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Twelve other films did better at the US box office on their opening weekends than did “[tag]The DaVinci Code[/tag]” ($77 million, domestic), but worldwide, it faired better … achieving #2 status at $224 million. “It could not beat Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, which made $253 million in its first weekend last year.”  However it may have achieved #1 in overseas sales … with $147million non-US.

Here are the breakdowns of sales of the other US openings from BoxOfficeMojo.com (http://www.boxofficemojo.com)

1 Spider-Man $114,844,116
2 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith $108,435,841
3 Shrek 2 $108,037,878
4 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire $102,685,961
5 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban $93,687,367
6 The Matrix Reloaded $91,774,413
7 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone $90,294,621
8 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets $88,357,488
9 Spider-Man 2 $88,156,227
10 X2: X-Men United $85,558,731
11 The Passion of the Christ $83,848,082
12 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones $80,027,814

Over The Hedge pulled in about $37.2 million, snaring the #2 spot for the weekend, and the #5 spot for openings thus far in 2006.

For openings in 2006, TDVC faired only about $9 million better than Ice Age 2.

“Sony’s exit polling indicated that 53 percent of the audience was under 30 years old and 52 percent was female. Nearly half of moviegoers had not read the book.”

The question is … will it have staying power …

[tags]movie, opening, sales, box office[/tags]