Spider-Man: No Way Home more than doubled its expected opening gross over the weekend. The Sony picture collected a whopping $122 million on opening (Friday) at 4,336 theaters across the U.S. On the following Saturday, box office sales dropped by 39.4%. However, Peter Parker was still able to captivate audiences, pulling in a domestic gross of $73.9 million. The third day of opening was just as phenomenal, collecting $64.2 million in one day.
Come Monday morning, Sony reported an impressive $260.1 million domestic opening weekend, while the film made $340.8 million internationally, totaling a worldwide gross of $600.9 million. These are pretty insane numbers for a world that has been tousling with the inconsistencies of a global pandemic and the onset of a new variant of the virus.
The high number establishes Spider-Man: No Way Home as the second biggest film opening since Disney’s Avengers: Endgame, which opened April 2019 in 4,662 theaters at $357.1 million domestically.
The box office for Spider-Man: No Way Home is far from its predecessors, Spider-Man: Homecoming ($117M) ranks 44 and Spider-Man: Far From Home ($92.6M) ranks 72 on the list of top opening weekends. The Tobey Maguire and Sam Raimi franchise cracked the record opening weekend list at No. 24 with Spider-Man 3 ($151M).
Spider-Man: No Way Home did manage to beat out four films from the Star Wars franchise to become the film with the top opening weekend in December and film with the top opening weekend during Winter.
The Jon Watts directed pic opened against the second week of Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, and smaller newcomer Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley. Meanwhile, month-old films Encanto and Ghostbusters: Afterlife are still contracting a slice of box office revenue. Sony was right to release the third installment of the Tom Holland led Spider-Man series ahead of its Christmas competition.
On Dec. 22 alone, moviegoers will have the option to watch The Matrix Resurrections, Sing 2, The Tender Bar, and The King’s Man. Christmas Day will see released the Denzel Washington directed romance A Journal for Jordan and the sports biopic American Underdog.
