By Hindustan Times
Sony’s The superb Spider-Man, the superhero reboot which gave the jump to moviegoers in India, Korea, Japan and elsewhere on Friday, grossed an estimated 50.2 million dollars in 13 overseas markets this weekend. U.S.-based Spider-Man fans won’t have the ability to catch the film Stateside until midnight Tuesday on the earliest.
In India, The superb Spider-Man scored the largest opening ever for a Hollywood film, its studio said.
In Korea, the reboot bested the debut there of The Avengers.
In Japan, it accounted for just about all the country’s Saturday and Sunday ticket sales.
Most promising for The superb Spider-Man is that its international debut earned better-than-favorable comparisons to the franchise’s Tobey Maguire era.
In India and Korea, the Andrew Garfield-Emma Stone reboot outdid the respective opening weekends of Spider-Man 3.
In Vietnam, the movie outgrossed all the run of the similar sequel.
“For whatever reason, the unique][ Spider-Man trilogy never performed quite as dominantly within the international marketplace,” E!Online quoted David Mumpower of Box Office Prophets as saying in an email.
“…For The fantastic Spider-Man to launch like this internationally is a big relief for Sony,” he added.
