![]() Independence Day earned $100 million in its first six days and $50 million over the Fri-Sun portion in July of 1996 on its way to a $307 million domestic cume. That’s a 6.7x weekend-to-final multiplier, which is still one of the leggier runs for a relative mega-opener over the last 25 years. ![]() A film like Terminator 2, Jurassic Park and/or Independence Day was till rare enough to make Phantom Menace an automatic event.Īs such, despite mixed-positive reviews and divisive fan reception, the Lucas-directed The Phantom Menace legged out from a $64 million Fri-Sun/$105 million Wed-Sun domestic debut to $431 million by the end of the summer. And while The Phantom Menace debuted in early May just after The Matrix and The Mummy, films of the scale, size and scope of Star Wars Episode One were still not par for the course. Save for maybe the first two Superman films and Raiders of the Lost Ark, the fantasy tentpole movies that might challenge Star Wars for supremacy ( Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Batman) didn’t arrive until after the trilogy had run its course. ![]() It should be noted that the first three Star Wars movies and The Phantom Menace arrived in theaters when a movie like Star Wars was entirely not the norm. ![]()
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