MONDAY ESTIMATES: 'Iron Man' Sets May Mark with an Estimated $6.5 million Monday!
by Steve Mason
MONDAY NIGHT: John Favreau’s Iron Man (Paramount), the first self-produced and financed film from Marvel Studios, has grabbed another $6.5 million on Monday, bringing its four-and-a-half-day cume to $108.62 million. That represents a 25 percent drop from Sunday's $26 million take, which compares favorably to last year's Spider-Man 3 (Sony) on the same Monday.
After debuting to an all-time record three-day of $151.1 million during the first weekend of May 2007, Spider-Man 3 was down 75 percent from its staggering $39.9 million Sunday, translating to a larger $10.28 million. The percentage drop for Iron Man, however, is about the same.
Every year, the summer blockbuster season begins on either the first or second Friday of May, and Iron Man has posted the all-time third-best follow-up-Monday in history, trailing only Spider-Man 3 and 2003's X2: X-Men United:
1. Spider-Man 3 (2007) — $10.28 million
2. X2: X-Men United (2003) — $6.54 million
3. Iron Man (2008) — $6.5 million (Estimated)
4. Spider-Man (2002) — $5.21 million
5. The Mummy Returns (2001) — $4.93 million
6. Van Helsing (2004) — $3.95 million
7. Gladiator (2000) — $3.75 million
8. The Mummy (1999) — $3.64 million
9. Mission: Impossible III (2006) — $3.53 million
10. Deep Impact (1998) — $3 million
Sony's Made of Honor, starring TV's Dr. McDreamy, Patrick Dempsey, added $810,000 on Monday for a new cume of $15.5 million, while Universal's Baby Mama took third. The Tina Fey/Amy Poehler holdover comedy scored an estimated $495,000 on its second Monday.
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