‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Tops Box Office in Seventh Weekend, Exceeds Projections Amidst Winter Weather
With no end in sight, it appears as though Spider-man: No Way Home tops the box office in its seventh weekend; exceeding many projections amidst the winter weather invading much of the country.
Spider-Man truly appears to be unstoppable.
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Despite one week spent in second place to the newly debuting revamp of the iconic horror series, Scream, the MCU has once again stood upon the mountaintop as Spider-Man: No Way Home completed its seventh weekend topping the box office.
The freezing winter weather that many experts projected to hinder the film’s continued reign didn’t stand a chance against the three iconic Spider-Man returns, as the film added another $11 Million to its domestic box office total to bring the film to an astounding $735.9 Million.
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The movie is inching ever closer to Avatar’s $760.5 Million, Spider-Man: No Way Home has now firmly established itself as the fourth highest-grossing film at the domestic box office ever.
Let’s put that statistic into context though, shall we?
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What is perhaps so easily overlooked for the MCU epic is that it was released amidst a global COVID-19 pandemic, a reality that has nearly crippled the theater industry as an entity for the last two years.
No film of the past two years had ever been able to surpass $100 Million in its opening weekend, let alone reach the $1 Billion global benchmark that Spider-Man: No Way Home has already surpassed.
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The closest pandemic era release of the highest-grossing domestic box office list would be Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings; whose $224.5 Million is more than doubled of what Spider-Man: No Way Home has achieved in just over a month in theaters.
Yet, as Spider-Man: No Way Home tops the box office in its seventh weekend, one has to question how long the latest MCU installment can go unchallenged?
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The answer is unknowable, but it is entirely feasible for the latest film in the MCU’s Spider-Man saga to continue up the list of the greatest performers at the domestic box office.
