 "Spider-Man" became the first film to pass the $100,000,000 mark in a single weekend, even when adjusting for inflation, with its $114,844,116 mark establishing a new opening weekend record.The gross surpassed the previous record holder's "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" $90,000,000 opening; on this, Rick Lyman of "The New York Times" wrote "while industry executives had expected a strong opening for the film because there was little competition in the marketplace and prerelease polling indicated intense interest from all age groups, no one predicted that "Spider-Man" would surpass the "Harry Potter" record.