"Spider-Man: No Way Home" on track to earn $1 billion

PanARMENIAN.Net - “Spider-Man: No Way Home’s” box office prowess knows no bounds. The latest entry in the Tom Holland-led trilogy is set to become the biggest movie of the year worldwide after Friday, December 24, Variety reports.

It’s set to cross the $1 billion mark on Christmas Day. At 11 days, it would be the second-fastest to hit that milestone (behind 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame” at five days and tied with 2018’s “Avengers: Infinity War”). It would also be the first theatrical release of the pandemic to join the billion-dollar club — even without China, the largest box office market in the world.

“No Way Home” made $29.3 million domestically on Thursday, bringing its seven-day gross to $385.8 million — the third-highest seven-day gross of all time, the highest seven-day gross in the “Spider-Man” franchise, and the second-highest seven-day gross ever for December and for a superhero film.

The Thursday earning is the third-highest Thursday gross of December of all time, and the highest Thursday take for Sony, the “Spider-Man” franchise and for a superhero pic.

Internationally, it brought in $32.2 million on Thursday, bumping its overseas total to $490.2 million and global haul to $876.0 million.

“The Matrix Resurrections,” meanwhile, made $6.4 million on Wednesday and $4.1 million on Thursday from 3,552 venues in North America for a two-day total of $10.5 million. Picking up 20 years after 2003’s “The Matrix Revolutions,” the sci-fi adventure is expected to finish the holiday weekend with $40 million to $50 million. If it hits the higher end of estimates, “Resurrections” would beat “Dune” ($41 million) to become Warner Bros.’ top opening of the year.

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