Spider-Man: No Way Home continues to prove that there's still hope for the box office as the Sony Pictures/Marvel Studios threequel has now passed $516.4 million in North America. That means it's topped Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker's $515.2 million haul from 2019, but there's one key difference: that movie took 91 days, while this one achieved that feat in 12.
With yesterday's $28.4 million international haul, Spider-Man: No Way Home's overseas total has risen to $644.9 million to take its global cume to $1.16 billion. Spider-Man: Far From Home grossed $1.13 billion in 2019, making this the wall-crawler's highest-grossing solo adventure to date.
In other box office news, there's still nothing positive to say about The Matrix Resurrections, which has earned only $24.5 million after a week of playing in theaters and on HBO Max, and is destined to go down as another big budget blockbuster in 2020 that's flopped due to the pandemic and an apparent lack of interest from moviegoers. Overall, it's not been a good year for Warner Bros., so here's hoping they're happy with that streaming service's current subscription numbers.
Spider-Man: No Way Home, however, will soon become the biggest domestic earner since Avengers: Endgame and has also beaten No Time to Die at the international box office to become the highest-grossing movie of 2021 overseas. The sky appears to be the limit for the webbed wonder, and chances are it's not done yet...all without securing a release date in China, of course.
As well as earning rave reviews from critics, Spider-Man: No Way Home has received glowing praise from moviegoers. Sony has yet to factor any spoilers into the marketing campaign, and you have to believe once they do, there could be another surge in interest from casual moviegoers.
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