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Warning: This Article Contains Spoilers for Spider-Man: No Way Home
Perhaps it’s because it’s the holidays and people are itching to sneak out and catch a really wild coaster-ride of an action and adventure movie; or maybe, after nearly two years of a raging worldwide pandemic, the good citizens of the world are starving for something – anything – that can help them escape the usually dependable day-to-day dire prognostications; or it could be that an entire universe of comic book nerds have a hankering to see their favorite Spider-Men meet and greet amongst one another (which each iteration from Raimi on certainly do in this new multiversal flick). Whatever the precise reason may or may not be, one indisputable fact is known among pundits like myself and our web-slinging muchachos over at The Hollywood Reporter (who, credit where credit is due, first reported on this story): Spider-Man: No Way Home is an unstoppable juggernaut that singlehandedly broke almost every box-office record this past weekend upon its anticipated debut. Where I come from, that’s the equivalent of eternal bragging rights, Dear and Constant Reader.
Blasting out of the box-office gate Weapon X-style, the Sony/Marvel joint venture Spider-Man: No Way Home may not want to actually return home after receiving its final weekend tally of profits: The new film – which posits what would happen if our current-day Spider-Man (Tom Holland) traversed the far-flung multiverse and encountered past Spidey’s such as Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield (what, no love for 1970s Spider-Man Nicholas Hammond?) –sat back after a busy holiday weekend and counted a staggering $253 million smackers as its final tally for the U.S. profits. But hold on, True Believers, there’s more: Globally, Peter Parker and friends had what can only be considered a bloody brilliant early Christmas present in the form of $587 million dollars at theaters across good old Terra Firma. These are the sort of numbers that would make Old Man Potter and Ebenezer Scrooge dance a mighty mean jig, indeed.
“This weekend’s historic results, from all over the world and in the face of many challenges, reaffirm the unmatched cultural impact that exclusive theatrical films can have when they are made and marketed with vision and resolve,” exclaimed Sony Motion Picture Group Big Wheel Tom Rothman as he dipped his big toe into his newly minted Money J****** (instead of water, this J****** is all hundred dollar bills; Waka-Waka).
With Spider-Man: No Way Home a resounding success, expect to see more alternate Earth and multiverse shenanigans on the silver screen in the very near future; Excelsior!
