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As for its second week, it grossed another $72 milllion, which is even more than I guessed its opening weekend to be. With these numbers "Spider-Man" has broken another record this weekend by becoming the fastest movie ever to pass go and collect $200 million. It beat Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace's old record of fourteen days, by five days. This week's tallies brings "Spider-Man" to a nine day total of $223 million, making it the highest grossing movie of the year, thus far, beating Ice Age's $170 million. This total also makes "Spider-Man" the 29th highest grossing movie of all-time and climbing.
Don't expect "Spider_Man" to be on top next weekend. With a four-day weekend at the box office, Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones will have the jump on the competition, About a Boy and The Salton Sea with Val Kilmer. Plus with a three week old "Spider" the "Clones" should have no problem having a successful "Attack" on the box office. Although if "Spider-Man" spins his web a third time, George Lucas may no longer be able to excite us with just a spectacle of computer graphics and other world characters. He may need to hire a certain Tobey McGuire, who is also strong in "the force" lately, Star Wars Episode III, to play a Jedi kinight who can walk up walls and who has spider-like abilities. Hey anything is possible if Lucas has become so commercialized that he would cast Nsync in a "Star Wars" movie, he might also want to cash in on the "Spider-Man" craze.
As for the notion that the "Clones" can outdue "Spider-Man"s box office mayhem. I think not. "Star Wars" will open big but not that big. Although I would like to eat my words because it would be exciting to see a box office showdown. Stay tuned until next weekend.
