those thinking that “no one wants to see this”, brace yourselves. This will end up hitting hard and surprising a hell lot of people just like The Avengers did. Not as big, but I’m sure that people will be amazed at what The Amazing Spider-Man will be doing at the box office this week.
I loved Raimi’s trilogy, I’m one of the few who actually liked SPIDER-MAN 3 – thought it was dark and fun and kept with Raimi’s humor… I like Andrew Garfield and love Emma Stone, and like that Brit dude who plays the bad guy – all great actors. And I loved 500 DAYS OF SUMMER, so Marc Webb is solid…
But I have absolutely no interest in seeing THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, at least in the theater. I’ll maybe catch on DVD or wait for Netflix streaming.
Too soon.
Are we ready to reboot the Batman franchise next year?
Wow. I’ve read this post on several websites after lukewarm Spider Man reviews about how you not only have a ticket, but bought a “flight ticket” to fly somewhere to see the movie. Try some different schtick. Taking a boat to see the movie might be more romantic or perhaps a hot air balloon? Mix it up a little bit plant. You’re getting good money for these posts I hope!
I’m a Spider-Man fan. Just like most here complaining the fuck out of this film are ALL Batman fans hoping that this film will flop, just like people did with The Avengers before. I am happy that the film I’m most anticipating is getting great box office numbers because that means that a sequel will be made, and I MORE than welcome that and reboots for films that I feel don’t do the original material justice.
Take Nolan’s Batman for example. I love Batman Begins, can’t stand TDK and I’m pretty underwhelmed by everything I’ve seen about that film so far. I’m looking forward for the reboot of that thing, just like I’m looking forward to Man of Steel, a reboot of one of the first superhero characters that I’ve got in contact with, together with Spider-Man and Batman. I don’t understand the rationale of Nolan’s fans, and why they care so much about records and trying to crush The Avengers records, ALL I WANT is THREE brilliant films based on comic book characters. What you guys do instead? Go online from website to website, COMPLANING THE FUCK OUT OF THIS FILM, because it isn’t your precious Dark Knight, just like you’ve done with The Avengers before. Tell me how that worked out for you.
I think the box office figures and 4 star reviews will quash your doubts quite nicely.
Wow. That’s quite an endorsement. About all I can think of is well Emma Stone is really pretty.
I am disappointed. Here in the States, I don’t get the sense the movie is generating the kind of excitement that other films this summer are. Despite all the trailers I’ve seen of this new film, it feels like something is missing. The magic isn’t there.
I’d like to see Spidey go back to Marvel. Think of the possibilities of having Spider-Man interact with Tony Stark, Thor, Captain America, Bruce Banner, and the rest of the Marvel Universe. It’s how it should be.
Right. The magic just isn’t there. I remember how we all were exited even in trailers for Toby’s Spider. That was fun experience. The way he was flying, fighting, even James Franco looked good as Harry Osborn. Before he was overrated and full of himself – he was charming as Harry.
Now they tried to be “dark” and serious and relaunch movie like Batman Begins did. But it still looks the same. Same story, same character. Only everything around looks dark. And not in a good way. You just want to turn on the lights. It doesn’t look different otherwise.
And I feel like Andrew Garfield was miscast. It looked good on the paper and we were all exited when he was cast. But since the first trailer arrived you can see that he just can’t deliver as Peter Parker. He jokes because script tells him to. But otherwise that is just not Spider-Man. Andrew Garfield was not made for blockbusters. He can look good as supporting actor. He is not lead actor that can carry a movie on his shoulders.
And I like Emma in comedy. But she doesn’t look convincing in drama roles. She is good comedy actress but she is not good drama actress. She wasn’t spectacular or interesting in Help. She was just there, while Viola and Octavia worked for their Oscar nominations. Emma looks weak as “girlfriend” here too.
That’s why Spider-Man is tracking bad in USA. Two lead actors were miscast. And public don’t care about them in new movie.
Those rights won’t go back to Marvel as long as Sony can still wring out a single cent of profit in the most circumvential, tax-write-off way out of this franchise. Or have the hope that five years down the line it will give them that single cent profit.
If Marvel wants the character in The Avengers, they would have to collaborate with Sony, not wait for Sony to just hand them over one of the most lucrative franchise in movie history. Because that’s not gonna happen.
Apparently it has a good shot of happening, Sony gave permission for the Avengers to feature the Oscorp(?) building on their NY skyline.
(although time constraints stopped it featuring) I think both companies will be willing to pool cost and profit for Avengers 2.
YES! All the Marvel characters should be under Marvel’s creative control. They really know what they’re doing. Send Spidey home, and The X-Men too.
I’ve posted my prediction over the boxoffice boards, but I’ll do it here too: I see this making between $165m-$200m FIRST SIX DAYS ALONE domestically. The floor for this domestically I see it as $325m, but I think it’s very likely that this will be the first reboot to ever cross the $400m barrier domestically.
July will be insane.
I agree with you 100%. I don’t think the “experts” have this one called right. The weekend exploded with two R rated films over performing in a HUGE way. SPIDERMAN opens on Tuesday, Holiday on Weds., people taking off work the rest of the week, VERY HOT weather driving people to the cinemas – and one new movie the whole family can go see – which is actually getting solid reviews. It’s going to fly past $200 mil in the first 6 days.
Not gonna happen. No one in my scope of friends, who are movie goers feel they need to see this movie. Now TDKR is definitely one I want to see in the theaters.
Oh I would hate to see Spiderman end up in The Avengers universe. Ditto X-Men. Some divorces are for the best rather than a fanwank orgy of connect the dots. And he wasn’t missed from The Avengers. Not even a little bit.
Remember, what works in comic/book etc form doesn’t always need to be literally translated to screen.
Anyways, not the least interested in Spidey but I’m sure with July 3/4 to itself it’ll pull in the dough before TDKR starts.
This guy/gal gets it. An abundance of Marvel characters in a “crossover” film may be desired by comic geeks, but movie audiences would see it as overkill. And as film execs know, opinions of the movie audiences matter more than those of the comic fans.
Just because Avengers made 1.5 billion doesn’t mean Marvel’s future movies won’t suck. Favreau, Downey, Branagh, Hemsworth, Johnston, Evans, Whedon, Johansson, Renner, Ruffalo and even Edward Norton gave that franchise its legitimacy. Real dramatists breathing life into 2-D source material.
Rumor is that the next phase of Avengers movies will include a Guardians of the Galaxy film. A team with a talking raccoon. Way to shoot yourselves in the foot, Marvel.
Is Seth MacFarlane directing that one? Then maybe there’s hope.
Yeah, i was looking for Marvel to push the envolope and do a BLACK PANTHER film like they should do. As long as BP is that 6th film in Phase 2 i’m cool with GOTG getiing done, but if they pushed BP out of the way in favor of doing “Guardians”, than i would pissed to no end at Marvel. If you go to generally any comic book movie forums the BLACK PANTHER seems to be a lot of people’s top choice for Marvel’s next unannounced movie, if Marvel is foolih enough to pass on doing a film on BP than apparently they don’t have they’re ears to the street like i had hoped.
Good for them. I say enjoy it while it lasts.
Just remember: John Carter and Battleship both had huge foreign openings.
Here in the states, the Total Recall remake is tracking better than this film. Think about that for a moment. Let it sink in.
Yeah. Scary, huh?
Wow! Tracking must be an accurate science. Let me check, tracking said that Ted would do around high 20′s to Low 30′s. It missed the mark by almost 100%. So enough with the Tracking is bad BS.
Also, Battleship & John Carter didn’t break any records anywhere. They opened in 80-90% of the foreign markets and scoree those numbers. TASM has opened only in a few Asian markets that too the smaller ones (except Japan). There is still Europe, Latin America, and China to open. This movie will make $500M easily from International market.
What, you need more convincing? Okie doke.
So the studio plants are hyping how Spidey is beating The Avengers “in some markets.” That’s all well and good, were it not for the fact Ice Age 4 is DESTROYING Spidey overall this weekend, 74 million to Spidey’s 50.2 mil.
Think about that, Keere. An uninspired animated fourquel with less than half it’s ad budget just handed TAS it’s damn proverbial hat. Of course they are trying to spin this by making hay out of the fact it outperformed The Avengers in some markets, it’s a smoke screen to cover up the fact the suits are going to spend the holiday week drowning in their own sweat.
I don’t think it’s fair to compare this film to Ted. Yes, Ted was underestimated, but it just barely qualifies as a blockbuster. Ted also has a more capricious demo; R-rated comedies are unpredictable, but Spidey is a four-quadrant, broadly-appealing film. Spidey will probably make $100m Tue-Sun, but I don’t think it will hold up particularly well, what with Ice Age hooking families and TDKR being bolstered by the superior marketing campaign (fact).
We talk a lot about Batman fanboys and Avengers fanboys, but what about the fanboys who are, for whatever reason, strangely desperate for this film to become a universal success, especially when it hasn’t even been seen by most people?
You’re right, tracking is not always accurate. Like you said they we’re off with TED missing by 20-25 million, they also predicted 40-45 million for BATTLESHIP and we see how those geniuses did there. Hell they missed pretty damn bad on the AVENGERS, they we’re all predicting 155-175 million, and we all know how that played out as well. Tracking misses quite a bit, they over predict and under predict, and they miss sometimes just like everyone else. What tracking can’t account for is walk up buisness, no one can predict that because you just don’t know how many people will show up and buy tickets physically in person. Everyone does’nt go online and buy tickets early, as hard as it may be for some people to believe, a lot of moviegoers still purchase movie tickets the old fashioned way.
Yeah i hear you, however John Carter & Battleship is not Spidey,this film is a beast of a different nature. And i can assure you that TASM will flop like those films in the states, which you should already know.
Also, as a true Marvel and Spider-Man fan, I don’t want The Amazing Spider-Man to fail so it could go back to Marvel/Disney staple. What I want to happen is an agreement over the use of The Amazing Spider-Man in The Avengers and whitin the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and that’s something that is quite possible, both Disney and Sony could generate a hell lot of profit of that. Besides that, we’ve reviews that keep saying that this is the best Spider-Man film yet and even the mixed reviews praise Andrew Garfield as THE Spider-Man/Peter Parker. I don’t want just a trilogy out of this, give a sixtology already. And Spidey in Avengers 2 with an epic scene where Spidey and Iron Man wisecrack the fuck out of each other.
PS: I don’t want him as an Avengers member, but helping them, just like the comics in the beginning.
Right. Spidey is NOT one of the Avengers! But he should be in the same universe as the Avengers and able to show up when warranted.
Ditto for The X-Men, even The Fantastic Four. Get all the kids in the same playpen!
You guys are dorks.
Saw the movie sat night imax viewshow cinemas In Taipei, theather was half empty. Will do same buiseness as john carter or battleship.
I saw this last Friday (in the Philippines) and the theatres where packed, despite it occupying nearly all screens. I think it won’t be as big as The Avengers, but this will make $200M in the US quite easily.
it might be very popular in India because of Irrfan Khan…, but anyway
it also has a “curse” of Emma Stone, every movie she’s in for the last 5 years becomes a HIT. This actress is on her track to be bigger than Julia Roberts was back in her day. Sony had a very right marketing compaign here: choose extremely likable actors, director praised for his characters interactions and you’ll get the controvercy with strong inclination into positivity (any fool would know from the beginnig that debate about rebooting too early is inevitable, the task was to use it).
Yes, I believe that this movie’s success will be more moderate comparing to the Avengers and might even ride mostly on its huge international wave, but I also believe that the real goal here is TASM 2 which is coming out in May 2014. We are looking at the new Batman trilogy formula here, and should expect the second film to get all the money and praise and even more…
I’m a comic book geek and I keep forgetting that this movie exists. Even with the odd trailer making the rounds, I don’t even see this thing being discussed on high traffic comic book discussion boards like CBR. Comic movie discussions go from Avengers straight to the Dark Knight Rises. Maybe the general public is still interested, but not comic book readers.
Gosh, the Avengers is just a glorified version of Transformers 3
Although a little annoying when the movie is presented as same size blockbuster as Titanic, Avatar or Star Wars
Titanic sold 128 million tickets to reach 600M in 1998
Avengers sold 70 million tickets to reach 600M in 2012
96% on Rotten Tomatoes and 86% on IMDB
It seems the audience is getting dumber
“It seems the audience is getting dumber.”
No, it’s just you.
BTW, The Avengers will end up selling about 160 million tickets WW. That’s what’s called a “blockbuster”. And only BatNerds think it’s equivalent to Transformers. It’s actually the anti-Transformers film, to anyone with any discernment.
“And only BatNerds think it’s equivalent to Transformers.” So A.O. Scott’s a Batnerd, then?
It’s just you who’s getting dumber, because the AVENGERS was epic and a great film. Listen to this clown comparing this to Transformers 3, kids this is what it sounds like when your brain is on drugs.
My excitement for ASM is as high as for a root canal. Which means none at all. It’s gonna do ok domestic but nothing spectacular. Sick of these reboots.
I’ve already seen the Amazing Spiderman, I’m from Asia. What I like about this new version of Spiderman is that it’s very detailed i.e. family. I like that he still had a backpack while he was in Spiderman suit and *spoiler* plays game while waiting his enemy hahaha.
Saw this too. I love Stan Lee’s appearance in this movie very funny
The new dark Knight film is the one everyone I know wants to see. Spidey . not so much . The trailers look blah. and the to me the lead looks like he needs to eat .
this will be killed off by The dark night rises in box office so it better do its business early.
Spider-Man is just riding the coat-tails of The Avengers. People think because it’s a Marvel superhero it must be as good. No excitement here for this one. This is just another Battleship in North America. Once TDKR debuts, TASM will be crushed!
Man why do people keep saying this will be “Battleship” in America. Let me ask you this dude, about how much do you see this doing in America, tell me before it opens so i can see how far youend up being off.
Film’s opening gross does not indicate how the total gross would be…how it does good. I’ve seen it and its just okay.