While Omicron continues to cause concern across the globe, it appears there's no stopping Spider-Man: No Way Home. This weekend, the Sony Pictures/Marvel Studios movie earned $33 million in North America, a 41% drop from the previous weekend. That's actually a better result than many box office analysts initially predicted (which was somewhere around the $30 million mark).
By the end of today, Spider-Man: No Way Home will have raised its domestic total to $668.7 million. That makes it the sixth-highest grossing movie at the North American box office in front of James Cameron's Titanic, and it only needs an additional $10 million to top Avengers: Infinity War's $678.8 million to take the #5 spot. That should happen quite easily over the next week or so.
Globally, the threequel has now passed the $1.5 billion mark with a total $1.53 billion in ticket sales.
It's the eighth-biggest movie at the worldwide box office, topping the likes of Avengers: Age of Ultron and Frozen II. Next up? The Lion King at $1.65 billion and Jurassic World at $1.66 billion. However, with the pandemic raging and no China release, we doubt it tops Avengers: Infinity War's $2 billion haul.
Regardless, this is an amazing result, and cements Spider-Man as the most popular superhero in the world. You have to believe that means Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures will continue working together, though how much longer the latter will be able to resist using the wall-crawler in those spinoffs is hard to say. Of course, they have a couple of non-Tom Holland options these days!
How many times have you watched Spider-Man: No Way Home on the big screen?
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