User blog:Ceauntay/Heroes: The Ultimate Power has biggest Wednesday Opening Of-All Time With $82.5 Million

Heroes: The Ultimate Power muscles to a monster opening on Wednesday night earning $82.5 million, that's the best Wednesday opening yet. Looking back in 2010 with The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, it previously hold the record with $68.5 million from it's Wednesday opening.

After it's strong $33.3 million gross from late Tuesday night showings, this is a very strong start for the third installment franchise, even though it slightly opened more than the second film, The New Heroes, made back in November of last year to $82.2 million. It only perform $.3 million more.

Heroes: The Ultimate Power's opening day is now the third best single day gross in history, only behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 ($91.07 million) and Jane Hoop Elementary: The Final Rush - Part 2 ($91.02 million). Now the pic will be reaching the $180 million mark all the way through until the following Sunday night.

Coming far behind Heroes: The Ultimate Power is the debut of DreamWorks Animation pic, Turbo, featuring the voice of Ryan Reynolds, to a slow start. Earning $5.5 million on Wednesday, the pic and Heroes: The Ultimate Power both beat holdover Despicable Me 2 as it fell to No. 3 to $5.2 million, bringing it's total to $246 million fifteen days after it's release, and is already close to pass the first film, which made $251 million.

Turbo is now heading for $35 million opening by Sunday night. However, both Turbo and Heroes open on Wednesday this weekend, but other films that are opening this weekend are R.I.P.D and Red, and they won't open until Friday.