Another week, another set of box office milestones to have fallen at the feet of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, continuing what’s been a regularly recurring theme ever since the multiversal blockbuster first hit theaters over a month ago.
Tom Holland’s web-slinger may have lost his box office crown to Ghostface’s return in slasher sequel Scream, but a running domestic tally in excess of $700 million has secured Spidey’s status as the star of the fourth highest-grossing domestic hit of all-time.
On top of that, No Way Home has become just the eighth movie in history to hit $1.6 billion globally, and it may well have enough gas left in the tank to bring in the additional $71 million required to pass Jon Favreau’s The Lion King and Jurassic World to become cinema’s sixth-biggest hit ever.
No Way Home can now call itself Mexico’s most commercially successful film, too, after surpassing $72 million in the country, as well as joining the elite band of IMAX releases to have brought in $100 million. Five weeks on and we’re still singing the box office praises of the latest Spider-Man outing, and you can bet there’s going to be another couple of benchmarks set by the time Jon Watts’ threequel makes its exit and heads to home video next month.
Published: Jan 16, 2022 01:13 pm