Box office: SpiderManNoWayHome debuts to jaw-dropping $253 million
That’s the takeaway this weekend after Sony’s comic book adventure “” crushed box office expectations, generating a mammoth $253 million from 4,336 theaters in North America.
Overseas, the latest Spidey outing has collected $334.2 million from 60 international markets for a global tally of $587.2 million. It ranks as the third-biggest worldwide opening weekend ever.Cinematic Universe, is already popping champagne. Holland is the third actor to portray Marvel’s friendly neighborhood Spider-Man after Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield. Jon Watts, who oversaw the two other Holland-led movies, returned to direct. The cast includes Zendaya as MJ, Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange and Marisa Tomei as Aunt May, as well as Alfred Molina , Willem Dafoe , Jamie Fox , Thomas Haden Church and Rhys Ifans .
Box office experts believe there’s one reason why “Spider-Man: No Way Home” is turbo-charging the box office: superheroes sell. In other words, the comic book adventure’s performance doesn’t reverse fortunes for the beleaguered movie theater business. Rather, industry insiders believe it punctuates the reality that multiplexes have been — and will continue to be — more reliant than ever on big-budget spectacles, particularly of the superhero variety.
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