As part of Sony's celebration of Columbia Pictures' 100th anniversary, every live-action Spider-Man movie is swinging back into theaters.
Dropping every Monday as part of the studio's "Spider-Mondays," we've seen over the past 5 weeks that there's a real appetite among moviegoers to see the wall-crawler back on the big screen.
Unfortunately, Spider-Man: Homecoming webbed up the lowest box office haul to date with a disappointing $285,000 opening day. With 466 theaters in the U.S. screening the movie, that works out to a far from amazing $612 per theater average.
Some will likely jump on this news to tear into the MCU, forgetting that Marvel Studios actually saved Spidey back in 2017 (following his memorable debut the year prior in Captain America: Civil War).
Understandably, there's less interest in seeing Tom Holland's Spider-Man back on the big screen because he's really not been gone that long. Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy and even The Amazing Spider-Man movies have a sense of nostalgia around them which this reboot - which is only seven years old - simply doesn't.
There are also likely a lot of younger Spider-Man fans who never got to see Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield do their thing as Peter Parker in a theater before these re-releases.
Still, for context, it's important to note that Spidey's other movies opened significantly higher than this one (the first number is their opening day and the second is what they've earned since).
- Spider-Man: $683,000/$946,000
- Spider-Man 2: $809,000/$1.1 million
- Spider-Man 3: $760,000/$1 million
- The Amazing Spider-Man: $511,000/$694,000
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2: $500,000/$676,000
Spider-Man: Homecoming made $880.2 million when it opened in 2017 and has a 92% Rotten Tomatoes score.
The movie stars Tom Holland as Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Michael Keaton as Adrian Toomes/Vulture, Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man, Marisa Tomei as May Parker, Jon Favreau as Happy Hogan, Zendaya as Michelle "MJ" Jones, Jacob Batalon as Ned Leeds, and Laura Harrier as Liz Allan.
Next up for the re-release treatment? Spider-Man: Far From Home on May 27 and Spider-Man: No Way Home on June 3.
Thrilled by his experience with the Avengers, young Peter Parker returns home to live with his Aunt May. Under the watchful eye of mentor Tony Stark, Parker starts to embrace his newfound identity as Spider-Man. He also tries to return to his normal daily routine -- distracted by thoughts of proving himself to be more than just a friendly neighborhood superhero. Peter must soon put his powers to the test when the evil Vulture emerges to threaten everything that he holds dear.