Friday, June 8, 2007

Disney, Sony Spat Shows Hollywood's Lax Accounting of Box-Office Receipts

(Bloomberg) -- Walt Disney Co. last week said the
third ``Pirates of the Caribbean'' set a box-office record for a
movie opening. Not so, Sony Corp. responded less than two hours
later: Its ``Spider-Man 3'' is the champ.

Disney said ``Pirates'' set a six-day global record of $404
million, topping the $383 million of ``Spider-Man 3.'' Sony said
Disney included a seventh day of sales and that on that basis,
``Spider-Man 3'' took in $418 million.


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