Summer Movie Season!
May 2, 2008 by John
Today is the first ‘official’ day of the summer movie season with the opening of Iron Man. IMDB describes the movies synopsis as such:
When wealthy industrialist Tony Stark is forced to build an armored suit after a life-threatening incident, he ultimately decides to use its technology to fight against evil!
Sounds exciting! I guess…I mean we’ve had 42 super hero movies in the past 5 years, I this
one gonna be any better? Well, the critics have spoken and 93% of them are saying ‘Yes!’. Head on over to rotten tomatoes to check out that stat. It seems the movie is an all around success, which is a good thing for Marvel who is completely financing the picture with a budget at a cool 180 million US. 
Will that success translate into box office mulah? We’ll find out soon, but at least they have the comfort of knowing they will have my 8$ 
I’ll be checking this one out this afternoon and I’ll let you all know about it in a later post. I just have to check it out, with this much positive spin, it reminds me of Spiderman’s opening buzz back in 2002 when it opened (that’s Friday, Saturday and Sunday) with 114,844,116 US!!!
That seems like an impressive number, but it’s not the highest grossing summer weekend movie of all time! In fact it’s only the 7th! Can you name the other 6 summer movies that have had a bigger opening weekend? Let me tell you, I was surprised at some of them! 
#7 - Spider-Man (05/03/02) - 114,844,116 US
#6 - Spider-Man 2 (06/30/04) - $115,817,364 US
#5 - Shrek the Third (05/18/08 ) - $121,629,270 US
#4 - X-Men: The Last Stand (05/26/06) - $122,861,157 US
#3 - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (07/07/06) - $135,634,554 US
#2 - Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (05/25/07) - $139,802,190 US
#1 - Spider-Man 3 (05/04/07) - $151,116,516 US
Source: If you’re curious, check out the top 25 summer movie opening weekends of all time at Moviephone!
