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‘Spider-Man’ cont lifting anemic N.America box office
By Cynthia Montojo
DOMESTIC box office in November and December 2021 was down 32 percent from 2019 period, said David Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research describing industry’s overall picture as “mostly wreckage” except for “Spider-Man,” whose earnings accounted for 46 percent of the total.
After rescuing Hollywood from otherwise paltry year-end numbers, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” continued to soar over the weekend, leading North American box office with an estimated take of $33 million.
Sony’s superhero sequel has now accumulated worldwide ticket sales of $1.42 billion in four weeks out, helping brighten mostly pallid picture for Covid-slammed industry. Its domestic gross of $669 million places it six “Spider-Man: No Way Home” unwrapped the best Christmas gift of all, becoming the first pandemic-era movie to cross $1 billion at the global box office.
Sony’s comic-book epic has eclipsed milestone in near-record 12 days, tying with 2015’s “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” as the third-fastest film to reach the billion-dollar benchmark. Only 2018’s “Avengers: Infinity War” and 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame” were quicker, smashing the coveted tally in 11 and five days, respectively.
It’s impressive “Spider-Man: No Way Home” managed to blow past $1 billion in ticket sales worldwide given rapidly spreading omicron variant of COVID-19. It makes Tom Holland’s Marvel superhero adventure the only movie since 2019’s “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” to surpass $1 billion globally. No other Hollywood film has come close to nearing those box office revenues in the last two years surpassing “Titanic” and “Jurassic World.”
Prior to Spidey’s reign, MGM’s James Bond sequel “No Time to Die,” which grossed $774 million globally, stood as highest-grossing Hollywood film of 2021 and the pandemic. As the first movie to reach $1 billion worldwide, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” took the earthly throne from another box-office behemoth, China’s “The Battle at Lake Changjin” ($902 million), to officially cement its place as the year’s highest-grossing film worldwide. It’s also notable that “No Way Home” surpassed that high-watermark without playing in China, which is currently the world’s biggest moviegoing market.
At the domestic box office, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” had another dominating weekend, soaring high above the competition during a crowded Christmas corridor.
The newest “Spider-Man” adventure collected $81 million from 4,336 North American theaters over the weekend. To put that figure in perspective, only select COVID-era releases have managed to generate that kind of coinage in their entire theatrical runs, much less in their second weekend of release. “Spider-Man: No Way Home” also managed to do so at a time when several new movies — “The Matrix Resurrections,” “Sing 2” and “The King’s Man,” among others — opened nationwide to decent (and not-so-decent) ticket sales.
It brings the film’s ten-day total to a mammoth $467 million at the domestic box office. That tally is more than double the next highest-grossing movie in Disney and Marvel’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” which earned a mighty $224 million domestically.
At the international box office, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” added $121.4 million over the weekend and has made $587 million to date, bringing its global revenues to $1.05 billion.
With Covid-19 surging, older moviegoers and families remain hesitant to return to theaters.
So even results of Universal’s animated musical “Sing 2” second for the weekend at $12 million — were considered disappointing. Its worldwide take is down 68 percent from “Sing 1,” Gross said, whereas such second-episode animation sequels generally drop just 8 percent.
Also seen as disappointing were results for Universal’s new “The 355,” which placed third but took in just $4.8 million for the Friday-to-Sunday period.
Analysts said the female-led spy thriller starring Jessica Chastain, Penelope Cruz and Lupita Nyong’o suffered from weak reviews and continuing hesitation by older female moviegoers.
Fourth spot went to 20th Century’s “The King’s Man,” at $3.3 million. The “Kingsman” prequel stars Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton, Rhys Ifans and Matthew Goode.
In fifth was “American Underdog” from Lionsgate, at $2.4 million. Zachary Levi stars in the crowd-pleasing true story of Kurt Warner, the onetime grocery store worker who became a National Football League MVP.
Rounding out the top 10 were “The Matrix: Resurrections” ($1.9 million), “West Side Story” ($1.4 million), “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” ($1.1 million), “Licorice Pizza” ($1 million), “House of Gucci” ($632,000).
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