In North America, "Spider-Man 3" is the 58th-highest-grossing film, the third-highest-grossing film of the "Spider-Man" series, the third-highest-grossing film distributed by Sony/Columbia, and the highest-grossing 2007 film. The film sold an estimated 48,914,300 tickets. It was released in 4,252 theaters (about 10,300 screens) on Friday, May 4, 2007. It set an opening- and single-day record with $59.8 million (both were first surpassed by "The Dark Knight"). This included $10 million from midnight showings. "Spider-Man 3" then set an opening-weekend record with $151.1 million (first surpassed by "The Dark Knight"), a record for the weekend per-theater average with $35,540 per theater (first surpassed by ""), and an IMAX opening-weekend record with $4.8 million (first surpassed by "The Dark Knight"). The film set record Friday and Sunday grosses and achieved the largest cumulative gross through its second, third, and fourth day of release (all were first surpassed by "The Dark Knight"). It also set a record Saturday gross (surpassed by "Marvel's The Avengers").