Spider-Man v. Pirates at the box office: There can be only one record holder, but many records to hold
Sony Pictures Entertainment is duking it out with Walt Disney Co. over which movie now hold the record for biggest world-wide gross in in six days. Sony says its movie Spider-Man 3 is the record holder, while Disney insists its irates of the Caribbean: At World’s End is the new title holder. The former movie brought in $382 million, while thelatter reportedly took in $404 million. However, as the Los Angeles Times reports, Sony argues that Pirates’ six-day total includes receipts from early screenings in France and Italy, thus making the movie’s six-day total a seven-day total.
Disney dismisses Sony’s claim that those early showings siginificantly added to the six day total.
Spider-Man 3 still holds the U.S. box office record for an opening weekend.