SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME Swings Past $800 Million; MATRIX RESURRECTIONS Underwhelms After Dismal B- CinemaScore

SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME Swings Past $800 Million; MATRIX RESURRECTIONS Underwhelms After Dismal B- CinemaScore

There's good news for Spider-Man: No Way Home at the global box office as the Sony/Marvel Studios movie hits another benchmark, but not so much for The Matrix Resurrections as it looks set to flop.

By JoshWilding - Dec 23, 2021 02:12 PM EST
Filed Under: No Way Home
Source: Deadline

There's no beating Spider-Man: No Way Home and with a $27.8 million Wednesday, and the web-slinger managed to fend off competition from new releases like The Matrix Resurrections, The King's Man, and Sing 2. The latter nabbed second place with $8 million, while the latest instalment of The Matrix franchise was in third place with a disappointing $6.4 million.

Had the movie not been made available to HBO Max subscribers at no extra charge, this could be a totally different story, but there's no chance it would have ever rivalled the latest Spider-Man movie.

This is evident from overseas takings; opening in 49 additional markets yesterday after initially debuting in 4, its opening day was a disappointing $6.6 million for a current international total of $18.9 million. It is too soon to call The Matrix Resurrections a flop? No. In additional bad news, a dismal B- CinemaScore shows that moviegoers aren't too happy with what they saw, either, meaning word of mouth is not going to be good heading into the holiday weekend. The Matrix received an A-.

Here's what we said in our latest review: "A wholly unnecessary epilogue to The Matrix trilogy, Resurrections retreads old ground, delivers mediocre action, and proves itself a tough pill to swallow despite a decent enough love story that, alone, isn't enough to justify revisiting this franchise. Time for a reboot."

The good news keeps on coming for Spider-Man: No Way Home, which has now racked up $813.9 million at the global box office, with $457.4 million overseas and $356.5 million in North America. $1 billion is right around the corner, and this character is now one of the MCU's biggest draws like Iron Man before him.

Will you be heading to the movie theater this weekend?

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MuadDib
MuadDib - 12/23/2021, 2:40 PM
I get that Matrix 4 may not be perfect in every way, but it’s FREE on HBOMAX.

FREE

Pretty sure that will impact the BO numbers
Moriakum
Moriakum - 12/23/2021, 2:54 PM
@MuadDib - It's not free in the rest of the world, and it's also flopping. Look at the Godzilla vs Kong BO, HBO Max can't be an excuse.
santoanderson
santoanderson - 12/23/2021, 3:04 PM
@MuadDib - Bingo. I watched Matrix Resurrections on HBO Max last night. If that wasn’t an option, I would have seen it in the theater… and regretted it.
dragon316
dragon316 - 12/23/2021, 3:25 PM
@Moriakum - compared to scarlet said black widow would have done better if it wasn’t Disney little later
WruceBayne
WruceBayne - 12/23/2021, 3:55 PM
@MuadDib - that’s the only reason I didn’t go see it at the movies.
grif
grif - 12/23/2021, 2:43 PM
VictorAlonzo
VictorAlonzo - 12/23/2021, 3:37 PM
@Waddles - 😂. You just made my day.
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 12/23/2021, 2:51 PM
1.1 billion by Monday
incredibleTalk
incredibleTalk - 12/23/2021, 2:51 PM
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 12/23/2021, 2:52 PM
When I said No Way Home had to get near a billion very quickly to cross it, this is what I meant. Can even see it cross it by the end of the year now.

As for Matrix, I guess it never really was any competition. It's free on HBO after all.
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 12/23/2021, 3:08 PM
@bkmeijer - it’ll cross it Saturday is my guess, this weekend for sure. It is slowing down big time after that but if I’m right, 1.1 billion in two weekends, that is 600, then 500 by the next Sunday then let’s see… I don’t necessarily think it’ll make 400 by next Sunday, like, here comes the huge movie, huge 3rd weekend drop. Endgame went 1.2 billion, 1.1 billion, 300 million. STEEEEEP 3rd weekend drop, what with Godzilla and pikachu taking eyes off it in Asian box office, so the last like 5 weeks of the 2 months were a slow crawl past avatar. Well we ain’t expecting exact parallels what with no China and no big movies next weekend UNLESS Sing 2 surprises this weekend, or people just drop off. But my guess is by 3rd Sunday you got an extra 250 million, so 1.35 billion worldwide, and hopefully still crawl past avengers 1’s 1.519 billion
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 12/23/2021, 6:08 PM
@TheWalkingCuban - what about Christmas though now that it falls in the weekend? Can see people actually wait until the Christmas break next week
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 12/23/2021, 6:22 PM
@bkmeijer - tends to be a good time for blockbusters
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 12/24/2021, 4:14 AM
@TheWalkingCuban - gotcha. Don't expect a drop then, got it
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 12/24/2021, 7:56 AM
@bkmeijer - oh def a drop, (600 mill last weekend, 500 mill this whole week), just not some steep drop. Next week won’t have 80 to 27 million dollar days, it’ll be much lower, so between the week days and the weekend, it may add another 200 plus. If it reached 300 more I’ll be pleasantly surprised. And fourth week comes to a crawl, MAYbe another 100. After that it stays in theaters what 2 more months? Crawling past milestones or not depending on where it’s at. But. Since I see another 3 in the above guesses, it will probably end up adding 400 million more to what it makes this Monday, which is 1.1, hence, I expect it to top at least 1.5 billion. 1.520 tops avengers’ 1.519, I’ll be content with that. All this, without China. With that it could’ve passed 2 billion, since each of Tom’s Spider-Man movies made more than the last there
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 12/24/2021, 8:53 AM
@TheWalkingCuban - if this tops Age of Ultron, then I'll never underestimate the power of Spider-Man ever again
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 12/24/2021, 8:55 AM
@bkmeijer - 1.405 billion (and change, for Spidey to top it), that’s certainly a goal, it’ll then officially be the first non avengers cbm in the top 4. I’m hoping top 3!
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 12/23/2021, 2:53 PM
@McMurdo just wanted to tag you for research purposes. Does this new ruffle your feathers?
noahthegrand
noahthegrand - 12/23/2021, 2:54 PM
A “B-“ is dismal? What are you Josh, my mom back when I was in high school?
TopBoy
TopBoy - 12/23/2021, 2:59 PM
@noahthegrand - For cinema scores a “B-“ is close to the lowest score you can get.
Moriakum
Moriakum - 12/23/2021, 3:01 PM
@noahthegrand - For CinemaScore a B- really is dismal.
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