'Spider-Man 2' breaks box office records

Posted Thursday, July 1, 2004 at 2:32 PM Central

by John Couture

Spider-Man 2 has been in theaters only one day and already it's setting new box office records. On Wednesday, the sequel took in $40.5 million, a record for largest overall opening day, eclipsing the original Spider-Man's $39.4 million opening Friday, and largest Wednesday take, besting last year's Lord of the Rings: Return of the King's $34.5 million.