The figures released by box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations showed the mutant hero blasting the blockbuster season off to a super-high earning start.Its takings dwarfed the previous record, set last year by Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," which took 135.6 million in its first three days, according to the movie industry newspaper Variety.
The newspaper also calculated the single-day takings for "Spider-Man 3" on Friday at 59 million, beating the "Pirates" record of 55.8 million in July 2006.
Among the other top grossing movies in North America this weekend, "Spider-Man 3" eclipsed the 5.7 million for teen thriller "Disturbia" which it knocked into second place after three weeks at the top.
The latest instalment in the fantasy action series sees Tobey Maguire as the web-shooting hero battle his arch-foe the Green Goblin while juggling a rival love interest to his high school sweetheart Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst).
Clad in a new-look black spider suit -- the result of tainting by a malignant glob of protoplasm from outer space -- he also faces high-octane combat with new villains, Venom and Sandman.
"Fracture," a legal police drama starring Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling, rose to third place with takings of 3.5 million dollars, followed by another teen thriller, "The Invisible," with 3.125 million.
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