This topic has been brought up a lot this summer with The Mummy and Apes releasing, so I decided to open a thread for this.   Coming into 2001, the OW record had been held by The Lost World for over 3 years with 72M, Phantom Menace would have definitely broken the record if it opened on a Friday, but it had a Wednesday opening and did 64M over Fri-Sun proper. We didn't have any movies approaching the 60M OW mark in that 1997 to 2000 stretch.    Then it all changed in 2000. We