The amazing spider man off to healthy box office start

The first Spider-Man made over $418 million in the international market and that doesn't even bring into account ten years of inflation. I really don't see how it didn't do well in the international market. Sounds like they are just trying to tear down the old spider-man for the new one.

"Healthy" start is code for Uh-Oh, those numbers are troubling. What other movies this summer also opened in very few small markets overseas and made alot more money its first weekend? Answer- Madagascar 3, which brought in 75 million its first weekend, is still doing banging business, and won't even open in the major markets overseas until after the Olympics.

I think this movie will make a very, very decent amount of money (despite not being what I was expecting at all), both at the box office and DVD-Bluray-Streaming-TV. Most of the money from the previous incarnation of the franchise came not from the box office, but its longevity in other media... it's still selling, for crying out loud. It's a good story, but a little bit too soft and too short for my taste, and the visual effects are mostly eye candy.

They don't show in the US first any more because we are one of the only countries that can properly enforce copyright and who can still prevent mass piracy in our country. If we release in america first, a pirate can video tape in an american theater but can't sell in wide release in the united states. But they can get a pirated copy of the movie sold in other foreign markets. So to combat piracy, the studio decides to go straight to the most pirate-friendly markets first to beat the pirates at their game (as best they can). Then bring it hear where we, law-abiding american "suckers", will patiently do what we are supposed to, and pay for tickets in the theater. Because we are good people, well that and the FBI scares us.