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“Spider Man” Shoots for $500 Million in the US Today After Another Record Breaker of $33 Million for Wednesday, Just One Week After Release

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“Spider Man: Brand New Day” opened one week ago today.

Remember those days? “The Odyssey” was what everyone was talking about.

So much has changed!

Today, “Spider Man” will cross the $500 million mark. Yes, I am telling the truth. While wars rage, Donald Trump has a new toupee, the Yankees cannot win two games in a row, “Spider Man” has just plowed ahead as if nothing else mattered.

So where do we go from here? Hasn’t everyone seen this movie by now?

Maybe not. By Monday, it will most certainly be at $600 or $700 million, Maybe more! Who knows!

Remember, it’s just one week. “Spider Man” has weeks to go!

Meantime, after I pointed out that Steve Lacy’s end credit song “Oh Yeah” was not on the charts at all, it’s finally arrived at number 35 on iTunes. The song has just under 10 million streams on Spotify. Not a blockbuster, but coming along…And yes, it does sound a lot like Gary Numan’s “Are Friends Electric?”

And what about “The Odyssey”? It’s not chopped liver. They’re at $422 million as of today, so $500 million isn’t far off. The day to day drop is almost nothing. Homer, you know, wasn’t horsing around!

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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