'Spider-Man' Stays at the Top of the Box Office

Spider-Man: No Way Home just keeps winning at the box office. The film has been out for seven weeks now, and it's taken the first place in all but one of those weeks. It's helped that very new releases have challenged it since the beginning of 2022, but there's no denying that the Marvel movie is one of the biggest hits of all time. Read on for details.

Via Box Office Mojo.

It turned out to be déjà vu all over again at the box office as Sony’s competition-killer, Spider-Man: No Way Home, just kept cruising along as the number one movie in North America with an $11 million haul in its seventh weekend in theaters. With no major new releases during an otherwise sleepy January frame marked by white-out blizzard conditions in the northeast, the top five spots on the domestic front remained unchanged. Meanwhile, overseas, Peter Parker and company soared past the $1 billion mark—and that’s without even playing in the world’s biggest moviegoing market, China.

Snagging first place for the sixth time in its seven-week run, Spider-Man: No Way Home led a lackluster session in theaters, dipping just -21.5% from the previous frame. The PG-13-rated blockbuster earned a $2,993 per-screen average at 3,675 locations. Spidey’s domestic box-office total now stands at $735.9 million, which keeps it in fourth place on the list of the highest-grossing domestic releases of all time. However, it now seems to be well within striking distance of the current third-place holder, Avatar, which pulled in $760.5 million back in 2009. As for the top two spots—currently held by 2019’s Avengers: Endgame ($858.4 million) and 2015’s Star Wars: Episode VII -- The Force Awakens ($936.7 million)—those seem to be safe. Still, pushing past Avatar would be a huge achievement for a film released during the pandemic…or at any time, really. Overseas, the Tom Holland-led superhero mega-hit pushed just past $1 billion over the weekend. Its cumulative global box office is now $1.74 billion.

In the runner-up spot (again) was Paramount’s Scream, which scared up a little under $7.4 million in its third frame—a -39.8% drop-off from the prior weekend. The R-rated “requel” starring franchise mainstays Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, and David Arquette, scored a $2,089 per-screen average in 3,518 theaters. Its total domestic haul after three weeks is $62.1 million, which well surpasses not only the film’s $25 million budget but also the $38.2 million that the previous installment, Scream 4, made during its entire domestic run in 2011. The latest chapter in the meta-fright flick saga has racked up $44.1 million overseas, putting its current worldwide total at $106.2 million. In other words, chances are good that you can expect a sequel to this requel.

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