Looks Like I Spoke Too Soon

No sooner do I write about how defensive, silly, and basically juvenile Disney is regarding their "not having the biggest weekend ever" problem, but then Sony Pictures goes and does something that makes Disney look like Mother Teresa by comparison. 

Thanks to Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood Daily, I give you this turd on a plate:

"While Disney and the filmmakers of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End deserve their due on a remarkable opening worldwide, there are some irregularities in their claim regarding record-setting. There are at least two territories, Italy and France, where Buena Vista International opened the film on Tuesday --  in essence adding a seventh day of  grosses into Pirates' “six day record”. While there may or may not be other territories that opened prior to Wednesday, we believe that as more and more day-and-date releases enter the marketplace, there should be a consistent standard in international box office reporting. This issue is larger than an opening week box office statistic. For the record, Spider-Man 3 grossed $418.1M in its first seven days of release worldwide with $256.7M generated from territories overseas and $161.4M accumulated in box office receipts from North America."

I'm all for equality in bookkeeping, but does it really matter if someone in Italy saw Pirates on the sixth day or the seventh?  Even the accounting department couldn't give a crap about this one...  It all hits the same country, the same film, and the same quarter and shareholders aren't missing a dime.

Let it go people.  You are arguing about records that no one cares about - not even box office freaks like me.

UPDATE: David Poland chimes in, and says it better than I ever could:

Sony is acting likely a whiny infant ("We don't like their German numbers ... wah wah!") because their ego about the biggest worldwide opening is tweaked.  There is no other excuse for the outburst, as there is not a single dime of revenue to be derived for Spidey 3 by Pirates 3's worldwide opening being diminished ... just ego.