Superman Returns $21 million on Opening Day
June 29, 2006
Superman Returns posted a very respectable, but not spectacular, gross of $21,037,277 on its opening day yesterday.
That's the 8th biggest opening Wednesday in history (see chart below), and slightly less than the opening day's receipts for The War of the Worlds, which opened in the same Wednesday-before-July-4 slot last year.
It's still too early to tell how the weekend will work out, but a comparison with War of the Worlds suggests an opening weekend (Friday-Sunday) of around $65 million.
Top Wednesday Openers:
Date Film Name Daily Gross Theaters Weekend
6/30/2004
Spider-Man 2
$40,442,604
4,152
$88,156,227
12/17/2003
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
$34,450,834
3,703
$72,629,713
5/19/1999
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
$28,542,349
2,970
$64,810,970
12/18/2002
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
$26,159,972
3,622
$62,007,528
11/5/2003
Matrix Revolutions, The
$24,311,365
3,502
$48,475,154
2/25/2004
Passion of the Christ, The
$23,557,000
3,006
$83,848,082
6/29/2005
War of the Worlds, The
$21,256,483
3,908
$64,878,725
6/28/2006
Superman Returns
$21,037,277
3,915
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7/18/2001
Jurassic Park 3
$19,024,360
3,434
$50,771,645
7/3/2002
Men in Black 2
$18,599,621
3,557
$52,148,751
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