Spider-Man had one other dominant weekend.
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Spider-Man: No Way Home did not simply defeat villains from previous Spider-Man movies. It additionally toppled the field workplace. It’s the primary movie to debut within the pandemic to hit $1 billion all over the world.
It solely took 12 days to hit that mark, the movie’s official Twitter account posted on Sunday. The movie, which stars Tom Holland as Spider-Man, together with Zendaya and Benedict Cumberbatch, has received rave evaluations from critics and followers alike for the way it incorporates parts of previous Spider-Man movies from the Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield period.
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Domestically, Spider-Man: No Way Home is the top-grossing movie within the US at $467.3 million, simply topping Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (one other Marvel Cinematic Universe movie), which has raked in $224.5 million, in accordance with BoxOfficeMojo.com.
Comic e book movies proceed to dominate the theaters, which have handled the pandemic conserving some customers away and studios releasing a few of their movies on streaming providers (just like the Matrix Resurrections, which solely grossed $12 million on the field workplace over the weekend however was additionally accessible on HBO Max). Beyond Spider-Man and Shang-Chi, the subsequent highest-grossing movies are Venom: Let There Be Carnage and Black Widow, with F9: The Fast Saga rounding out the highest 5.
