they did not make money, they made rocks. You had to pay 5 rocks to enter the movie. They ended up getting 4,365,824 rocks. That was transformed into us dollars and you times it by 3. So they ended up making around 13 million dollas.
The movie Watchmen made over $55 million opening weekend. Even though it was predicted to do make more money.
$4.7M from 2,730 locations.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone made $90.3 million during opening weekend. It held the record for the highest-opening weekend until it was beaten by Spider-Man the following May.
Star Wars
The Dark Knight it made 158,411,483
in it's opening weekend it made 21 million dollars
the dark night
Gone with the Wind. In 1939, "Gone with the Wind" made $945,000 it's first weekend. Even though it was released in 1939, those were advanced ticket road show events. It was not put into wide release until 1941. I believe "Spider-Man" (2002) was the first to gross $100 million on opening weekend.
800,000,000
Only the opening weekend.
Spiderman in 2002.
The opening box office for the movie "The House Bunny" was second place on its opening weekend. It landed in $14,533,702 (30% of its revenue) domestically.