1 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith Fox $50,013,859 3,661 $13,661 Th 5/19/05 - What are your feelings on SW 17 Million from a Days worth of Midnight shows and the lowest days BO of 33 Million

2 Shrek 2 DW $44,797,042 4,163 $10,761 Sa 5/22/04 - Massive one Day Opening with all of those theaters

3 Spider-Man Sony $43,622,264 3,615 $12,067 Sa 5/04/02 - A Great One Day Average

4 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith Fox $40,900,000 3,661 $11,172 Sa 5/21/05 - Is this really the Best Star Wars Day

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ROTS Opening Day.

Because it happened on a non-summer weekday, weekend or the holiday period.

OK, that's a good point.

I just wish that SW would have broken another daily record.

Maybe it can get the 12 Million one on Tuesday?

Revenge of the Sith. It set the record for biggest day on a school day...

I still think Shrek 2's $44 million day is the most amazing. I think everyone was pretty much expecting $44+ million for ROTS, but Shrek 2....

And Shrek 2 made all that in a very short time period. I still don't know how it managed to make that much.

ROTS' day is still great, so don't get me wrong.

ROTS day was amazing, but somewhat expected.

I think the most amazing was Spidermans opening day, and even better, its second day. It was something really, really unheard of at the time.

May 19th 2005 was the best boxoffice day....EVER! $48-$51 mill O_o COME ON!
2nd best day was May 16th 2003 when an R o_0 rated movie opened with $37(42m) mill.

Again, no offense but as Sith need another days worth of Midnight Shows, I would have liked for them to have gotten another daily record during the weekend.

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FRIDAYS Spider-Man $39,406,872
SATURDAYS Shrek 2 $44,797,042
SUNDAYS Shrek 2 $34,900,541
MONDAYS Spider-Man 2 $27,661,137
TUESDAYS Meet the Fockers $12,629,620
WEDNESDAYS Spider-Man 2 $40,442,604
THURSDAYS REVENGE OF THE SITH - 50 MILLION > 17 + 33

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Guess the final vote will be where it ends up on the Domestic and WW lists

1 Titanic Par. $600,788,188 1997
2 Star Wars Fox $460,998,007 1977
3 Shrek 2 DW $441,226,247 2004
4 E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial Uni. $435,110,554 1982
5 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace Fox $431,088,301 1999
6 Spider-Man Sony $403,706,375 2002
7 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King NL $377,027,325 2003
8 Spider-Man 2 Sony $373,585,825 2004
9 The Passion of the Christ NM $370,782,930 2004
10 Jurassic Park Uni. $357,067,947 1993

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We're all aware that Spider-Man had midnight shows, correct? Midnight shows happen on the day of release, so they should count towards the gross.

Your logic is flawed.

It's foolish to think that if Sith had no midnight showings, it would have made only $33 million on Thursday - not likely that all of the die-hards who went at midnight would not have gone during the day.

Midnight shows are part of any blockbuster's opening day, and - since they start at 12:01 AM - they are still part of that day, technically. Sith is no different from any other blockbuster, so it's stupid to detract it's midnight shows when you don't do the same to Spider-Man or others.

Goldie, are you aware that a day is from 12:00AM until 11:59PM? Sith's midnight showings were technically on the same day.

Yes I am aware that it is all in the same day as per I said it made the 50 Million.

And the others don't have MIdnight Shows as they are on Saturday.

I just think that the Midnight Shows streched the number to 50 Million with some theaters having between 5 and 20 showing ( or an extra days worth of showings ) at MIdnight. It was almost like combining 2 days into 1.

I am just very disappointed that SW didn't get another day's win over the weekend.

That would have shown that it had a great opening.

Now we have to wait and see its staying power is on what its grosses are.

bump - let's see if SW can get the easiest Tuesday record.

Then we can hold judgmeent until the final numbers.

or

with this start it better go 400 +.

or

maybe beating Spidey's 403.

Because clearly getting $158m in four days isn't enough to show that it had a great opening.

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Spider-man's in my opinion. It shocked everyone with the huge opening day, and then shocked us even more when it increased so healthily into Saturday. That is absolutely insane, when it opened ON the FRIDAY. Most blockbusters decrease if having opened on friday.

Shrek 2's is also memorable in a way because everyone yelled "doomed!" after the small wednesday and thursday numbers, not realizing that the weekend numbers would be so bloody huge! It was a big shocker for most.

PEACE, Mike

With the amount of Midnight shows it had - with some theaters having a days worth of extra showings - I would bet the above average is closer to 5, not 4, days.

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Star Wars: Episode 3's $50m opening day!

Hopefully it will get the Tuesday record at 12 Million