Spider-Man 3 stumbled out of the box office gate this weekend with a meager take of $148 million, barely topping
Disturbia, which held strong at $5.7 million for 2nd place. The thriller gave the web crawler a major run for the money and fell just short of a fifth straight week atop the charts.
Sony execs knew trouble was brewing when
Spider-Man 3 made
only $59 million on its opening day Friday, barely topping the opening day record set last year by
Pirates of the Caribbean 2.
Spider-Man 3 joins other box office disappointments of late including
Grindhouse, The Condemned and
Kickin' It Old Skool. It's hard to say yet exactly what the final fallout will be from America's shunning of this once proud icon, but we can expect a few pink slips around the Sony offices come Monday. This weekend's take obviously squashes rumors of a fourth film, likely spelling the end of Spidey's days swinging across the big screen.