Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull blasted off Thursday
night with signs that it could overtake last year's Spider-Man 3 and set
a record for a box-office debut. The Spider-Man sequel opened on a
non-holiday weekend last May with $151.6 million. The best Memorial Day results
were posted last year by Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End with
$153 million. Paramount figured that midnight shows of Crystal Skull in
the U.S. Wednesday night brought in about $4.5 million. The studio did not
release any full-day estimates for Thursday but rival studios keeping an eye on
ticket sales figured that the film probably took in $25-30 million.
23/05/2008
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