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Spider-Man 3 has grossed an estimated $59 million on its opening day including a record number of sold out Thursday midnight screenings, estimated to have brought in $10 million of that amount. Deadline Hollywood reports that the third installment of Sony's blockbuster franchise grossed $104 million worldwide yesterday making May 4, 2007 the highest single day gross in box office history.

That opening gross is compared to the $40 opening day for Spider-Man 2, which opened on a Wednesday in 2004, and the $43.6 million opening of the original Spider-Man, which opened on the exact same day five years ago.

If that number sticks, it will have topped the previous opening day record set last year by Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, which opened with $55.8 million and wound up setting a new opening weekend record with $135 million, an amount that Spider-Man 3 is very likely to surpass by Sunday.

However, analysts are saying that the movie would face fierce competition from five other successful movies whose third installments will be released during this summer. In this third episode of Spider Man, Peter Parker will be seen fighting with him inner demons as spiderman at the same time he get a bit cold feet as a new girl appears in the scene, Gwen Stacy.

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