Biggest opening weekend? Check. Biggest opening, period? Check. Biggest international release? Check.

But let’s add some insult to critical injury, please: Can you guess the two top-grossing theaters on the movie’s opening-day? L.A.’s gigantic ArcLight and … Sony’s Lincoln Square theater. Take that, Alice Tully!

If anything, the poor reviews only appeared to stir up more activity, like a stick poking a wasp nest. The film's earnings in Manhattan boil down to a $152,490 per screen average in New York City, five times the average in the rest of the country. Manhattanites added an astounding $1,829,875 to the movie's total cume.

"There'll be a fourth and a fifth and sixth and a seventh," Sony Pictures Entertainment co-chair Amy Pascal told Daily Variety. "As many stories as Peter Parker has to tell, we'll do sequels." Hooray!

Psst …Spider-Man 3 was not the only movie to opening this weekend. There was Manhattan's basement-dweller, Lucky You, a romantic comedy starring Eric Bana and Drew Barrymore. Although it played in eight theaters, it still did not win the counter-programming sweepstakes in New York City. Sarah Polley’s Away From Her, the Keri Russell vehicle Waitress and star-studded Paris Je T’Aime all made more money playing in two theaters, each with a healthy per screen average of over $18,000.

I guess they got some good reviews.